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Taste IT at Upstream West today – we’ll be there. Will you?
We’re looking forward to manning a table at today’s AIM Institute’s annual Taste IT. This year, it’ll be held at at Upstream Brewing Company’s west location, 171st & West Center Road, from 5-7 p.m. Maybe of most interest to our readers, some of which attended Big Omaha, will be the sideshow of pictures that Malone…
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Welcome Danny Schreiber to the SPN team!
It’s with great pleasure that we welcome Danny Schreiber to the Silicon Prairie News team! We’re thrilled to have Danny officially on board to help in continuing to take Silicon Prairie News to the next level!
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SPN highlighted in Metro Magazine
Earlier this month, we were excited to receive coverage in Metro Magazine, a monthly publication covering Omaha’s philanthropic scene. We asked for permission to reprint the article because we think it cleary communicates our story and mission. So, if you haven’t heard about us before, or you’ve been with us since day one (thank you!),…
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SPN interviews Pat Lazure and Rohit Keshwani of WikiCity
We had the opportunity to sit down with Pat Lazure and Rohit Keshwani of WikiCity who shared information about their current project, WikiCity. Founded in late 2008, WikiCity provides unique local content on places, events, and people who would be of interest to those associated with any of its 22,000 U.S. towns. It serves these…
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Our presentation at Infotec09
Last month, Jeff and I were honored to speak at Infotec09, a two-day IT conference held at Qwest Center Omaha. Our talk, “Building Omaha’s Creative Class with Silicon Prairie News,” is embedded below, and preceding it is a write-up from Tim Erickson of the AIM Institute, which was originally posted at blog.infotec.org. Thanks Tim!
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Weekly Wrap Up
Every Friday, we’ll be linking to the previous week’s news that pertains to “SPNers” and listing the upcoming week’s events that pique our interest. News of Last Week 4/3 – NE Creative: Girl Scouts Spirit of Nebraska Website, GoodTwin Design 4/4 – AP: Lincoln, Omaha named to Forbes list of best metros 4/5 – AP:…
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…and we’re back!
So the Silicon Prairie News team is back from a long trip to Austin for the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival. I’m still compiling many of my initial thoughts as the lack of rest and overwhelming number of options to choose from has left us all a little spent. In a few words however, the experience…
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Big Omaha…let’s go!
It’s official! After all the chitter chatter, rumors and talk… The Big Omaha site is live! Shortly after Sarah Lacy came into town last year, we here at SPN decided to take it to the next level by hosting the first ever Big Omaha conference! Big Omaha will bring together the region’s creative class, investors,…
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MVF & SPN partnership
Silicon Prairie News is excited to announce its partnership with Midlands Venture Forum to film and report on future events. SPN will cover its first MVF event this Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Scott Conference Center, when MVF hosts its Networking Dinner, titled “Venture Capital in Underserved Areas.” Nebraska native Lynn Gellermann, founding partner of Adena…