Silicon Prairie News

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

3/27 - NE Creative: MixTape.me, latest project by What Cheer

3/30 - OWH: Movers: Venture based on music buzz, Jimmy Winter of Music Arsenal

3/30 - Life of a Founder: Omaha Workshop Afterthoughts, Jimmy Hendricks of Collar Free

Events of Next Week

4/6 - OWH: Meeting is April 6 for small businesses

Small-business owners can participate in an Economic Town Hall meeting April 6 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the College of Public Affairs and Community Service at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 6001 Dodge St.

Attendees will discuss the impact on local businesses of federal efforts to stimulate the economy. Panelists include Reps. Lee Terry, R-Neb., and Sam Graves, R-Mo., along with Creighton University economist Ernie Goss, George Beattie of the Nebraska Bankers Association and Robert Bernier, assistant business dean at UNO.

Reservations can be made via e-mail to terrytickets@mail.house.gov.

4/7 - Artist Martinez Celaya Returns to UNO

Martínez Celaya – who paints, makes photographs, sculpts and writes – will spend April 6-10 at UNO. He will give a public lecture on Tuesday, April 7, at 6 p.m in the university’s Collaborating Commons in the College of Public Affairs and Community Service Building. The presentation is free and open to the public.

4/9 - SPN: Omaha Tweetup #4...This Thursday!

So folks, it’s that time again!  Be sure to be at Nomad Lounge, this Thursday from 5:30 on for the next Omaha Tweetup! Sponsored this month by BIGOmaha!

WHERE

Nomad Lounge (11th & Jones St., just south of the Old Market)

WHEN

Thursday, April 9th @ 5:30pm

4/10 - Twitter exec, Nebraska native Evan Williams at UNL April 10

Evan Williams, the founder and chief executive of Twitter, will be at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln April 10 for a series of student events.

Plans for Williams' visit to UNL include lunch with representatives of the Raikes School and the University of Nebraska Foundation, followed by a broader discussion with Raikes School and several College of Business Administration students, availability with media, followed by a meeting with College of Journalism and Mass Communications students and an interview for the Campus Voices radio program. These sessions are not open to the public.

Interested Web users can watch Williams' session at the Raikes School live on the Web at http://raikes.unl.edu, and at the Journalism college at http://newsnetnebraska.org.

If you have any additional news or events that you'd like the SPN community to know about, please add it in a comment below (a link, date, time and location would be helpful).