Silicon Prairie News

September 25, 2010 by Dusty Davidson

Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany. read more

1290_5b1b3a24b5_small September 24, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Over the past six weeks, we escaped our usual industry of focus, the tech industry, and put the spotlight on six individuals in our state's burgeoning film industry. The goal of this series, titled "Nebraska Film," was to highlight individuals, companies and organizations who are working hard to grow… read more

1291_d9aa1ecebc_small September 24, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Mentioned this week: - Filming live on Ustream from the Silicon Prairie News office - The Omaha Zombies episode - The real Omaha UFL team: Omaha Nighthawks - Omaha Fashion Week Runway Finale - Big Omaha: Behind the scenes with Malone & Company - Big Omaha Video Series: Scott Harrison of charity: water - Big Omaha Video Series: Roger Fransecky of The Apogee Group - Ryan Downs on Proxibid & his return to Nebraska - Events on Silicon Prairie News read more

September 23, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

We're excited to bring you our twenty-eighth Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Silicon Prairie News (that's us!) and Palisade Systems in Des Moines and… read more

1288_0b2bedc6b2_small September 23, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski

Omaha After debuting our Big Omaha 2010 Video Series on Tuesday with Scott Harrison's moving presentation, we're excited to bring you our second video which features visionary and business leader Roger Fransecky of The Apogee Group. Fransecky's insight, vision and leadership challenge served as a motivating presentation to open our first day of talks on Friday, May 14. We were delighted… read more

1287_7d7e3c292a_small September 23, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Join us at 10 a.m. CDT tomorrow, Friday, September 23, for our live Weekly Wrap Up show on Ustream. We'll be breaking down the articles of the past week and looking ahead to events of next week. And with the first United Football League (UFL) taking place tomorrow night, we'll be celebrating the occasion by wearing two and giving away one Omaha Zombies T-shirt (below). The actual name… read more

1266_f51ccecd05_small September 21, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski

Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're excited to release the first video in the series of presentations from Big Omaha 2010, which was held at KANEKO, May 12-15. We chose to begin with one of the most powerful talks from the event, that of charity: water founder Scott Harrison. Harrison's presentation was not only emotionally moving but it was a convincing call to action to get involved and… read more

1263_797d7ab933_small September 21, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

(Photo by jon smith 'una nos lucror' via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions… read more

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