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Omaha With the simple push of a bright red "push here" button, Justin Limoges Photography's photobooth at BarCamp Omaha 2011 automatically took four consecutive pictures of the attendees standing in front of the camera. What came out of the 10-hour photo session, which began with the opening party on Friday and ran through the unconference on Saturday, is the video below, a fast-paced tour through … read more

Omaha BarCamp Omaha 2011 is officially off and running, with an opening party to kick start the event last night and a breakfast this morning, the 30 sessions are now underway. Here's today's schedule, followed by a few the pics from the morning so far. You can also tune into the event through Twitter by following the hashtag #BCO11. … read more

Omaha 'Tis the season for BarCamps. Last week, we announced BarCamp ICR scheduled for August 13. This week, it's an announcement for BarCamp Omaha. Now in its fourth year and third consecutive year at Nomad Lounge, BarCamp Omaha will kick things off with an opening party on Friday, September 9 and an all-day event on Saturday, September 10. read more

Omaha As I wrote in a post earlier today, BarCamp Omaha 2010 was an exclamation point to a great week on the Silicon Prairie. After startup funding and acquisition news this past week, we inside the Silicon Prairie News office were riding a high, and Dusty Davidson, co-founder of Silicon Prairie News was hustling like the rest of BarCamp Omaha team… read more

Omaha BarCamp Omaha opened things up last night with a party at the same venue the un-conference is being held at today, Nomad Lounge (1013 Jones Street) in Omaha's Old Market district. Local mobile app developer Andy Peters, co-founder of Ninth Division, doubled as a professional photographer last night and took some great party shots. Below are a few and then head on over to his Flickr account… read more

Omaha BarCamp Omaha kicked off this morning around 9 p.m. as just about 200 gathered at Nomad Lounge (1013 Jones Street) in Omaha's Old Market district. From 9 to 10, attendees enjoyed some hot drinks, donuts, muffins and more while those who felt compelled to give a talk wrote the title of their talk on a sticky note and stuck it to the "schedule board." read more

Omaha With less than a week to go, Barcamp Omaha is quickly approaching. This third annual event takes place this Saturday, November 20th at Nomad Lounge. If you're planning on giving a talk (and we hope that you will), you'll want to be there first thing to get your name on the schedule. In addition, you might want to check out the great post on the Barcamp site – How to Give a Great Barcamp Talk – which lays out some great tips for what makes… read more