September 7, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Today, charity: water is celebrating their fifth birthday and we're thrilled to share a video with you that the team at charity: water produced as a thank you to the Big Omaha and Silicon Prairie News community! Here's the email they sent me with the entire community in mind as it's a testament to what our community did that made the amazing impact: Hi Jeff, My name is Lauren Miller and I'm … read more
March 1, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the last presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and author of the New York Times bestseller "Delivering Happiness". When Tony confirmed that he'd be able to make Big Omaha 2010, we all knew we were in for a treat. Tony shared many of the details around what has made the Zappos organization… read more
February 25, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the eleventh presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010. This video features the "Entrepreneur Panel" in which David Hauser of Grasshopper Group led the discussion of three entrepreneurs: Matt Galligan, co-founder of SimpleGeo, Alexa Andrzejewski, co-founder & CEO of Foodspotting and Justin Shaffer, founder of HotPotato (now with Facebook). read more
February 10, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Ames Yesterday, we posted about Nathan Hidajat, a second grader in Ames, Iowa who gave up his 8th birthday in a fundraising effort to help charity: water, a charity that works to provide clean drinking water to people around the world who don't have access to it. Nathan decided to give up his birthday after seeing a video of Scott Harrison, charity: water's founder, presenting at last May's Big Omaha. Nathan's father, Robert, answered a few questions for us by email yesterday about how… read more
February 9, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Ames Not many can deny that Scott Harrison, founder of charity: water, is a moving speaker. Harrison's story of personal renewal, his dedication to providing clean drinking water to those who don't have it, and his ability to redefine how we look at philanthropy has moved people all over the world; from the 500 people in the room at last May's Big Omaha to President Obama who mentioned the organization's efforts in a recent National Prayer Breakfast. read more
January 6, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the tenth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features the "Extended Speaker Q&A" in which we brought back on stage six of our speakers: Jason Fried of 37signals, Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV and VaynerMedia, Scott Belsky of Behance, Dennis Crowley of foursquare, Danae Ringelmann of IndieGoGo, and Robert… read more
December 28, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the ninth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic (the company behind Wordpress, Akismet, Gravatar, IntenseDebate and more), interviewed by Robert Scoble, technical evangelist, author and blogger best known for his blog Scobleizer and his work with Building43. (Recorded on May 14, 2010.) In their discussion… read more
December 20, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the eighth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features Big Omaha 2009 returnee Jason Fried, co-founder of Chicago-based 37signals, makers of small business collaboration and CRM software. Fried is also the co-author of the New York Times best seller "REWORK." Fried's talk addresses 10 things he's learned over the… read more
December 6, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're excited to release the next video in our Big Omaha 2010 video series, that of Melody McCloskey, co-founder of StyleSeat, a San Francisco-based company providing online tools for beauty, health, and wellness professionals to build and grow their businesses. McCloskey previously managed video analytics and started the digital distribution department… read more
November 1, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company.) Today, we're excited to release the fifth video in our Big Omaha 2010 video series, that of Gary Vaynerchuk, founder of Wine Library TV, New York Times bestselling author of "Crush It!," and co-founder of VaynerMedia. From the very first year that we had the idea for Big Omaha, Gary was the first one to sign on for the event. Not only did he agree to speak, but since then, Gary has been an amazing supporter, friend and asset… read more