April 20, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Omaha mayor Jim Suttle today announced the launch of EngageOmaha.com, one of the nation’s first city-wide, virtual town hall websites. The city launched the site in collaboration with Omaha-based startup MindMixer, which offers web-based idea generation and concept prioritization services. Together, the mayor’s office and MindMixer aim to … read more
February 15, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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 on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact danny@siliconprairienews.com. read more
January 25, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Like the rest of Omaha today, the mayoral recall vote has our attention here in the Silicon Prairie News office. With our focus on our region's startup community, however… read more
September 7, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Last week the Delivering Happiness bus descended on Omaha, Nebraska. It was the second time that Tony Hsieh along with members of the Zappos and Delivering Happiness team were in our city, the first being Hsieh's talk at Big Omaha 2010. When I heard that Hsieh was planning a bus tour across America on behalf of the release of Delivering Happiness, which is now a New York Times… read more
June 23, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
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 on how we… read more
June 21, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha If I had to imagine what participation in a Washington think tank would be like, I'd recollect my experience at last Wednesday's Regional Energy Innovation Summit at the Gallup Organization’s Omaha campus, a follow up of the Energy Innovation Summit that took place May 7 at the White House. Thanks to a partnership between Gallup, the White House… read more
May 27, 2010 by Guest Contributor
Omaha Thanks to a media sponsorship from Andrew Warner of Mixergy, we had the pleasure of meeting Mixergy's producer, Giang Biscan. After her experience at Big Omaha, she wrote about it on her blog, AsAble.com: My personal diary of #BigOmaha. Since publishing it on May 18, she's given us permission to re-post it on Silicon Prairie News – she's made a few edits and added an afterward detailing an email she received from Omaha's Mayor Jim Suttle. read more
February 16, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha I think it's cool to see government entities hire forward-thinking design firms to redesign their websites, so when I saw these two tweets this morning, I had to pass them along read more
Omaha As we move into 2009, we at SPN realize that one of the pivotal issues facing our city are the races for City Council as well as the Mayoral race. Staring in January, SPN will sit down with each of ... read more