Des Moines Typo fixed on 11/10 at 1:35 The 2009 edition of Highlight Midwest ended with a set of keynote presentations from leaders of innovative companies in each of the event's three core cities: Kansas City, Des Moines and ... read more
Omaha Since launching last March, there's no question that Jimmy Winter's latest project, RockDex, has made traction. The writeup he received from Jolie O'Dell on ReadWriteWeb in August was a big milestone, as well as the subject it ... read more
Kansas City Kansas City-based Storenvy, an online store system and marketplace, kicked their site up a level today with the launch of "Storenvy Social." Here's an excerpt from the update they sent out to store owners last Friday: On Tuesday, ... read more
Omaha This week we had an opportunity to speak with Jason Fried, founder of 37 Signals and a Big Omaha 2009 speaker, about his company's latest project, Haystack.com. Haystack is a new way for clients and web designers to ... read more
Des Moines The question in the title was one of three that I asked 17 attendees at last Friday's Highlight Midwest in Des Moines. The other questions: who are you, where are you from, and who from the conference would you ... read more
Kansas City Here's a great upcoming event for the folks in Kansas City (and honestly, the entire region, although registration is capped around 150!) Bo Fishback and the team at the Kauffman Foundation are announcing Ignite Kansas City to be held ... read more
Kansas City A couple of weeks ago, I conducted an email interview with Luke Pillow, a member of the Kansas City-based team, The Phoenix-Durango, that developed Twitassist.me for the 2009 Rails Rumble. The Ruby on Rails web application is ... read more
Kansas City BarCampKC was held this past weekend and Omaha's own Joe Frost (@OmahaJoe on Twitter) was there. While there, he was able to catch a great interview with Steven Chau about BarcampKC and the entrepreneurial scene in the Kansas City ... read more
Kansas City Updated title of post on 9/22 at 1:07 p.m. Last Thursday, Brian Solis, principal at FutureWorks and founder of the Social Media Club organization, spoke to the Greater Kansas City's PRSA chapter about "The State of ... read more
Kansas City In less than two weeks, Twestival Local, an event inspired by a group of London Twitterers' Harvest Twestival in 2008, will be taking place in cities all over the world. On The Prairie, Lawrence will be hosting one on the ... read more