September 14, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Last week, two unconferences took place in Omaha amidst Omaha Creative Week. On Tuesday, Stack, an event geared towards advertising and design professionals, attracted nearly 100 attendees. On Saturday, BarCamp Omaha, an event with three tracks – entrepreneurship, creative and technology – bought together more than 200. Together, that's more than 300 individuals (with some crossover) participating in conversations … read more
July 6, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions … read more
April 29, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Shout!, Omaha's new alternative weekly newspaper, released its inaugural 30 Under 30 list yesterday. In the publication, the list's authors, Chris Larkin and Lisa Martin, described the effort as "a way to present stories of the achievements and aspirations found in the up-and-coming segment of Omaha." Congrats to all those recognized, and a special congrats to Erin Standley, senior designer at Phenomblue, who, while at BrightMix, led the user experience and design of the current version of our website, SiliconPrairieNews.com. Below are the names, titles, companies, and Twitter handles of the 30 – to read the full article with pictures and a writeup about each, pick up a copy of Shout! (pictured left)… read more