We're excited to bring you our thirteenth Opportunities on the Prairie today, featuring listings from Pioneer Publishing (The Reader) in Omaha and The Post SD in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. If you or your company has one to add, please contact Danny at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing and… read more
April 16, 2010 by John T. Meyer
Brookings After attending the Don't Move, Build Your Own Startup Community panel at SXSW last month, my brother, Scott, and I were inspired by all the creative energy from the participating panelists, including Silicon Prairie News founder, Jeff Slobotski. I already knew about all the great… read more
March 10, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Sioux Falls Next up in our series of interviews with online publications emerging on the Silicon Prairie is The Post South Dakota out of Sioux Falls. Although The Post isn't producing content with the same frequency as yesterday's spotlight, the Kansas City Free Press, it's covering a wide variety, as well. From music to local eats to fashion, you're sure to find an article… read more
When a group of former professional journalists teamed up with bloggers in the Kansas City area last year to launch KCFreePress.com, an online publication featuring local news and events, it grabbed my interest. On the day it launched, Lucas Wetzel, the publication's editor-in-chief, wrote a… read more
February 16, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Sioux Falls Check out The Post SD, "South Dakota's home for journalism," to hear the lessons learned by one of contributors, John T. Meyer of Sioux Falls, from his crowd sourcing experiment, PickMyNHLTeam.com. Here's the start of Post editor Heather Mangan's article, which includes a video interview with John. read more