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November 14, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha   All images used with permission. The cartoon above is by Omaha cartoonist Jeff Koterba, whose work regularly appears in the Omaha World-Herald. When John Henry Müller of What Cheer was showing me his latest project a ... read more

November 5, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Lincoln A couple of big props came out last week for Tim Siedell, Creative Director at Lincoln-based Fuse Industries, for his wit behind the Twitter account @badbanna. Thanks to consistently hilarious 140 characters or less statements like the one above, @... read more

September 16, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Earlier this week, a tweet Jimmy Winter directed Nick Ashley's way sparked my interest. "Now get me in on that crowdlens beta!" Jimmy wrote. I'm always on the lookout for beta invites or announcements in our region, so ... read more

September 2, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

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

July 16, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha What began as a parody of the most popular Twitter memes, #FollowFriday and #MusicMonday, has begun to gain a following of its own. In April, Omahan Gabe Kangas, @GabeK on Twitter, began manually retweeting his and his friends' pointless tweets ... read more

July 2, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Or maybe I should say, Analog the Prairie Dog is on Twitter! A couple weeks ago, our mascot sent out his first tweet: We're excited to "officially" join the Twittersphere. As a blog that promotes the use of social ... read more

June 19, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Grand Island In today's Weekly Wrap Up we linked to a story released by Mashable reviewing a new Twitter game that Grand Island-based Free Air Collective had a hand in making. From Mashable: The game is simple. Users follow @Trivia, ... read more

April 15, 2009 by Jeff Slobotski

Omaha As we reported, Evan Williams of Twitter was at UNL's Raikes School last Friday afternoon.  It was interesting to hear directly from Evan on his vision, history and outlook into Twitter's future.  Enjoy and stay tuned ... read more

April 9, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Lincoln Nebraska native Evan Williams will return to his home state tomorrow to participate in a series of events at his alma mater, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Unfortunately, these events are not open to the public, but two of them will ... read more

April 2, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Every Friday, we'll be linking to the previous week's news that pertains to "SPNers" and listing the upcoming week's events that pique our interest. News of Last Week 3/27 - NE Creative: MixTape.me, latest project by ... read more