As you can tell from our previous blog post (and this picture of dinner from Friday night), Adam Seitz (@adamseitz), Arlo Oviatt (@onwardcreative) and myself had a lot to digest. The first day had been a real headspinner in terms of great speakers, great content and great ideas. But they don’t call it Big Omaha [...]

The brainchild of SiliconPrairieNews.com founders Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson, Big Omaha was created to bring together entrepreneurs, innovators and creatives and inspire them to “follow their passions, build the businesses they love and strengthen their creative communities.” The inaugural event was held last year in 2009 and proved to be a wildly successful happening. [...]

In today’s edition, we have a guest contributor: Paul Jarrett. As the programs chair for the Lincoln AAF and as a marketing manager at Nebraska Book Company, Paul is very active in exploring and experimenting with social media applications for marketing and promotional purposes. [Disclosure: the Nebraska Book Company is one of my current clients.] [...]

First off, props to my good friend Chris Riebschlager (of the816.com) for this link. Secondly, this whole rant by Chris Weingarten hits me with the force of a gut punch. As a former hack freelance music critic, I like to think that I wrote from a place that harbored a genuine love for music that [...]

Drinking from the fire hose. That’s perhaps the best way to describe yesterday’s Free State Social in Lawrence, Kansas. Though the first year of this unique local event — a single-day conference/forum for social media enthusiasts and practitioners — I was thoroughly impressed by the caliber of speakers, the quality of the content presented and [...]