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The most innovative architecture companies for 2025

Fast Company Tech

to create an active paseo, which hosts local farmers markets and other gatherings. The projects ground floor retail, reserved for local businesses, is designed to further activate the area. Its also imbedded with local fauna, increasing local habitat biodiversity, reducing heat absorption, and contributing to stormwater management.

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20 must-attend tech conferences for female entrepreneurs in 2014

The Next Web

Big Omaha. I attended Big Omaha last year and was thrilled with the speakers and attendees I met. Tony Hsieh’s Life Is Beautiful festival is a perfect example of the type of holistic viewpoint entrepreneurs should have in terms of the intersection of our purpose, the people we love, and the places we enjoy.

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Meet 15 companies that are turning ads and marketing into cultural moments

Fast Company Tech

Airbnb managed to create a product extension through its own cultural intermingling, and now its Icons platform allows guests to book stays in IRL pop-cultural locales. Shortly after the London-based company opened its New York City office, it found a cunning way to capture locals attention and demonstrate its work.

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Heartland Pride: Winner of the #npfail Little Bets Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, during the Nonprofit Technology Conference plenary session on placing little bets and learning from failure , we issued a challenge to 1,000 nonprofits in the audience. Let’s do more than just give failure lip service, let’s put it into practice and share learning from a failure or placing a “Little Bet.”

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From the Kids’ Table to the Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fortunately, we are seeing concrete examples of what can happen when funders recognize relationships as having a place at the theory-of-change table—when funders support strengthening relationships where they are weak … or absent. As we see it, the Omaha community is relationships.”. Funder Support for Relationships.

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

The broadband company, CenturyLink , is also building a gigabit fiber network in Omaha, so this is definitely a growing trend. The fund will rely on local nonprofits to figure what the right solutions are for this specific region. The service provides TV broadband and Internet that is comparable with cable offers.

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The Lessons Learned From Small Businesses

Eric Jacobsen Blog

that produced dozens of stories about what local small businesses on Main Street’s across America do that can inspire big businesses on Wall Street – or Madison Avenue megabrands, or enterprise of any size -- in today’s economy. Do you think you missed some valuable stories by having not traveled to Texas and all but one place in California?

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