Jan 6, 2012

Taking advantage of an opportunity, that’s exactly what these guys did while the world spotlight was on Iowa this week.  Monday night, 24 hours to go until the Iowa Caucus and IowaFilmMakers‘ Scott Siepker and Paul Benedict were at the top of Desmoinesregister.com with a link to the new “Iowa Nice” Youtube video.  Within a couple hours...

Dec 16, 2011

The Faux Caucus quickly turned into a campaign Iowa has never seen before.  After launching on Monday, voting throughout Des Moines for the selected group of Social Czars grew to 1,300 votes total by Thursday afternoon!  This is most likely the best organized popularity contest you have ever seen and it’s simple.  Anyone is welcome to vote for the...

Jun 17, 2010

Please find the Friday Guest Blog below, this was written by Shawn Harrington Who would’ve thought our city could be such a big host this week?  Actually, none of us should be too surprised; within a 3 week span we’ve had many of the world’s best golfers, international athletes competing in the top triathlon and then there’s this...

Mar 18, 2010

I think it is safe to assume most of us have read a new article or two about the campaigns by West Des Moines and Des Moines to attract Google Fiber. If you haven’t there is some good information here and here. Now that we have the background covered, I wanted to take a quick look into the impact of Google Fiber. Imagine what the fastest internet connection...

Feb 19, 2010

Please find the Friday Guest Blog below, this was written by Shawn Harrington Several years back, one of those “motivational speakers” showed up in front of my teenage church group to talk about appreciating what you have in life.  His main message was simple: to truly appreciate what you do have, you have to sometimes look at what others...

Oct 2, 2009

Please find the Friday Guest Blog below, this was written by: Shawn Harrington So we sit in 2009 inbetween election years.  As there’s plenty of issues out there affecting us and the lives we live, there’s still many people (like myself in past years), who lose interest in the wake of past elections.  Before we know it, the next wave will be...