Congrats to my old friends at the Journal Star for (gulp) deciding to almost double the cost of my newspaper subscription. The not-so-dirty secret of the newspaper biz is they’ve been almost giving away the paper for years to anyone with the nerve to ask — a hopeless attempt to shore up declining circulation. Thanks …
We Love Everything About WordPress … Except the Capital “P”
Here at Nebraska Digital, we’re totally and wholeheartedly committed to WordPress. Except the capital “P.” As far as we’re concerned, WordPress is the most amazing open source software to come along in recent years. But one of the reasons it’s so great is that the open source community that rabidly adopted it has avoid silly, …
Top Software Picks for 2010
Friend and client John Brasch asked if I’d put together a list of my favorite accounting, sales and advertising tools for his Brasch Fast Start class for entrepreneurs. Given the nature of our services, we work with a lot of startup and small business entrepreneurs. It makes sense then to do this list as a …
Groupon Comes to Lincoln
By JOHN ROOD Groupon, the group buying site that is taking the Internet by storm, debuted in Lincoln this week with offers for discounts on loose meet sandwiches and yoga classes. If you haven’t checked it out yet, the idea is simple: You check out the site or get a daily email and see an …
Featured Project: Wisconsin Watch
By JOHN ROOD Our University of Nebraska-Lincoln friends over in Huskerland aren’t the only ones to have the good fortune of making some good friends in Big Ten Country. A few months before our Huskers joined the Big Ten, we helped the good folks over at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism relaunch the WordPress-powered …
