As a Little Rock outsider, I had to seriously dig the Internet and talk to complete strangers (ad nauseam) to find out about most of the events I attended. Hell, on occasion some locals (on both sides of the river)... (Continue reading)
I’ve been in a redesign for a long time and I’m not making enough effort! I moved to Kansas 3 years ago after being in Silicon Valley for 20 years. Kansas is an amazing technology hub!!! I can even pitch... (Continue reading)
During Live Your Truth chat one thing that resonated with me seeing where we were and we are now. I know that I have come a long ways since my early days blogging and even the internet. On the flip... (Continue reading)
So, I saw the cool kid put his arm around the wannabe…it was April 1st…it’s a joke, right? Or was it? I was tired of being in the dark. I had seen Alissa Sheley on the television endorsing Think Big... (Continue reading)
Yup you heard it right Topeka has taken over Google at least for today anyway. In a truly awesome return of our gesture to rename Topeka “Google” Kansas for a month Google decided to change it’s name to Topeka for... (Continue reading)
Google has changed their home page logo to Topeka for April Fool’s Day! I assume this was inspired by our (Topeka, Kansas’s) temporary re-naming last month to Google, Kansas and Think Big Topeka’s #1G4Topeka effort. If you’ve been following the... (Continue reading)
If you haven’t been following us, we started ThinkbigTopeka in February and it’s really been a huge success! We have over 16,000 members in our facebook group and close to 1,000 in our facebook page. We started off as a... (Continue reading)
We had the opportunity to host volunteers from Think Big Topeka in our studio Monday. They’re an interesting group, brought together by their desire to see Topeka land Google’s fiber experiment. Between answering calls from viewers with questions about the... (Continue reading)
It seems like every city in America wants Google Fiber. And who can blame them? Ever since Google announced its plan last month to bring ultra-high speed Internet connections (as in, up to 100x faster than what most of the... (Continue reading)
Google’s call for medium-sized cities to pilot its high-speed broadband network has attracted the marketing wit of another locale: Greenville, South Carolina. Citizens of Greenville have launched the “We Are Feeling Lucky” campaign –- an obvious play on Google’s “I’m... (Continue reading)