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Media Temple

Media Temple

From its inception in 1998, (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to help people and businesses succeed online.

Over 125,000 customers in 100 countries now rely on Media Temple’s tools for domain registration, web hosting, business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites. With 200 dedicated, U.S.-based employees, Media Temple takes pride in our 24/7 customer support. Our customers range from everyday people to top bloggers, creative professionals, and small businesses, as well as large enterprises like Starbucks, Adidas, Samsung, and Toyota.

More information can be found anytime on the web at http://mediatemple.com or on Twitter @MediaTemple.

Bluehost

Bluehost

Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.

WiredTree

WiredTree

WiredTree provides Managed VPS and Managed Dedicated Servers to WordPress users worldwide from our Chicago-based data center and offices. Every WT server is backed by 24×7 telephone support, ticket support with 15 minute average response times, and is fully managed and monitored by WiredTree to maximize uptime and minimize frustration. All servers come ready-to-run with cPanel/WHM and are optimized and security hardened with firewall and anti-spam out of the box. With experience in SSD technology, MariaDB, Memcached, WordPress plugins, server optimization, and LiteSpeed Web server, WiredTree can take your site’s performance to the next level.

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DreamHost

DreamHost

DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute. More information can be found at http://dreamhost.com.

Code Poet

Code Poet

If you use WordPress to build things for other people, Code Poet wants to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, Code Poet’s aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it.

You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over 10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. codepoet.com aims to bring the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into one place, for you to tap into.

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WPML

WPML

WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.

WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 400,000 commercial websites from all over the world.

More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org

Disqus

Disqus

Disqus is a free service that makes it easy for anyone to create or participate in an online community. Our magic is in connecting people to stuff that’s worth talking about.

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MCC Fab Lab

MCC Fab Lab

What is Fablab
Fab Lab is the educational outreach component of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), an extension of its research into digital fabrication and computation. A Fab Lab is a technical prototyping platform for innovation and invention, providing stimulus for local entrepreneurship. A Fab Lab is also a platform for learning and innovation: a place to play, to create, to learn, to mentor, and to invent.

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As a community center, Fab Lab Omaha is a resource for local technology enthusiasts who span a broad spectrum from hobbyist and tinkerers, to artist and designers, to engineers and scientists. Individual members with creative ideas bring them to fruition with the labs equipment and tools. Programming for individual members includes entry-level and advanced classes to train them in the various skills required to use the facility and equipment without supervision.

Business
Fab Lab Omaha is a hub for inventors and provides entrepreneurs and businesses with a high-quality, low-cost, low-risk method of rapid prototyping new products. The objective is to foster entrepreneurship and economic development, and encourage start-up companies to grow beyond rather than within the lab. Business and industry members receive extensive technical assistance in using lab equipment and programming software applications.

Education
The education program at Fab Lab Omaha enables educators to introduce and illustrate a variety of engineering disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, chemical and structural engineering, as well as computer science, math and art. Additionally, students learn how to envision, design, build, test and refine their ideas through hands-on experience with 2D and 3D design software and digital fabrication tools. When using technology in education, the key is to enhance the concepts being taught.

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Easy Digital Downloads

Easy Digital Downloads

Easy Digital Downloads is a complete e-commerce solution for selling digital products in a light, performant, and easy to use plugin.

Maintainn

Maintainn

Maintainn provides real WordPress help including 24/7 security monitoring, nightly backups, weekly updates and expert support. You’ll never have to worry about your WordPress site again – with Maintainn on your team you can focus on your business and let them handle the rest.

Lauren Prentiss Designs

Lauren Prentiss Designs

Lauren Prentiss Designs is headed up by Lauren Hunt, freelance Graphic & Web designer located in Omaha, Nebraska. Lauren Prentiss Designs is your one-stop-design-shop for all of your Graphic Design needs specializing in Brand Identity, Logo Design, Print Design, Website Design, WordPress Development.

The Reader

The Reader

Anchored by The Reader, Nebraska’s only nationally-recognized alternative newsweekly, Pioneer consists of 10 media channels — five print, five online — with an established market share in Omaha’s fastest-growing and active demographic and advertising segments and one of the most established, local freelance content provider networks. A total estimated audience exceeding 100,000 adults makes Pioneer the only non-traditional local media company in the top 10 by audience size, demonstrating proven growth since its start in 1992.

Pioneer’s seeds were first planted in 1991 by a group of college kids involved in Omaha’s nascent homegrown music and culture scene, leading to a non-profit monthly that broke away from the stale and conservative reporting found in traditional local media. That all-volunteer effort became Omaha’s third metropolitan newsweekly since WWII and the first to be accepted for membership in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. The Reader’s first issue was published in February of 1994 by a group of five, including current publisher John Heaston, out of an apartment at 49th and Dodge. Things only grew from there.

Over the next decade-and-a-half, the paper endured a couple changes in ownership while a series of quality editors kept a keen focus on providing Omaha with cutting edge news and sharp cultural coverage, each issue complete with great writing, great presentation and the city’s most complete event listings. “With each paper, a better paper” became the motto and over time, The Reader gained the trust of Omaha’s residents and eventually established itself as a staple of the city in its own right. Operations also steadily improved, as for a time The Reader was published out of a train car that was attached to a brewery on 78th and Cass (1995) before it enjoyed stints at offices downtown (1996-1999) and in historic Dundee (2000-2007) until landing in its current location in the immigrant hub that is South Omaha.

Also during that time, The Reader’s parent company, Pioneer Publishing, diversified into fast-growing consumer and advertising segments, including: TheReader.com (2002) Today’s Omaha Woman (2003), under a publishing agreement with the Women’s Fund of Greater Omaha ABM Enterprises-The Leader in Latino Print Publications (2004) OmahaJobs.com (2005) Directorio Latino Sioux City (2007) OmahaCars.com (2009) Neighborhood News and MetroNeighborhoodNews.com (2010) DishOmaha.com and OmahaJobs.com Job Fairs (2011).

Over the past 17 years, The Reader has published well over 25,000 stories, thanks to contributions from hundreds of creative individuals. In addition to event listings, edgy feature stories and vigorous coverage of Omaha’s music and arts scenes, staples of the magazine include an alternative health column by Michael Braunstein, a local music column from Tim McMahan and a mysterious horoscope written by local blues artist MoJoPo. We are publishing nearly 17,000 copies each week that are distributed to roughly 650 delivery points. Other Pioneer publications such as El Perico and Today’s Omaha Woman have also expanded their presence in Omaha over time.

The focus on the future is now. We launched a revamped website (TheReader.com) in November 2010 that provides Omaha with unique access to the printed paper’s content as well as online exclusives and blogs. Smart phone apps are right around the corner, too. The experienced in-house staff and enthusiastic contributors that make up our Reader team are prepared to continue providing Omaha with the same honest, thorough and provocative coverage of the city’s culture and news as we transition into the age of new media. But whether you’re flipping through our pages or tapping around on your phone or tablet, we hope you’ll keep reading. It’s an exciting time to be in Omaha. It’s an exciting time to be a part of The Reader.

AdPointe

AdPointe

AdPointe is an Omaha-based, WordPress powered advertising and marketing company responsible for Omaha Sun Times and Shout Omaha, among other locally branded sites.

ID Marketing Group

ID Marketing Group

Identity Marketing Group is a complete promotional brand marketing agency that designs products and solutions for corporations and organizations across North America that include Fortune 500 corporations and smaller companies. We provide promotional merchandise, commercial printing, Web development, consumer premiums, sales incentives and other marketing solutions that directly impact your ability to support your image and build complete brand awareness.

Flywheel

Flywheel

Flywheel is a managed WordPress hosting platform built specifically for designers and creative agencies. Flywheel makes it simple to build, launch, and manage client sites with its easy-to-use dashboard built from the ground up for the modern web designer. With nightly backups, blazing-fast load times, WordPress-specific security, and an awesome support team full of WordPress developers, Flywheel helps thousands of designers across the world launch projects every day.

StickerGiant

StickerGiant

Stickergiant.com was designed to print super high quality stickers quickly. Our service and quality is both guaranteed and legendary, a winning combination. We provide email support and are answering phones from 7:30am to 5:30pm MST. Give us a call at 866-774-7900

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Rule of Thumb for Small Business

Rule of Thumb for Small Business

We often hear that small businesses are the engines of job creation in the United States. Their value and the role they play in our economy is sometimes underestimated because, they are in fact, small. But the truth is there’s nothing small about the impact they have on our economy.

According to Entrepreneur Magazine there are between 25 million and 27 million small businesses in the U.S. that account for 60 to 80 percent of all U.S. jobs. So, how do we ensure small businesses are getting the resources they need to grow? What can we do to not only help them succeed, but thrive in an ever changing economy? Providing the right climate for entrepreneurial firms to succeed, including access to business advisors can be extremely valuable. Smart regulations and tax structures can also give small businesses a boost and better chance of survival.

RULE OF THUMB FOR SMALL BUSINESS vision is to-become the leader in providing resources, published materials and presentation forums to small businesses for their growth, development, and long term sustainability.

Our library of Rule of Thumb books was developed for those small business owners. Our expert authors are available to lead your team through practical and interactive training that will result in strategies and tactics to benefit the bottom line! Whether you are looking for training in business basics, marketing, human performance, or Microsoft Office applications, we can assist you in growing your business.

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