Big Wheel Brigade https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com Custom Website and Web Application development Wed, 08 Mar 2017 19:22:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.6 https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wheel-red-rgb.png Big Wheel Brigade https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com 32 32 A Day Without a Woman: Fostering Employee Activism with ‘Social Justice PTO’ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2017/03/social-justice-pto/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2017/03/social-justice-pto/#respond Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:47:22 +0000 http://165.227.11.127/?p=159 I lack a language for striking. When I heard rumblings of a general strike earlier this year, and later saw a multi-organizational call for A Day Without a Woman, I knew I wanted to participate but had no idea how to begin. The company I work for is a socially-conscious small business, made up of […]

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]]> https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2017/03/social-justice-pto/feed/ 0 Beth’s Going to Omaha Code School! https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2015/12/beths-going-to-omaha-code-school/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2015/12/beths-going-to-omaha-code-school/#respond Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:15:43 +0000 http://bwb.flywheelsites.com/?p=79 We're excited to announce that Beth has enrolled in the upcoming Omaha Code School class and will be a coder in no time!

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]]> https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2015/12/beths-going-to-omaha-code-school/feed/ 0 Heather Praiswater Joins the Brigade! https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2015/06/heather-praiswater-joins-the-brigade/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2015/06/heather-praiswater-joins-the-brigade/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:25:17 +0000 http://bwb.flywheelsites.com/?p=88 This post is a long time coming. Last fall, we brought Heather Praiswater, a graduate of the second Omaha Code School cohort on board as a temporary full-time hire. This April, we were able to offer her a permanent position as a full-stack developer at Big Wheel Brigade and are so fortunate that she accepted. […]

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]]> https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2015/06/heather-praiswater-joins-the-brigade/feed/ 0 Andrew Ek Joins the Brigade! https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2014/08/andrew-ek-joins-the-brigade/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2014/08/andrew-ek-joins-the-brigade/#respond Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:23:11 +0000 http://bwb.flywheelsites.com/?p=85 We’re so excited to be announcing our newest team-member, Andrew Ek. Andrew is joining us in two roles: as a developer for Big Wheel Brigade, and as an educator and curriculum specialist for Omaha Code School. As an Educator, Andrew will help us improve our curriculum and pedagogy. Andrew is part of the current Omaha […]

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]]> https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2014/08/andrew-ek-joins-the-brigade/feed/ 0 Beth Haubert Joins the Brigade https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2014/07/beth-haubert-joins-the-brigade/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2014/07/beth-haubert-joins-the-brigade/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:19:14 +0000 http://bwb.flywheelsites.com/?p=82 This summer is especially bright, as Beth joins our team as Director of Operations. Beth is our first hire, and her foundational role encompasses duties too numerous to list and too varied to aptly contain in a single job title. Since starting five weeks ago, she’s become our point-person for legal, financial, and governmental matters […]

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]]> https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2014/07/beth-haubert-joins-the-brigade/feed/ 0 The $29,000 Birthday Swim for Charity: Water https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/07/the-29000-birthday-swim-for-charity-water/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/07/the-29000-birthday-swim-for-charity-water/#respond Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:12:49 +0000 http://bwb.flywheelsites.com/?p=75 In 2010 we were introduced to Charity: Water by a talk given by its founder, Scott Harrison, at Big Omaha. Charity: Water helps bring clean, safe drinking water to people in developing countries. Scott’s talk inspired our cofounder, Rahul, to realign his priorities and planted the seed which has become Big Wheel Brigade. This year, […]

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]]> https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/07/the-29000-birthday-swim-for-charity-water/feed/ 0 GOOD Maker Workshop Challenge https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/07/good-maker-workshop-challenge/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/07/good-maker-workshop-challenge/#respond Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:09:44 +0000 http://bwb.flywheelsites.com/?p=70 One of the things that motivates Big Wheel Brigade’s social good fund is our desire to demonstrate (and facilitate) the democratization of giving. In this vein, Big Wheel Brigade is sponsoring GOOD Maker’s July Challenge: Host a GOOD Workshop. When we discovered GOOD Maker, we got in touch and very quickly were able to work […]

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]]> https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/07/good-maker-workshop-challenge/feed/ 0 The Unofficial SecretPenguin Foundation https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/05/the-unofficial-secretpenguin-foundation/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/05/the-unofficial-secretpenguin-foundation/#respond Fri, 25 May 2012 20:07:34 +0000 http://bwb.flywheelsites.com/?p=68 The design community in Omaha is phenomenal. Great talent abounds, risks are taken, and it’s fairly collaborative. Another facet of the Omaha design community is its willingness to support non-profit organizations and an interest in doing good. We are delighted to be riding on the coattails of one of these companies: SecretPenguin, a youth branding […]

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]]> https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/05/the-unofficial-secretpenguin-foundation/feed/ 0 Wait! Where are you going?! https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/05/wait-where-are-you-going/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/05/wait-where-are-you-going/#respond Tue, 08 May 2012 19:54:04 +0000 http://bwb.flywheelsites.com/?p=66 Nowhere. Honestly. This post is for our friends in Omaha. While it’s true that I’ve just left Omaha due to a job opportunity for my wife, Big Wheel Brigade intends to continue being a company rooted in Omaha. We’ll be participating in Omaha events, hiring in Nebraska when possible, and working with Omaha companies. Big […]

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]]> https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/05/wait-where-are-you-going/feed/ 0 Introducing Big Wheel Brigade https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/05/introducing-big-wheel-brigade/ https://www.bigwheelbrigade.com/2012/05/introducing-big-wheel-brigade/#respond Tue, 08 May 2012 19:49:02 +0000 http://bwb.flywheelsites.com/?p=64 First thing’s first: Big Wheel Brigade is a software development and consulting shop with an eye on social good, specializing in Ruby on Rails, PHP (LAMP) and javascript. Hire us. We’ll do right by you. Now that that’s out of the way, we can get a little more personal. We founded BWB in the fall […]

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