About Us

About Us

TownCommons.com helps users create, organize, and share local information.   It was founded in 2008 by John Workman and has its offices in the Scott Technology Center, adjacent to the Peter Kiewit Institute and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

About the Name and Logo

The name Town Commons was selected to bring to mind a shared resource for everyone in the town.  This is most visibly present in a village green or a park such as the Boston Common.  The logo was developed by Bozell, a marketing communications firm in Omaha, and was described by the designer as follows: “This design consists of simple shapes to form a line of trees and when intersecting, creates city buildings – suggesting that both coexist to form a community. Interaction and collaboration are also inspired by the overlapping lines.”

Board of Directors

Adam Haeder – Chief Technology Officer at the AIM Institute

Kim Mickelsen – Managing Director at Bozell, a creative marketing communications firm

Ken Moreano - Executive Director, Scott Technology Center

Brad Patrick – Managing Partner at Chamberlin Patrick, PA, former General Counsel and Interim Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation

Dr. John P. Workman, Jr. – Founder, Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Marketing and Management Department, Creighton University

Management

Adrian Blake --  CEO

Adrian D. Blake is CEO of Town Commons, a startup business based in Omaha that helps people create, find, and organize local information.  

Previously, Blake was Publisher of The Progressive Farmer, the world’s largest farm magazine (Circulation 650,000), and Vice President of the DTN Media Group with responsibility for all DTN’s advertising businesses.  He had previously spent 6 years as a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Co. in London and Los Angeles, helping develop strategy for clients in the Media & Entertainment industry around the world, including television broadcasters, cable networks, record labels, magazines, and newspapers.  Before joining McKinsey, he spent several years in the television industry, managing the international distribution of U.S. television brands, notably Saturday Night Live and Comedy Central.

He also is an adjunct professor at Creighton University, teaching Marketing.

Blake has a bachelor's degree in Classics from Harvard University, and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

John Hobbs -- Lead Developer

John Hobbs is a software developer from Omaha, Nebraska.  He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he was a Scott Scholar and held a Regents Scholarship.  John specializes in web technologies and the systems that support them. John is founder of OurUNO.com and WikiOmaha.com, and avidly uses and contributes to Open Source software.