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The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News.
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Career Moves
- Will Flavell, formerly Manager of Social Influence at Bozell (Omaha), was accepted into the Officer Training School for the U.S. Air Force for their jet-rated program and will be taking military leave for an extended period of time – via email
- Andrew Wirick joined appendTo (Denver-based, Omaha office), the enterprise jQuery Company, as Senior Trainer / Developer – via email
- Paul Vachal, formerly of Pickering Creative Group, joined Reliant Studios (Lincoln) as VP of Sales – via press release
- Jeff Harp, formerly an account executive at NRG Media, joined LivingSocial (Washington, D.C.-based, Omaha office) – via email
Media Coverage
- Corn Finger‘s Cody Butler (Lincoln) interviewed by Husker Faithful: Have you heard about the Corn Finger? Cody Butler explains…
- Clint Harvey of Catchfire Media (Des Moines) profiled by Des Moines Business Record: A Closer Look: Clint Harvey
- Dwolla (Des Moines) featured in the Des Moines Register: Iowa’s Dwolla: Making money, moving money
- CropMetrics (North Bend, Nebraska) highlighted by Nebraska Entrepreneur: CropMetrics provides exclusive services for area farms
- Susan Thomas, executive director of the Omaha Creative Institute, highlighted by Omaha-World Herald columnist Michael Kelly: Omaha’s cultural growth noticed
- BuilderTREND Solutions, Inc. (Omaha) was named to Constructech Magazine‘s Constructech 50 List of 2010, an award recognizing Top 50 most influential technology providers in the construction industry – via press release
Product Development
- Diligent IS (Des Moines) was acquired by Visionary Services, Inc. (Des Moines) – via linkedin.com/in/brianhemesath
- New BLK, “a big thinking creative team,” launched in Omaha – via twitter.com/thenewblk
- BrightMix (Omaha) launched the new website of its product Tripleseat (Boston) – via twitter.com/tripleseat
- Omaha Creative Week added Omaha Poetry Slam to its event list – via twitter.com/omacreativeweek
- Phenomblue (Omaha) re-launched its new website in HTML5 – via word of mouth
- Catchfire Media (Des Moines) announced it’s the Scheels All Sports Inc.’ Social Media Agency of Record – via email newsletter
- Megan Hunt, owner of CAMP coworking, has begun moving into CAMP – via princesslasertron.com
Misc.
- Jonathan Sharp, President of appendTo (Denver-based, Omaha office), delivered a free O’Reilly Media webcast, 5 jQuery mistakes you’re probably making in your project, on July 13, and he’ll be speaking at OSCON The O’Reilly Open Source Convention, July 19-23, Portland – via twitter.com/jdsharp