Prairie Moves is a roundup of career changes, media coverage, product development and other updates from the companies and individuals regularly covered by Silicon Prairie News. To submit an item for consideration, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com or use the form below.
Lead Read
“Thanks For Helping Us Celebrate 10,000” – Hudl announced this week it now has 10,000 schools using its online video analysis and coaching tools.
Quotable
“Oh so many awesome apps in that image. We’re truly proud to see our baby up there!” – Montessorium reacts to seeing its Intro to Letters app featured on one of the slides at the Apple event this week. – Montessorium blog
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Career Moves
- Micah Bennett joined Zapier – Zapier blog
New Tech
- OneLouder Apps released Live 140, a mobile Twitter Guide for TV – Press Rease, App Store and Google Play
- Flywheel, a startup offering premium WordPress hosting and soon a management product, launched its website – getflywheel.com and SPN
Mentions
- Sporting Innovations – The world is watching Sporting KC’s fan experience – KSHB
- Neighborly – We the People – Architectural Record
- Zapier – Zapier Is a Webapp-Automation Service Just Like IFTTT—But With Many More App Connections – Lifehacker
- In the Midwest, Reddit finds a thriving startup culture – Forbes
- Under30CEO Awards: Top Young Entrepreneurs to Watch in Kansas City – Under30CEO
Gig Bits
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- Will Google Fiber Convulse Local Telecom Markets? – Huffington Post
- Educators Discuss Benefits, Troubles of Google Fiber in Schools – Google Connects KC
- Google Fiber: Installation in progress… – KC Startup Village
Recognition
- Technology Association of Iowa released its Women of Innovation finalists, which included Tikly founder Emma Peterson, Entrepreneurial Technologies founder Erin Rollenhagen, Far Reach partner Kate Wasnut and Banno account manager Abby Goltz – SPN
Blogged
- Tech Cocktail’s Kansas City Mixer Event Wrap-Up – Tech Cocktail
- Sensitive Startups: Women and the New Wave of Connective Leadership – Jessica Bishop
- 2 Must-Have Habits for High Value Networking – Tim Henningsen
- What Is Coworking? – CoVis Coworking
- How we used a drone to cover drought – Drone Journalism Lab
- Tech Cocktail Kansas City Recap – Stackify
- TechCocktailKC Highlights Kansas City’s Growing Start-up Community – FormZapper
- Intro to Letters Icon – Montessorium
- Truckily: Beyond KCSW – Startup Weekend Kansas City
- The Boomer Entrepreneur: Never Too Old to Launch a Business – Alana Muller
- Think Big Accelerator Spotlight: Dwayne Brock of Kansas City Startup Kahootz – Think Big Partners
- 11 Conference Tips for Entrepreneurs – Brent Beshore
Credits: Video from Hudl on YouTube