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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.
If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact me at danny@siliconprairienews.com.
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Career Moves
- Brian Kiel, a flash and emerging media developer, is now with Corporate 3 Design (Omaha) after a decade on the west coast, most recently with Signal to Noise – via email
- Michael Ritner, formerly with Rackspace (Austin, Texas) joined Five Nines Technology Group (Lincoln) – via Midlands Business Journal*
Media Coverage
- Sojern‘s (Omaha) Airport Remote app was highlighted by WOWT: Omaha Company Flying High With Travel App
- An Iowa wind farm was focus of Mashable post: Google Buys 20 Years’ Worth of Wind Farm Energy
- The World Tri (Charlie Wittmack of Des Moines) covered by NBC Universal Sports: Bold itinerary: Triathlete takes on 12,000-mile trek
- Proxibid‘s (Omaha) Dana Kaufman contributed an article to ConstructionBusinessOwner.com: How to Use Webcast Auctions for Construction Equipment Purchases
- Geosync Global (Des Moines), Shift (Des Moines), and Vision-1 (Huxley) were highlighted by the Business Record: Keep an eye on these three Iowa tech start-ups**
- osgBullet (Ames) covered by the Omaha World-Herald: Software created at ISU earns award
- KANEKO (Omaha) featured by Omaha World-Herald: Just what is KANEKO?
- LivingSocial‘s Jeff Harp (Omaha, corporate headquarters in Washington, D.C.) interviewed by KETV: Daily Deal Website Opens In Omaha
- Pete Jones of Catchfire Media (Des Moines): Five things you should know about turning a hobby into a career
- Medizzle (Austin-based with employee in Lincoln) covered by Nebraska Entrepreneur: Medizzle offers unique twist on social media portal
- Mike Draper of RAYGUN (Des Moines) interviewed by The Des Moines Egotist: Interview with Mike Draper of RAYGUN
Product Development
- Deckerton (Lincoln) released its “Recommend Me” button (via Deckerton Facebook page)
- I_Blog Conference (Perry, Iowa) announced its 2010 dates: November 6-7 (via iblogconference.com)
Other
- Image Made joined CAMP Coworking (Omaha) – via twitter.com/CAMPomaha
*Added to post at 4:15 p.m.
**Previously this article was mistakenly credited to the Des Moines Register
