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Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News.
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Career Moves
- Michael Bartsch, formerly with What Cheer (Omaha), is now a Web Designer at Archrival (Lincoln) – via LinkedIn
Media Mentions
- Hillary Brown of On Pitch (Des Moines) featured in the latest South by Southwest email newsletter: SXSW November 2010
- Hayneedle‘s (Omaha) the Foundary covered by Internet Retailer: Hayneedle debuts a flash-sale site
- SmartyPig (Des Moines) mentioned in a CNN article: Get your holiday shopping act together now
- Wendy Townley (Omaha), author of Nerdy Thirty, featured on Rad Women: Wendy Townley
- Proxibid (Omaha) served as the online bidding provider for the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts’ annual art auction: Donated art allows auction to grow
- Benjamin Vu of SkyVu Pictures (Omaha), John Gustafson of Ideation Ventures (Omaha) and Zac Triement of Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. & Sòlas Distillery (La Vista, Nebraska) named to Midlands Business Journal “40 Under 40” annual list: Midlands Business Journals 40 Under 40 Winners
Product Development
- Eliason Media (Des Moines) released version 1.2 of GeoClip.it – via twitter.com/geoclipit
- Dwolla (Des Moines) published a blog post on its development: A Progress Report
New Work
- What Cheer (Omaha) did the website design and development for “Union Pacific’s Great Excursion Adventure” – via email
- What Cheer (Omaha) designed and developed the website for The Post Punk Kitchen blog – via necreative.typepad.com
- Grasshorse (Mount Pleasant, Iowa) worked with SKAR Advertising (Omaha) to produce an animated spot and print artwork for East Texas Medical Center – via grasshorse.wordpress.com
- New BLK (Omaha) and Vox Pop Films released Stop. Listen. Vote. – via necreative.typepad.com
Misc.
- Matt Secoske of Nimble Logic (Omaha), Jon Gilbraith of ProfessionalNerd (London), and Jake Stutzman of Elevate (Lincoln) launched StartupMonth.org – via news.ycombinator.com
- Dave Nelson of Secret Penguin (Omaha) spoke at AIGA South Dakota’s latest event: Dave Nelson – Secret Penguin
- KANEKO‘s Great Minds Series (Omaha) with Joan Acocella of The New Yorker was blogged about by Robert Murphy: KANEKO Great Minds Series: Joan Acocella
- Jon Crawford of Storenvy (San Francisco, formerly Kansas City) was interviewed on Mixergy: Storenvy: Bootstrapped By Selling Over $1 Mil In Tshirt Printing – with Jon Crawford
