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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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Media Mentions
- Technology Association of Iowa‘s (Des Moines) Iowa Women of Innovation awards program covered by the Des Moines Register: Technology group presents Women of Innovation awards
- Innovation in Iowa (mention of Dwolla (Des Moines) and BodyViz (Ames)) was discussed at length in a piece by the Des Moines Register: A new plan for nurturing business
- Steve Gordon of RDQLUS Creative & Jordy Clements of Omaha.net (both Omaha) were featured on the Weekly Grind radio show: A RDQLUS Saturday Show. Cowabunga.
- Omaha.net (Omaha) highlighted by Omaha Family, page 10: The Making of Omaha.net
- John Gustafson of Ideation Ventures interviewed by Nebraska Entrepreneur for a special piece: Avoid These Five Mistakes With Angel Investors
New Work
- In partnership with the Omaha World-Herald (Omaha), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska (Omaha) launched Live Well Nebraska: livewellnebraska.com
Misc.
- Infogroup (Omaha) selected by Picksie to power its location-based website and discovery service – via infogroup.com
- Basik Design, a graphic design company, opens its doors in Omaha – via necreative.typepad.com
- Fierce Robot merged with Radio Web Services to form Market Interactive (all in Lincoln) – via email
- Pete Jones of Des Moines is Not Boring (Des Moines) wrote a post about Catchfire Media’s (Des Moines) new location: Catchfire Media Adds to Burgeoning Western Gateway Park Downtown Des Moines
- Megan Hunt discussed BarCamp Omaha on her Princess Lasertron blog: Get registered for Barcamp 2010! I’m so excited to speak this year!
- Aayush Phumbhra of Chegg (based in Santa Clara, California, founded in Ames, Iowa) interviewed by Beyond the Pedway: Creating The Textbook Rental Industry – With Aayush Phumbhra, Founder Of Chegg.com
