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What is Prairie Moves?
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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.
If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact danny@siliconprairienews.com.
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Career Moves
- Ed Kuklenski joined the Enterprise Center of Johnson County as Entrepreneur-In-Residence – ecjc.com
- Michelle Rierson, Lisa McCallan and Jennifer Fisher joined Bozell as project and small business manager, connection planner and part of the brand navigation and account management department, respectively
New Tech
- Move Creative (Lincoln) released a free iPad app for the Nebraska State Fair that doubles as an on-site kiosk for the 2011 event in Grand Island – itunes.apple.com
- iapps24 (West Des Moines, Iowa) launches the Invitere – prweb.com
Product/Business Deveopment
- Dwolla (Des Moines) is beginning to phase out its use of its “.org” – blog.dwolla.com – and updated its Android app with social sharing – blog.dwolla.com
- Pongr (Boston-based, Des Moines office) updated its notifications, photostream and more – blog.pongr.com
- Eliason Media (Urbandale, Iowa) redesigned Gordilla, a daily deals aggregator – gordilla.com and blog.eliasonmedia.com
- appendTo (Evergreen, Colorado-based, Omaha office) released data showing that the percentage of websites that have jQuery deployed has officially surpassed the percentage of websites that have Adobe Flash deployed – appendto.com
- SmartyPig Australia (Des Moines) made upgrades to its design, funding source verification and more – blog.smartypig.com.au
- Omaha Game Developers Association redesigned its website – omahagamedev.com
Media Mentions
- NotifyWorks (Des Moines) – Des Moines Register: “Biz Buzz: Keep your B’s, I’s straight, golfers“
- Dwolla (Des Moines) – GigaOm: “GigaOM’s Mobile Payments 25“
- TechBrew Iowa – Cedar Valley Business Monthly: “Event brews up technology business in area“
- Delinea (Omaha) – Omaha World-Herald: “A flair for steady growth“
- SmartyPig (Des Moines) – Voice of America News: “Websites Show Young People How to Save“
- Zaarly (Omaha) – Forbes Technology: “Social Power and the Coming Corporate Revolution” and Programmable Web: “Breaking Down E-Commerce APIs“
- Green’ Bein Productions and Nanonation (both of Lincoln) – Nebraska Entrepreneur: “Junior Achievement of Lincoln launches new high school focused program“
- Hudl (Lincoln, Neb.) – Daily Herald (Chicago): “Technology changing the way teams watch films“, Island Packet (South Carolina): “Coaches going hi-tech with film study these days” and Oregon Live: “Prep football: Online video service gives coaches new teaching tools“
- Davis Brown Law Firm’s Start-Up Launchpad – Des Moines Register: “Website intends to help startups skip legal pitfalls“
- ShareWhere (Des Moines) – Killer Startups: “ShareWhere.com – Plan Events With Friends“
Misc.
- Dwolla (Des Moines) and Zaarly (San Francisco-based, Kansas City office) will be will be presenting at Ad Age Digital West on September 20 – adage.com
- appendTo’s (Evergreen, Colorado-based, Omaha office) senior designer, Doug Neiner moved this past week from Pittsfield, Mass. to Cumberland, Iowa
- Three Pillars Media (Lincoln, Neb.) were the recipients of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award – threepillarmedia.com/blog
