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.
Career Moves
- Geoff Wood joined Palisade Systems (Des Moines) – via palisadesystems.com/blog
- John Gustafson of Ideation Ventures recently took over management of the Prairie Ventures portfolio (Omaha) – via linkedin.com/in/ideationventures
- Caroline Moore left Creighton University and joined Halo Institute, Nomad Lounge, and Omaha Fashion Week (Omaha) – via email
- New Digital Group joined the Turbine Flats Project (Lincoln) – via turbineflats.org
Press Coverage
- SmartyPig (Des Moines) mentioned in CBS MoneyWatch.com article: Facebook and Beyond: Social Networks for Saving Money
- Nebraska-native Jon Staenberg interviewed on Mixergy.com: The Contagious Energy Of The Man Who Invested In Evite, Stubhub & Other Pioneers
- Christopher Norton of 510 Cinema (Omaha) featured in Metro Magazine’s June 2010 YP Connections: YP Profile
Product Development
- Phileena Heuertz, director of Word Made Flesh (Omaha), released her first book Pilgrimage of a Soul: Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life – via wordmadeflesh.org/updates
- What Cheer (Omaha) launched North Downtown website – via necreative.typepad.com
- Agile Sports Technologies (Licoln) signed up new clients – via journalstar.com
- Ninth Division (Omaha) presented at the iPad / iPhone Business Seminar at the Apple Store, Village Point – via ninthdivision.com/blog
- Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle proclaimed September 5-11 Omaha Creative Week – via twitter.com/omacreativeweek
Big Omaha
- Justin Shaffer‘s startup, Hot Potato (New York), covered by TechCrunch: Hot Potato 2.0 Lets You “Check-In” While You’re Doing Anything
- Conference design partner Oxide Design (Omaha) posted Big Omaha 2010 identity [part 2] to their company blog
Misc.
- The Great Omaha Pillow Fight: Part DEUX! took place this past Sunday: photos – via flickr.com/photos/programmerman
- Silicon prairie mentioned in the McCook Daily Gazette
- South by Southwest PanelPicker opened for submissions
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