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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.

Fundings

• Kickanotch Mobile (Prairie Village, Kan.), a mobile media application and ad network solution, raised a Series A round of $1.1 million: Press Release, TechCrunch, Vator News and SPN

Career Moves

• Marq Manner and Kick Narl joined VoterTide (Omaha)
• Kelsey Dempsey joined Deal Garden (Omaha)
• Kyle Murphy of Hudl (Lincoln, Neb.) was promoted to Vice President - User Experience, formerly User Experience Manager

New Tech

• Red Nova Labs (Westwood, Kan.) launched Mystery Ball, an adventure/strategy game for iOS - Press Release
• DocLanding (Omaha), a cloud service that allows users to capture, store, search and share their digital documents with anyone, rolled out its iOS app - itunes.apple.com

New Creative

• SecretPenguin (Omaha) launched a social gift card website for the Flagship Restaurant Group - Get | Give and Nebraska Creative
• Far Reach Technologies (Cedar Falls) created a website for the University of Northern Iowa Dance Marathon - UNI Dance Marathon and Far Reach

Product/Business Development

• Dwolla (Des Moines) rolled out "major changes" to its registration - blog.dwolla.com
• Deal Garden (Omaha) moved into a new office - 212 South 74th St
• SmartyPig (West Des Moines, Iowa) moved into a new office - 1271 8th St, Suite 600
• VoterTide (Omaha) moved into its first office - 120th & Center
• T8 Webware (Cedar Falls, Iowa) rolled out a new administrative portal for its Cre8 My Card - businesswire.com

Mentions

• Google in Kansas City - Wall Street Journal: "Google Ponders Pay-TV Business", Fox 4 KC: "Google to Bring Television Service to Kansas City?" and Kansas City Business Journal: "KCADC annual meeting points to future 'powered by Google' "
• BetaBlox - Entrepreneurs Unpluggd: "A Look At BetaBlox Startup Accelerator In Kansas City"
• Red Nova Labs (Westwood, Kan.) - Kansas City Business Journals: "Tech startup Red Nova hopes to have a ball with iPhone games"
• MAKE Collaboration's (Lincoln. Neb.) Prop - The Next Web: "You’ll want this: 'The Prop', a smart, portable laptop stand"
• Gique Gear (Altoona, Iowa) - The Gadgeteer: "GiqueGEAR Smart Station Holster/Stand Review"
• Sojern (Omaha) - Ottawa Citizen: "Don't trash that boarding pass"
• OneLouder (Kansas City) - MacWorld: "Review: SportCaster, PlayUp share the agony of defeat"
• Hudl (Lincoln) - Wyoming Tribune Eagle: "Digital world"
• Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson of Silicon Prairie News - Norfolk Daily News: "Young Nebraskans address perceptions of state"

Blogged

• Zaarly: "Behind the Curtain: What is Project Management?"

Misc.

• Jeff Slobotski of Silicon Prairie News has been nominated to serve on the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce's board of directors in the one-year small business representative position
• KCADC and SITAKS join efforts to establish regional IT and technology council- Press Release
• GoogleConnectsKC.com went live, a website that helps KCK and KCMO residents stay current on the latest about the Google fiber project - googleconnectskc.com
• Zaarly (San Francisco-based, Kansas City office) was awarded the "Hottest Location-Based Startup" by The LOCALS awards - marketwatch.com
• Phenomblue's (Omaha) I Smell Brains app featured as FWA's Mobile of the Day - FWA and more.phenomblue.com
• Charise Flynn of Dwolla and Tiffany Pesek of SmartyPig were named finalists for 2011 Pioneer Hi-Bred Iowa Women of Innovation Awards - Technology Association of Iowa