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.

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Career Moves

• Heath Gerlock, formerly of 5Q Communications, joined Salus Novus (Omaha) as Product & Business Channel Manager

Product/Business Development

• Swappa (Kansas CIty) rolled out a mobile-friendly version of its website – Swappa blog
• Startup Models (Des Moines) updated one of its models and made an ebook available – Startup Models blog
• Moblico Solutions released latest version of Scanit app – moblico.com

Mentions

• Pipeline Innovator of the Year event (Kansas City) – Kansas City Business Journal: “Pipeline entrepreneur program honors AudioAnywhere, names new class” and SPN
• Startup Kansas – The Topeka-Capital Journal: “Effort to help Kansas startups launching Tuesday“
• Startup Iowa – Business 380: “Startup Fair will showcase Corridor entrepreneurs, products, services“
• Tikly (Des Moines) – Des Moines Register: “Peterson to open Tikly to bands directly“
• Legal Sonar (Kansas City) – Kansas City Business Journal: “Legal Sonar uses social networks to link lawyers, clients“
• AgLocal (Overland Park, Kan.) – Food & Tech: “AgLocal Bringing Power to the Meat Lover“
• Zave Networks – IT ProPortal: “Google Spent Almost $2 Billion on Buyouts in 2011“
• EyeVerify (Kansas City) – Kansas City Business Journal: “Entrepreneur Rush eyeballs new biometric security idea“
• Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Big 5 – Kansas City Business Journal: “Big 5 ideas make early progress, Greater Kansas City Chamber says” and KCTV 5: “Progress report on the ‘Big 5’ ” (2:55 mark)
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City) – Kansas City Business Journal: “Kauffman Foundation prepares to kick off Super Bowl spot“
• Cancer Survivorship Training (Lawrence, Kan.) – Leavenworth Times: “Leavenworth native spearheads new KU startup“
• Jacht Club (Lincoln, Neb.) – Lincoln Journal Star: “Student ad agency grows clients, trains students“
• Iowa general – Des Moines Register: “More credits sought for Iowa startups” and Spencer Daily Reporter: “StartupCity Spencer?“

Blogged

• Gabe Kangas (Omaha): “Another adventure begins. Goodbye Omaha.“
• StartupCity Des Moines: “Meet the Intern: Austin Hoffman“
• Pipeline (Kansas City): “A Day and Night of Pipeline ‘Innovator of the Year’ 2012” (Video)
• Hudl (Lincoln): “We’ve Got Spirit, Yes We Do“

Misc.

• AgLocal (Overland Park, Kan.) was named a South by Southwest Interactive Accelerator Finalist – sxsw.com
• Chicago Ideas Week videos, which include Ben Milne of Dwolla (Des Moines) and former Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation president Carl Shramm (Kansas City), were posted – chicagoideas.com
• The race team LiveOn (Kansas City) sponsored won the Rolex 24 at Daytona – twitter.com and photos

Image credit: Photo by Theresa Wysocki via Flickr