What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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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Lead Read

"Kebbel accepts mobile media role, resigns as dean" - The University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced that Gary Kebbel will resign from his position as dean of Journalism and Mass Communications to lead a university-wide multidisciplinary initiative related to mobile media

Quotable

"We are start-up people running an agency. For us, funding is a natural part of scaling our business." - Joe Olsen on his decision to raise capital when founding Phenomblue - Marketing Agency Insider

Career Moves

• Paige Yowell and Kelsey Supenski, seniors at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Sarah Binder, a recent graduate of Iowa State University, joined Silicon Prairie News as summer interns - SPN
• Brandon DeMartino will join T8 Webware on June 18th as a developer
• Gary Kebbel will resign as the dean of Journalism and Mass Communications at University of Nebraska-Lincoln on June 30 to lead the university's mobile media initiative - Press Release and Omaha World-Herald

New Creative

• Web Spec Design redesigned its website - webspecdesign.com

Mentions

• Joe Olsen of Phenomblue - The Insider Series: Q&A with Joe Olsen, Phenomblue - Marketing Agency Insider
• Sporting Innovations - The Mag Interview | Robb Heineman lives the Sporting KC life - Kansas City Star
• Amanda Morrow of BitMethod - BitMethod’s Morrow celebrates one year at helm of Design+Tech - Des Moines Register
• Matt Mueller of Hudl - Interview - Jack & John Podcast
• Brian Solis Event Motivates Silicon Prairie to Think Local, Act Dynamic - CDS Global
• Co-working spaces give startups a boost - Des Moines Register

Gig Bits

Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.

• Google Fiber Coming Soon…So What? - Kansas City Public Media
• Google Gigabyte to Help Kansas City Libraries Close Digital Divide - The Digital Shift

Recognition

• Alex Taub of Dwolla's New York office was named one of Business Insiders "25 People Every New Founder Should Meet In New York Tech"

Blogged

• How to get designers to come to your hackathon - Shane Reiser
• Meet the Mentor: Dan Shipton - StartupCity Des Moines
• What I learned in Boulder - Christian Renaud
• Rockupied Mission - Rockupied

Misc.

• Kansas City IT Professionals wrote about its Hack the Midwest winner - Part 2 and Part 3
• Sojern research reveals national travel trends - Press Release
• At Kansas City event, man who came up with iMac name tells what the 'i' stands for - Kansas City Business Journal

Credits: Screenshot from unl.edu