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Fall 2015 Gilkey Executive Lecture BlogHer CEO Lisa Stone, 12/1, Missoula, Montana http://www.matr.net/ev ... =5715
Big Sky Economic Development
Northwestern Energy
- Big Sky Economic Development: BSED and its investors are building a strong community
We want to hear your ideas and add to our list. What do you believe should be on the Building Remarkable Imperative list?
Spika Welding & Mfg Inc
- NorthWestern Energy acts to protect customers
Together, NorthWestern and our customers have proactively invested more than $1 billion in renewable energy in recent years. The plan, as it stands now, doesn't recognize any of those investments.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- Why Spika
Get us on the phone and we'll give you 1,000 reasons why we believe our products and service are far superior to anything else on the market.
Energy and Climate Change
- Montana Office of Tourism - Travel and Marketing Trends for Montana - November 2015
Service providers in the travel industry are adding an element of surprise to their offerings - mystery vacations.
Great Falls Development Authority
- Will 2016 be the year of wireless energy?
Wireless power has been a dream of mankind's for decades.
- Better batteries to beat global warming: A race against time
If batteries can get better, cheaper and store more power safely, then electric cars and solar- or wind- powered homes become more viable -- even on cloudy days or when the wind isn't blowing.
- The great thaw - The Disappearing Glaciers at Glacier National Park
If you want to see it, you'd better hurry. Grinnell Glacier is disappearing -- fast.
- Triboelectric Generators Harvest Mechanical Energy
He believes the discovery can provide a new way to power mobile devices such as sensors and smartphones by capturing the otherwise wasted mechanical energy from such sources as walking, the wind blowing, vibration, ocean waves or even cars driving by.
TechLink
- GFDA Top 12 for 11/22/15
The Great Falls Tribune will host our next Forward Great Falls Investor Development Coffee on Friday, December 4, 7:00 AM at the Tribune. Contact Jolene Bach for more info at [email protected]
Come Home Montana
- TechLink Completes Air Force SBIR/STTR Economic Impact Study
TechLink recently completed the first-ever comprehensive analysis of the economic impacts of a federal SBIR program, in collaboration with the Business Research Division of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Montana Business
- Montana Career Opportunity - Drafter - Spika Welding & Mfg Inc.
Each employee on our team takes ownership in the product we build and has pride in the craftsmanship we offer.
Careers
- 7-year-old businessman Jacob Studer gives back to the community through his company Billings Best Hiking Sticks
But when asked about his favorite part about the whole experience, Jacob told us; "Selling. I am a salesman".
- From the Editor: For Rock Creek Coffee Roasters, hard work leads to national recognition
Fortunately, specialty coffee shops like Rock Creek have educated Americans about good coffee.
- Montana's unemployment insurance rate going down
The state Labor Department says Montana's unemployment insurance contribution rate will drop from an average of 1.52 percent of wages to 1.12 percent for 2016.
Come Home North Dakota
- 7 Secrets That Will Make You Much More Likable
If you want something you've never had, then you've got to do something you've never done.
- How To Give A TED-Worthy Talk
Professionals with big ideas and big ambition want to know: how can I become a TED speaker, or at least sound as good as one?
- Why Attitude Is More Important Than Intelligence
When it comes to success, it's easy to think that people blessed with brains are inevitably going to leave the rest of us in the dust.
Government
- 'Find the Good Life' campaign in North Dakota is connecting, but more private investment needed
Overcoming negative perceptions of North Dakota and attracting new workers and families to the state were top goals when Hess Corp. joined state officials in March 2014 to launch the "Find the Good Life in North Dakota" workforce development campaign.
Idaho Business
- How Tennessee Transformed the Way It Hires and Fires People
"It's not enough to change laws and processes and then sit back and hope everything works out for the best."
Incubators and R&D
- Idaho wages 50th in nation as inflation-adjusted wages fall in Boise
Boise is among the nation's bottom 10 mid-sized metro areas for wage growth, among both the lowest- and highest-paid workers
Other Economies
- Sandia Labs lay foundations for commercialization center
"We're working with the local community in a common effort to start up companies, expand businesses and attract new ones to New Mexico. That collaborative effort sends a strong message to industry that we all want to work together to get more technologies deployed."
Washington State Business
- After a Town Suffered a Terrible Tragedy, These Entrepreneurs Brought It Back to Life
"You know how you see an old sidewalk, and it's cracked, and there's a flower growing out of it?" asks Kelly Dyches. "It's kind of like that," she says
Montana Education Excellence
- Spokane on track to add 6,000 jobs this year
"The majority of new jobs are in industries that pay higher than average for all industries," Tweedy added, including health care, transportation and warehousing, and professional, scientific and financial activities.
Community
- University of Montana's plan to cut programs, teachers doesn't solve problem
If UM is going to teach fewer liberal arts classes, what does it plan to offer students that MSU does not? These cuts seem to imagine a future in which MSU is for engineering and UM is for football.
Funding and Building your Business
- Missoula sets sights on 2035 with new growth policy
Missoula turned the page on the past and set its sights on the future by passing a new growth policy on Monday night - one that envisions transportation hubs, inward growth and economic gain for the next 20 years.
- The Detached iHome of the Future
Innovations in both technology and methods can empower the consulting industry to create neighborhoods and housing that matches the progress of other industries, like those that are creating mobile phones, cars, and medicines.
Connectivity & Communications
- 3 Pitches That Will Have Investors Begging You to Take Their Money
Three VCs note the best pitches they've ever received and what you can learn from them.
- A Snapshot of the Emerging Entrepreneur
The Kauffman Foundation interviewed thirty-five EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2015 winners in the emerging category from across the country.
- Veteran Angel Investor Explains Startup Funding Strategies in New Kauffman Founders School Videos
Entrepreneurs learn the keys to working with angel investors from one of America's leading experts
- 14 Hot Web Design Trends From 2015
In 2015, web design moved away from information overload to an aesthetic revolving around empty space and simplicity.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- Will Google's parent test Project Loon in the U.S.?
Is Google parent company Alphabet planning to test high-altitude balloons to deliver Internet coverage across the United States?
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- A Great Thanksgiving Video
A Very Happy Thanksgiving! May you always have so much for which to be thankful.
Transportation
- How to save money using Google Maps overseas
Users can now download a particular area or region to their phone, and if they lose connectivity, the app will still let them conduct destination searches, obtain turn-by-turn driving directions and find information about specific places along the way.
- SF Hackathon Explores Ideas for Citywide Internet of Things Network
San Francisco has made itself a blank canvas for the Internet of Things, and creators have now begun to trace the beginnings of paintings on it.
- Montana Web Cams
Good idea to check these before you travel in Montana
- Federal officials moving toward embracing self-driving cars
"I want the posture of our agency to be obviously vigilant on the safety front, but I don't want our agency to be skittish about innovations that are out there." Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx
- Car-insurance study settles it: Montana has worst drivers
Big Sky Country ranks tops for speeding, sixth for careless driving and eighth for failure to obey traffic laws.
- What happens when cities and states try to prepare for self-driving cars
"A technology tsunami."
- Analytics Poised to Take Guesswork Out of Transportation Planning
This level of detail in an impact analysis of a major public transit project is something Chakrabarti and his fellow researchers could not find in the world of planning research.
- Great Falls airport: Record number of passengers
The biggest boost, of some 20,000 boardings, occurred after the Airport Authority, with financial commitments from area businesses, recruited Frontier Airlines to fly summer routes between Great Falls and Denver in 2012.
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