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| MATR Newsletter - Mon Jun 17, 2013 |
"…we must give children a chance at success even before they reach Kindergarten.” Alabama Governor Robert Bentley
The Main Street Montana Project - All Are Invited, 6/19, Miles City, Montana http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html --- Invest in early childhood development - 'To Small to Fail' http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html --- 300 National Business Leaders on the Record for Early Education http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
GigaPOP in Missoula
- Anatomy Of A License: Tips, Traps And Best Practices Presented By BPCN, MSU And Dorsey & Whitney, 6/26, Bozeman, MT
Expert licensing and international attorneys Michael McCormick and Kevin Maler will walk you through key issues and point out traps for the unwary.
- Anatomy Of A License: Tips, Traps And Best Practices Presented By UM And Dorsey & Whitney, 6/27, Missoula, MT
Expert licensing and international attorneys Michael McCormick and Kevin Maler will walk you through key issues and point out traps for the unwary.
Northwestern Energy
- Request for Qualification (FRQ) to perform a joint City of Missoula-Missoula County Next Generation Broadband Feasibility Study
The Feasibility Study will provide information that local government needs to make strategic decisions on investing in and encouraging broadband infrastructure and making policies that will encourage fiber broadband services that meet local needs.
PrintingForLess
- Montana Industries Work Together to Transform Market through Energy Efficiency Knowledge and Savings
"Through their participation in the cohort program, these organizations are helping Montana and the Northwest improve our energy performance and their own bottom line. And, they're meeting other dedicated people doing similar work - and having a great time working together!" said Bob Rowe, CEO, NorthWestern Energy.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- Cat Scratch Fever
Generate interest and make a connection by using scratch-off on your next marketing piece.
Great Falls Development Authority
- Cherry Picking, Flathead Fishing and Lakeside Brews in Montana
Once you've gotten your Glacier National Park fill, set to work on the rest of the region's draws.
Inteneo Systems
- GFDA Urges Support of School Levy
We urge you to support the school levy, in every way you can, because we need great schools to have a great economy.
Come Home Montana
- Oh the places we'll go: Humana director offers glimpse of what faster data access could do for healthcare
"I think you see hospitals getting to that tipping point of being able to share data we are early in bringing data together. We will be in adolescence in another couple of years."
- Five Ways Big Data is Useful to CFOs
With the right planning and leadership, finance executives can use Big Data analytics to drive, not just report, profitable growth.
- Recruiting Analytical Talent Requires Cultural Change
"Basic analytics are table stakes now"
- Yellowfin ranks first in Dresner's 2013 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study
"A member of the 'Emerging' market segment, Yellowfin was its leader again for 2013, improving scores in virtually all categories vs. 2012," stated the report. "It was 'best in class' for all measures in all categories and had a perfect Recommend score."
Hellgate Venture Network
- Montana Career Opportunities - Butte & Havre - System Administrator - LAN administration, Help Desk - First Call Computer Solutions
We are looking for straightforward, hard working people who enjoy IT and want to help people and businesses in Butte and Havre and the surrounding areas.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Senior Staff Accountant - ALPS
The senior staff accountant is responsible for all production of the ALPS Corporation financial statements
- Montana Career Opportunity - Web Application Developer - World Wide Idea
We build our applications in Ruby using the Ruby on Rails web application framework.
- Return of the Rocky Mountain high - Bozeman, Montana
Towns in the Mountain West, once held back by their isolated geography, are luring a new generation because of their scenic beauty. The hub of the 'Green Coast' movement: Bozeman, Montana.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Business Intelligence Technical Analyst, ETL/Data Mart Administrator - Washington Corporations
The Washington Companies are a vibrant group of individual and independently operated companies in which Montana businessman Den nis R. Washington directly or indirectly holds significant ownership position. Each company displays a unique entrepreneurial spirit that is individually cultured and managed by professional management teams that are guided by separate Boards of Directors.
Montana Business
- Hellgate Venture Network - Walker Milhoan, Estancia IX, 6/20, Missoula, Montana
"Our next meeting is on Thursday June 20. This month's speaker is Walker Milhoan, founder of Estancia IX, a new web start up focused on providing a web-based ranch management platform.
Montana Economic Development
- Skate Ramp Parts is Shred Ready - Columbia Falls business distributes skate-ramp kits, materials internationally
Skate Ramp Parts ships internationally, sending the custom designs, ramp kits and specialized materials to customers who use them to build backyard half-pipes, small-town skate parks and X-Game style competition ramps.
- Montana-based Mamalode Brings Parenting Respite to the World, with Skype
"It's a fabulous way to work with partners and other businesses," says Gilels. "The ability to use voice and video features gives us a lot of flexibility in how we want to connect."
- Montana AG urges House to oppose online sales tax
State Attorney General Tim Fox is teaming up with his counterparts in two other states without sales taxes to fight the Internet sales tax bill before the U.S. House.
- Wildfire Season 2013 Is Here - EverLog™ Systems' concrete log homes
As you plan your next log house or cabin, keep these wildfire issues in mind.
Warren Miller Freedom Foundation
- Montana Food and Agriculture Development Center RFP
This RFP is for professional services for the Food and Agriculture Development Center Program to provide specialized technical assistance to Montana's value-added food, farm-derived renewable energy and other businesses that add value to agricultural products and resources.
- Montana offers cash grants to lure more movie, TV shoots
The program, which launched earlier this year, targets feature-length films and television series that shoot at least 50% of principal photography in Montana.
Careers
- We need to teach kids about entrepreneurship early on
Entrepreneurship teaches kids that there are always alternatives out there.
Government
- Does Your Resume Tell a Compelling Story?
Resumes often reflect what, on the surface, may look like a scattered career that lacks focus.
- Many knowledge-based jobs go blue collar
he study found that nearly a third of all jobs requiring extensive STEM knowledge are filled by craft professionals or other blue-collar workers. And about half of all STEM jobs require a two-year associate's degree or less.
Idaho Business
- Montana Governor Bullock creates Equal Pay for Equal Work Task Force
He charged the task force with gathering information, furnishing advice and providing him with recommendations to close the pay equity gap here.
Other Economies
- Boise Start-up Silverback Learning Solutions Announces $2.5M Round to Transform K-12 Education with Student Achievement Platform
"Schools across the nation continue to strive for improved student outcomes through improved staff collaboration and efficiency, better access to data to inform instructional decisions, added structure and cohesiveness for Response to Intervention (RtI) processes, and more transparent and consistent benchmarking methods to discern student progress," said Dr. Jim Lewis, CEO of Silverback Learning Solutions.
- Boise mayor decries low wages in Idaho's capital city
Worse, Bieter said, the state seems content to sell itself as a cheap place to do business. He used as an example the state's efforts earlier this year to attract firearms manufacturers.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Next Stage Funding for "Growing Iowa's Own"
The Iowa Innovation Fund, fills the critical gap between angel and venture capital funding for emerging Iowa businesses.
- Want your government to foster a vibrant economy? See what North Carolina did
Hire an innovation and entrepreneurship manager.
Missoula Children's Theatre
- Invest in early childhood development - 'To Small to Fail'
We - and many others in the business community - believe that investing in our youngest children must be a priority. We all share a bottom-line interest in their success.
- Department of Ed announces new school competition
$300 million in potential competitive grants that would allow schools to redesign teaching, learning, and traditional seat time.
- High School Scientists Innovate New Medical Therapies
Heart attack therapies can leave patients with an elevated risk of future heart failure, but four California high school students have a solution.
- 300 National Business Leaders on the Record for Early Education
We ask our federal representatives and our business colleagues around the country to give all children the chance to fulfill their potential and create the best workforce and economy in the world.
- TED Video: Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
Help me design the School in the Cloud
Montana Education Excellence
- "An Evening With World Class Mime Bill Bowers", 6/28, Missoula, Montana
World class mime Bill Bowers performs at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. "An Evening with Bill Bowers" begins at 7:30 p.m. All tickets $20.
Community
- MSU, UM struggle to compete when salaries rank near bottom nationally
Montana ranks last in the nation for the average pay for full professors.
- Montana leads nation in increasing 2-year degrees
By investing in junior colleges, the Treasure State boasts a 6 percent rise in adult graduation rates over a span where the rest of the country showed an increase of less than 1 percent, according to census data.
Funding and Building your Business
- Gallatin Growth Solutions launches citizen initiative
The Gallatin Valley's population is poised to increase to more than 200,000 by 2050, according to 2010 U.S. Census data. And all that growth will inevitably impose challenges that a diverse group of residents hopes to address.
Energy and Climate Change
- Industry Program Payback: Do You Know What Your Clients Don't Know?
Does your firm have industry focused research programs that monitor and identify emerging industry trends as a means of developing thought leadership and identifying new service opportunities?
- Savvy Entrepreneurs Look for More Than Funding
Don't waste your resources on the wrong ones.
- 7 financial terms every serious entrepreneur should know
Startups forgo hiring a controller to manage the books and create financial reports because of "lean principles." But even if you aren't a finance major or don't employ one, it is every chief executive's responsibility to understand basic finance principles and how they can affect your business' bottom line.
- Big Sky Economic Development: Need help training your employees? Here's how
Incumbent Worker Training Grant
Connectivity & Communications
- Universities paid to reduce their energy consumption
Program enables colleges and universities to get paid to reduce their electric consumption for a period of time during the summer, mainly in response to electrical-grid peaks.
Non-Profit News
- Google launches Internet-beaming balloons
If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of laying fiber cable.
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- Missoula's Adventure Cycling to represent bicyclists in national park planning
"There've been a lot of studies showing the economic impact of bike tourism in national parks," Turnbull said. "If the Park Service was a business operator, which it's not, it would still look at bicyclists as: 'They come in, spend money and exert very little wear-and-tear on the park.' It's a win-win."
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Businesses pitching in for Montana Folk Festival set July 12-14
"The response has been tremendous to help us reach our goal to match this challenge."
- From country to metal, blues, and world music, Montana music festivals are growing
From Merle Haggard at the Red Ants Pants Festival to The Steve Miller Band and Blues Traveler at Magic City Blues and Tesla at Rockin' the Rivers, there is something for everyone at Montana's outdoor music festivals.
Transportation
- The Othermill: Custom Circuits at Your Fingertips
An easy to use, affordable, computer controlled mill. Take all your DIY projects further with custom circuits and precision machining.
- Amazon launches 3D printer section
If you're in the market for 3D printer hardware and supplies, you now have options from more than one major retailer.
- Gesture recognition in your entire home
University of Washington computer scientists have begun developing gesture-recognition technology which uses Wi-Fi signals to control sensor-based devices in the average household.
- Billings airport takes its own approach to attracting airlines
While many communities throughout the country have tried to expand their air service by offering financial incentives to airlines, Billings hasn't taken that step.
- Indianapolis plans largest electric carshare in U.S.
Bolloré Group announced this week that it plans to invest $35 million to launch an all-electric carsharing service in Indianapolis starting next year.
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