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Facebook Parent Meta Lays Off 11,000: What CIOs Should Know

Facebook’s parent company Meta is laying off 13% of its workforce, a week after another social media giant, Twitter, laid off half of its employees. What do these moves say about tech trends going forward and the tech labor market in 2023?

Outside Magazine – The 50 Best Places to Work in 2022 – In Montana: #36. commonFont, #45. TOMIS Holdings, Inc.,

In a post-pandemic world, workers are demanding remote flexibility, more time off, and generous health benefits. These are the companies meeting that bar and more, while encouraging their employees to live an active lifestyle and allowing them to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

TED Talks – How Global Virtual Communities Can Help Kids Achieve Their Dreams

How this 21-year-old is rewriting the rules of education

The Top Existential Threats to Entrepreneurship

America’s inability to solve a host of basic issues isn’t just making life hard for entrepreneurs–it’s killing their potential. Here, eight founders and CEOs sound off on the stopgaps they’ve adopted to get by.

American Plumber Stories TV show features Williams Plumbing of Bozeman, Montana

American Plumber Stories features Williams Plumbing in their latest season

60 Minutes – Social media’s role in America’s polarized political climate

Social media is a showcase of our anger; an analysis by the New York Times this fall found that online use of the phrase “civil war” has exploded.

Now, leading voices in academia and tech are saying that rather than simply reflecting the polarization in society, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are helping to create it.

Center for Humane Technology – Together we must Align Technology with Humanity’s Best Interests

Our social media environment is broken. Want a roadmap to help fix it?

In one state, every class teaches climate change — even P.E. – Will your state be the second to do this?

The first state in the country to adopt learning standards obligating teachers to instruct kids about climate change across grade levels and subjects. The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergartners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Supporters say the instruction is necessary to prepare younger generations for a world — and labor market — increasingly reshaped by climate change.

Applications are open for the $125,000 Youth Serve Montana Scholarships in 2023

This year’s scholarship is being offered to high school students in two awards, $1,000 for 50 hours of volunteer service and $1,500 for 100 hours of volunteer service. The scholarships will be offered to 100 Montana seniors attending Montana Campus Compact member institutions next fall.