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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Feb 10, 2015 |
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future the he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived."
Missoula's economy is booming - Mayor John Engen at City Club Missoula http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html --- Hellgate Venture Network Event Zachary and Sarah Millar, founders of The Dram Shop , 2/12, Missoula, Montana http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
2014 Montana Politics & 2015 Legislature
Early Edge Montana
- Conservative Group Targets Kalispell Lawmaker Over Medicaid
Koch Industries-founded Americans for Prosperity gains little traction with Kalispell crowd
- Montana Governor sounds warning on multiple tax cut proposals
"We're almost a billion dollars upside down," Bullock told reporters Friday. "Over $440 million in tax cuts that are alive, as well as the difference in revenue estimates ($359 million). A third of the way in, and they're striving to be a state like Wisconsin or Kansas or others that are completely upside down."
- How educating children early and well creates a ripple effect for us all
As research from Nobel economics laureate James J. Heckman has showed, early investment in disadvantaged children improves academic achievements, career prospects and, ultimately, their lifetime income, which brings in more tax dollars.
Sustainable Business Council
- Is Your First Grader College Ready?
Even if I am teaching preschool, the word 'college' has to be in there."
The Frontier Medicine Better Health Partnership
- Burning and building - Two Montana companies take a new approach to forest sustainability
The challenge lies in taking wood that is generally considered useless and selling it for profit.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- Why hackers are targeting the medical sector
Complete health insurance credentials sold for $20 a piece on underground markets in 2013, according to Dell SecureWorks. That is 10 to 20 times more than a U.S. credit card number with a security code.
Great Falls Development Authority
- Travel and Marketing Trends for Montana - February 2015
Latest Outlook from Montana Tourism Industry
- All 56: Solving Montana's 'traveling salesman' problem
Quick: What's the fastest way to visit all 56 Montana county seats?
Inteneo Systems
- Great Falls Development Authority Top 14 for 2/9/15
If you know of a business or developer who could use help getting their plans off the ground, PLEASE refer them to our team. We're here to help you make things happen!
Come Home Montana
- Predictive Analytics Crucial In Human Relations
If employers want to innovate, and lead, and not be left behind, they need to commit to competing on talent analytics. Today. This year. Not next year.
- Using Predictive Analytics to Build Marketing Response Type Models
Another good example is tenure. We often find that customer behavior is often U-shaped with this variable which implies that newer and longer-tenured customers tend to be loyal, while the middle group or more average tenure type customers tend to be less loyal.
- How Predictive Analytics is Making Walmart a Better Employer
The consistent predictive modeling platform across the different analytics disciplines: customer, patient, security, real estate, etc., significantly aids in the establishment of an analytics ecosystems and foster cross-functional collaboration.
- 4 New Customer Loyalty Rules Drive Business Success
You need to take advantage of innovative new tools, like the Word of Mouth Index (WoMI) from ForeSee, and the analytic power of Big Data to gain a competitive advantage today, and predict customer behavior for tomorrow.
- Profiting from the data revolution: how to become a smart business
There's absolutely no point identifying metrics and data that can help answer smart questions and applying the analytics to come up with those answers, if the answers are then buried in a 50-page report that no one reads or understand. Finding a way to report the results quickly, clearly and engagingly is crucial to any smart business.
- It's a Whole New Data Game for Business
What do you do when the data that you want to analyze are actually in different places?
- The Secret to Making Magic at Macy's - Human Resources Metrics and Analytics
Come learn how Macy's has developed tools to effectively share Human Capital data across our organization swiftly and effectively, allowing stakeholders to make business decisions in a flash.
Leadership Montana
- Montana Career Opportunities - Consultants - commonFont
As a Consultant, you'll be an expert in understanding and connecting clients' business needs to Medallia system capabilities.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Economic Development Manager - JLL Rail Practice Group
This individual will be accountable for managing the project support services for the client's Regional Economic Development Managers in their efforts to provide site and facility location services to prospective companies within an assigned geographic region.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Network Engineer, Unified Communications - CompuNet
CompuNet focuses on implementing data center, collaboration and borderless network security wired & wireless solutions offering senior level engineering resources to ensure successful planning & deployment.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Real Estate Loan Officer, Administrative Support /Accounting position - Missoula Federal Credit Union
The simple Credit Union Philosophy, "People helping people."
Montana Business
- How to find time to develop your leadership skills
Since it's easy to be overwhelmed and unsure of where to start, I've found it helpful to focus on several key steps.
MSU Leadership Institute & UM Global Leadership Initiative
- Great Harvest Bread - How Can I Be Generous and Profitable With My Local Retail Bakery?
Watch our bakery ownership webinar to learn more about how you can do good and do good business with Great Harvest
- Scenery or salary? Summit highlights importance of outdoors to Montana's economy
While Montana's outdoor amenities are often cited as a primary reason for residence, many businesses are able to use the landscape and lifestyle to bolster the state's often lower salaries to hire better employees.
- Roscoe - Great Pants for the Great Outdoors - Designed, Developed, and Tested in Red Lodge, Montana
Designed, Developed, and Tested in Red Lodge, MT
TEDx Events in Montana
- A 6-Year-Old Asks Neil DeGrasse Tyson An Adorable Question. He Gives Her An Awesome Answer.
I recently spent some time with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. He's known not only for breaking down stereotypes about what kinds of people go into science, but he has actively stood up and spoken against those who would close its doors, especially to young women.
Careers
- TED Video - Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes
No person could draft them by hand, but they're buildable -- and they could revolutionize the way we think of architectural form.
Come Home Idaho
- Facebook, LinkedIn join to help women in tech
"If everybody who creates a product looks the same, you know the results won't be nearly as interesting. We want for the sake of our future to have women involved in all the projects that will change our lives."
- Getting to work: Nonprofit Volunteers of America helps displaced veterans find jobs
"Basically we're out there being a veteran advocate and trying to get them back on their feet,"
- Facebook's Sandberg: Women engineers should Lean In
"We want to change the numbers in leadership, in every industry. If you think of where our economy is head, it has to be math."
- Google executives explain why the MBA approach to building things is 'stupid'
Former senior vice president Jonathan Rosenberg explained how cofounder Larry Page first schooled him in the Google approach to business product: Design things for unexpected results.
Next Generation Broadband in Montana
- Idaho Career Opportunity - System Engineer Level I/II/III, IT Project Manager, Senior Security Architect and more... - CompuNet
CompuNet focuses on implementing data center, collaboration and borderless network security wired & wireless solutions offering senior level engineering resources to ensure successful planning & deployment.
Rural Communities
- NYC's Plan for Free, Citywide Wi-Fi
Is it a plan other cities can copy?
City Club Missoula
- University of Idaho student's survey: Absence of entertainment options, job opportunities behind rural exodus
The research also identified various "population cliffs" where certain services or characteristics became a concern.
Come Home Utah
- Missoula's economy is booming - Mayor John Engen at City Club Missoula
"We have as much reason to be optimistic as we have in the last decade or longer."
Idaho Business
- Utah Career Opportunity - Cisco Voice Administrator Level I/II, Inside Sales Representative, Senior Collaboration Engineer and more... - CompuNet
CompuNet focuses on implementing data center, collaboration and borderless network security wired & wireless solutions offering senior level engineering resources to ensure successful planning & deployment.
Regional Economic Development
- Idaho solar dispute shouldn't be like wind war
The last time Idaho Power butted heads with alternative energy developers, it was ugly.
University of Montana & Montana State University Tech Transfer
- Creative Placemaking
This issue of the Community Development Investment Review explores creative placemaking: what it is, how it's done, how it's measured, funded, and experienced.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- UM Brain Disorder Research Moves Toward Clinical Testing - Promentis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
The UM team's patented research shows promise for treating various disorders of the brain. Equipped with expertise and resources not available at UM, Promentis Pharmaceuticals will advance the patented research to a clinical setting.
Montana Education Excellence
- How Elementary School Teachers' Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science
A new study points to the influence of teachers' unconscious biases, but it also highlights how powerful a little encouragement can be.
Community
- Helena Public Schools works to connect at-risk students with resources
"Anybody can say, 'I've got a concern for a student,'"
Funding and Building your Business
- Priced out: Bozeman housing market hits young professionals hard
It's unclear how -- or whether -- the tools available to local government can pull the housing market's interlaced web of economics, regulation and community values toward affordability without stretching its strands to the point of failure.
Energy and Climate Change
- Popular craft bloggers share secrets of success
It may look easy and lucrative from the outside, but popular craft bloggers say their work requires long hours and commitment.
- CIOs Face the 'Age of the Customer'
It's about the people who work for you. Do they have the actual ability to think about the customer.
Connectivity & Communications
- "Is Solar the Next Shale?"
"Just as shale extraction reconfigured oil and gas, no other technology is closer to transforming power markets than distributed and utility scale solar," writes Prajit Ghosh, an energy analyst at Wood MacKenzie and the study's primary author.
Government Technology
- Fiber Optic Internet From Treasure State Internet - Pre-register for up to 1 Gbps in your home or office
Sign up today and get fiber optic Internet installed to your home in summer 2015. There's no money down AND you get $100 off your installation when we to hook you up.
- Google is serious about taking on telecom. Here's why it'll win.
Google has a key advantage: It doesn't make its money from Internet service subscribers.
Non-Profit News
- 10 Leadership Skills for Sustained Innovation (Industry Perspective)
What about state and local governments?
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- 20 Ways To Thank Your Donors Throughout The Year
If you're a nonprofit, every day is Thanksgiving...or should be.
Transportation
- 'Cut Bank' movie trailer teases tense thriller
The quality of the film's cast, which includes Liam Hemsworth, John Malkovich (who, during a break from filming in Canada actually paid a visit to the real Cut Bank), Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Pratt, has recommended it since production was announced.
- 5 Mobile Parking Apps to Help Cities Ease Traffic Congestion
To get a glimpse at a few of these notable technologies making headway, here are five apps and platforms of note.
- The Curious Case of Apple's Supposed Self-Driving Car
Are there any signs Apple could be working on more advanced car technologies? Actually, yes.
- Connected Bicycles Tell Cars: Don't Run Me Over
How sensors--and Big Data--can prevent bicycle fatalities.
- Behind the wheel of Toyota's futuristic electric iRoad
It handles like a compact car, but moves like a motorcycle.
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