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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Sep 8, 2015 |
9/8/1966: "Star Trek" Premiered on TV - "Live long and prosper." - Take a moment to think of all the "wild" things from that short-lived TV show that are now everyday elements of our lives.
Big Sky Business Healthcare Forum, 9/9, Billings, Montana http://www.matr.net/ev ... =5563
Early Edge Montana
Montana Data Focused Business Cluster
- Politicians Love 'Universal' Preschool. If Only They Could Decide What It Means.
Policymakers in Minnesota, like many across the country, have been impressed by studies that show early education can improve a child's life and save taxpayers money over the long term.
- Life lessons children need before they start kindergarten
Parents and schools all have a responsibility to teach children life skills. Providing help early for the kids who have difficulties makes sense. Interpersonal skills will always be important, and lacking them is a great disadvantage.
Great Falls Development Authority
- How Data Analytics Is Shaping What You Watch - Netflix Depends on Analytics, Data Science and Engineering
"You do not make a $100 million investment these days without an awful lot of analytics,"
- Big Data analysis by Google, Apple, Intel , etc in Mental Health research
The two factors that are driving tech companies into biomedical and mental health research are big data and the promise of technology to change health care.
Come Home Montana
- AgriTech rail park no longer just wishful thinking in Great Falls, Montana
After some 30 years of wishful thinking by business leaders and several years of hard work by Great Falls Development Authority members, city officials and others, work on the Great Falls AgriTech Park is underway northeast of Great Falls.
- Rebecca Engum selected as Great Falls' first tourism director - Montana Career Opportunity - Manufacturing Partnership Director Business Development Leader - Great Falls Development Authority
"This is exciting news to have such a strong leader taking charge of growing our tourism industry, and at the same time a big loss for our manufacturing recruitment efforts," Doney said. "We're not losing Engum from the Great Falls team, but we'll certainly miss her amongst our GFDA staff. She has done an outstanding job for us."
Montana Business
- Montana Career Opportunities - Systems Security Administrator - Western Montana, Windows Systems Administrator/Support - Billings, Database Engineer - Billings and more... - Arrow Solutions Group
At ASG, we are passionate about fostering successful relationships with our customers and candidates--relationships where quality, honesty and respect matter.
- Career Opportunity - Real Estate Lending Officer - Missoula Federal Credit Union
Join Montana's largest Community Development Financial Institution and receive ongoing professional development, excellent benefits, and an exciting work environment!
- Montana Career Opportunity - Office and Project Coordinator - Montana Film Office
If you are a person that is highly organized, can coordinate multiple project logistics, excel at writing and verbal communications, and handle these dramatic projects without drama, you may be interested in applying for this position.
- Study finds Montana has highest percentage of senior employees
Steve Reiter, senior operations specialist with AARP Montana, said one of the factors for Montana's high senior employment rate is that many people leave Montana after finishing school to take better-paying jobs out of state, and only return to Montana later in life.
Come Home Wyoming
- Yellowstone National Park a magnet for fast-growing ranks of Chinese tourists
The influx of Chinese visitors to this country has grown five-fold since 2007, from 400,000 to 2.1 million travelers last year, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Travel and Tourism Office.
Next Generation Broadband in Montana
- Wyoming Career Opportunity - Executive Director - The Cody Country Chamber of Commerce
Successful candidate must have an extensive understanding of the travel and tourism industry and of Chamber of Commerce operations.
Government
- Salisbury, N.C., Launches Nation's First Citywide 10-Gig Internet Service
The utility company, Fibrant, said the service would offer the highest citywide speeds available in any U.S. community. "Salisbury is now America's first 10-gigabit city."
Regional Business
- Paid Family Leave Gets New Momentum in States
Politics and funding have often stymied the legislative push to pay employees forced to take time off to care for newborns or sick family members. But attitudes about work-life balance are shifting.
Utah Economic Development
- Bakken economy settling into 'new normal'
"People forget the most valuable oil that an oil company owns is still in the ground. It's a bank for them. It's there when prices recover."
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Program offers good jobs and a way to grow manufacturing in Utah
"We are in dire need of young manufacturing (workers)," he said. "There are plenty of engineers out there, but as we continue to grow, there is a significant demand for the number of technicians that we need to hire."
Education
- TeachersPayTeachers.com - A Sharing Economy Where Teachers Win
TeachersPayTeachers speeds up this lesson-plan prep work by monetizing exchanges between teachers and enabling them to make faster connections with farther-flung colleagues.
Montana Education Excellence
- Most and least meaningful college majors
It's a lot of pressure for an 18-year-old. Choosing the right college major can determine whether you find meaning in your work -- beyond just the financial incentive -- way down the road.
- California colleges test online reporting tool created by sexual assault survivor
If successful, sexual assault survivors could feel more comfortable coming forward with their stories about a crime that is often underreported, education experts say.
- Washington State University Cyberattack Leaves Hackers Empty-Handed
Matt Skinner, WSU's associate vice president for finance and administration, also said the university planned and deployed a series of "tactical activities."
Community
- Some University of Montana colleges tighten belts in budget crunch, at least one grows
"Academics are at the heart of what we do, and so the biggest share of the budget - 50 percent - is dedicated to instruction at UM," said Peggy Kuhr, vice president of integrated communications
Funding and Building your Business
- Surgeon General Warning to Local Governments: Stop Being So Auto-Centric!
Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy will call on cities to "design and build roads and public places to make walking easier, safer, and more pleasant."
- 10 Keys to Making A Great City Plan - Family Friendly Cities
One of the most interesting and complex challenges a city planner can be a part of, is the creation of a new city-wide plan--particularly one for an ambitious municipality that truly wants to change business-as-usual.
Energy and Climate Change
- Goodbye home offices: shared workspaces gaining ground
"They're people that want more stimulation than sitting at home and being very productive working in your pajamas all day,"
Government Technology
- 2015 Drive Electric Week is larger than ever - Charged Up: The Status of Electric Cars Under the Big Sky, 9/30-10/2, Billings, Montana
Get your motor running -- or maybe buzzing. A panel discussion: "Electric Cars -- What's Up" will shine a light on the latest developments in Montana concerning electric cars during the 2015 Harvesting Clean Energy Conference.
- From Net Zero Energy to Net Zero Water: A New Frontier in Sustainability
he Net Zero Water Toolkit helps individuals and organizations make water resource planning decisions based on local conditions rather than targeting historical demand and allowing water quality impacts to flow downstream.
- Tesla unveils a battery to power your home, completely off grid
Musk refers to it as changing the "entire energy infrastructure of the world."
- Report: 10 States Leading Solar Charge
The 10 states make up an astounding 87 percent of solar growth in the nation but only comprise around 26 percent of the U.S. population, according to The Top Ten States that Helped Drive America's Solar Energy Boom in 2013.
Transportation
- Iowa Digital Driver's License Pilot Begins
One of the most obvious benefits of a digital driver's license is that it can be updated instantly -- there's no need for the state to print a new card or for the citizen to buy and wait for a new card. Changing an address or updating the card's layout when the citizen ages from 20 to 21 can all be accomplished online.
- Toyota to Finance $50 Million 'Intelligent' Car Project
The Toyota Motor Corporation announced on Friday an ambitious $50 million robotics and artificial intelligence research effort, in collaboration with Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to develop "intelligent" rather than self-driving cars.
- Groundbreaking Electric Car Sharing Program Launches in an Unlikely City
On Wednesday, the nation's most ambitious electric car sharing program launches in a city that'll probably surprise you.
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