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| MATR Newsletter - Fri Sep 25, 2015 |
"Nature is filled with words of love, but how can we listen to them amid constant noise..." Pope Francis
Main Street Montana Project
Sustainable Business Council
- The Innovate Montana: Small Business Roadshow, 9/29, Polson, Montana
The Roadshow will ask successful entrepreneurs and serial entrepreneurs to be role models and share their stories to help prospective entrepreneurs get started.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Reduce, reuse ... reimagine in Missoula, Montana
How local businesses, organizations and residents are finding new and better ways to deal with Missoula's waste
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- Dorsey & Whitney Launches New Website
We have tried to make our new website more user-friendly than the typical law firm website. We have replaced the traditional walls of words with text that is clear and concise and made important information more accessible.
Come Home Montana
- Montana Office of Tourism, Department of Commerce | Official Tourism Industry News
You're Invited! White Sulphur Springs Town Hall Tourism Meeting
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - Junior Ad Operations - LumenAd
Do you want to learn the programmatic ad industry? Are you a stickler for details? Love to organize things? Are you a computer whisperer? If so, join us! Our Ad Operations team members are part mechanic, part detective, and part wizard.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Accounts Payable Specialist, Service Desk Technician, Human Resources Generalist, Information Security Administrator - Washington Corporations
Enjoy working for a successful organization that cares about and values its employees.
Leadership Montana
- University of Montana launches new program to support motivated, talented women
The possibilities are endless.
Montana Business
- Lawmakers to Leadership Montana: City folk far outnumber cowboys, changing state's issues
"I think everyone should have the right to speech when it comes to how we influence elections. I just think you ought to know who's trying to influence you when it comes to our elections and your vote. It's pretty simple."
Careers
- Montana Monster Munchies Expanding and Employing 100
"The Last Best Cookie" continues to impress the most discerning palates. If you haven't tried our cookies, you are missing a special treat.
- Green Power House Rises from the Ashes - Algae Aqua-Culture Technologies starts anew in Columbia Falls, Montana
When a fire destroyed the main powerhouse on Jan. 24, the alternative energy company immediately began looking at how to recover from the loss and move forward with plans to redesign and streamline the destroyed prototype unit.
Rural Communities
- 10 Things Emotionally Intelligent People Do Not Do
Emotional intelligence is probably the most powerful yet undervalued trait in our society.
- 8 Things Successful People Do Day By Day
We are all aware that success doesn't happen overnight (except in some extreme cases) and we want to pinpoint things that we can apply to our everyday lives in order to improve our chances for success.
- Three hobbies that pump up your resume
These three hobbies will help give your resume a boost while having fun at the same time.
Other Economies
- Advocates Call Broadband Recommendations 'A Good Start'
A Cabinet-level council released a report this week on ways the administration can do a better job to support broadband for low-income and rural communities. The recommendations are good but need to go further to encourage and support small communities, advocates say.
American Prairie Reserve
- Crackdown On Luxury Car Owners Dodging Taxes With Montana Registration
The Minnesota State Patrol says a growing number of Minnesotans are buying their vehicles in Minnesota, where the sales tax is 6.5 percent, but illegally registering them in Montana, where the vehicle sales tax is $0.
Montana Education Excellence
- American Prairie Reserve Newsletter for Sept. 2015
The Reserve is partnering with ranchers in the project area to sell beef through the Wild Sky http://wildskybeef.org/ program. Does that mean you've changed the goal to build a wildlife reserve?
Montana Education/Business Partnerships
- Lauded late-work program kicks off at Skyview High
Some teachers at Skyview are rolling out a homework tracking system that texts or emails parents when their kid misses an assignment and gives that student the rest of the semester to turn the assignment in.
- MSU's Jack Horner recognized as one of world's top 24 scientists
Horner is Montana University System Regents Professor of Paleontology and Curator of Paleontology at MSU's Museum of the Rockies.
- NIH National Heart, Lung And Blood Institute Conference, 9/28-10/1, Bozeman, Montana
Renee Reijo Pera, MSU's vice president of research and economic development and a leading stem cell scientist, said the meeting will mark the first time a Pacific Northwest or northern Rocky Mountain institution has hosted a NHLBI workshop.
Community
- Montana Software Company, Wisetail Works, Announces $100,000 Grant to Montana Code School
"We know from experience, Montana is an excellent place for tech innovation and we're thrilled to support the forward-thinking approach spearheaded by the Montana Code School," said Justin Bigart, CEO of Wisetail.
Funding and Building your Business
- Why We're Not Meant to Live in Boring Cities
Boring cityscapes increase sadness, addiction and disease-related stress. Is urban design a matter of public health?
- Missoula more 'livable' than 2,000-plus U.S. cities
"If you have ever wondered what difference having a major university can make to a city of this size, look no further than the guy at the piano singing 'Hey, Jude,' "
Energy and Climate Change
- How to Source the Best Employees [Slideshare]
As the need for demand for skilled labor increases, but the size of the workforce decreases, it's important for small businesses to attract, interact, and retain great employees.
- Montana's small businesses focused on clean energy can now have access to technical expertise at national labs - including Idaho National Lab (INL).
The Department of Energy is launching a new program called the Small Business Voucher pilot that will give small businesses focused on clean energy access to technical expertise at national labs - including Idaho National Lab (INL).
- 24 Team Building Games and Exercises
These team building games are designed to help you get to know your fellow workers, your team of employees, and yourself a bit better so that you can all work together more efficiently.
Connectivity & Communications
- Investors Are Mining for Water, the Next Hot Commodity
"Investing in the water industry is one of the great opportunities for the coming decades," said Matthew J. Diserio of Water Asset Management, a New York firm that is a major backer of Cadiz. "Water is the scarce resource that will define the 21st century, much like plentiful oil defined the last century."
- Trout serve as our canary in the coal mine for the state of the environment.
This is grim news for angler and non-angler alike, and a warning to anyone who assumes there will always be water fit to drink.
- Broadband Inches Toward Utility Status
A recent report released by the president's Broadband Opportunity Council made recommendations that would reduce the nation's digital divide.
- A Model For A Competitive Broadband Market - Broadband Inches Toward Utility Status
I believe the telecommunications market needs to move away from vertical integration where one provider builds, manages, and delivers the entire telecommunications stack to the market. We need to move to a layered model much like the software industry has adopted and which results in a highly competitive market at each layer.
- Study: Montana finally meets national Internet access rates
A recent study commissioned by the Greater Montana Foundation has found that 84 percent of Montanans have Internet access at home, the first time the state has met the national average.
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