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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Aug 2, 2016 |
“If one wanted to look at single changes that matter a lot to work, the biggest in my view has been ideology, the shift from the idea that business had a responsibility to all stakeholders toward the idea that they have responsibility only to one – shareholders.” Peter Cappelli --- The Future of Work: How You Can Ride the Wave of Change -- http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
City Club Missoula Presents: Greg Gianforte, Republican Nominee For Governor, 8/8, Missoula http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Early Edge Montana
Gov. Steve Bullock
- Making the Business Case for Early Education
To build a better workforce, start at the beginning by building better early education and care programs.
Montana Politics & Legislature
- Governor Bullock Takes More Steps to Support Equal Pay for Equal Work
Governor announces new Executive Order, Equal Pay Hotline, and "Equal Pay MT" community awareness campaign
Big Sky Code Academy
- Guest opinion: Why Montanans should support 28th amendment
Our American ideal of one person, one vote should mean that citizens have an equal ability to participate in the process to elect our public officers, and that our votes are not weighted or devalued by those who vote with dollars.
- Why We Vote: Getting From Votes To Seats, 8/3, Missoula
With national voter turnout at 37% in 2014, is our democracy failing?
Montana Office of Tourism & Economic Development
- CODE2040 CEO heads to the White House
Powers is the co-founder and CEO of CODE2040 that helps prepare college-age African-American and Latino technical talent for careers in the tech industry through summer internships that place them in tech companies whose narrow recruiting efforts often overlook them.
Artificial Intelligence and The Internet of Things
- Registration Open! Market Montana Symposium, Sept. 11-12 in Missoula
Join us to explore marketing ideas and successes from around the state. Discuss with your peers how to leverage the essence of Montana to add value to your product, and share insights on Montana's brand and competitive advantage moving into the future.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- What Is Artificial Intelligence?
AI is an opportunity to create tools that save money, save lives and improve life in ways that can't be measured.
Energy and Climate Change
- How To Spend A Weekend In Missoula
Discover the magic formula for summer fun in Big Sky Country.
Come Home Montana
- Solar cell sucks up CO2 and spits burnable fuel out the other side
According to the team, the solar cell could be adapted to large-scale use such as solar farms, along with smaller applications.
- Smart bricks would enable walls capable of generating electricity, clean water and oxygen
Depending on how they're "programmed," these bioreactor walls will be able to take in inputs such as grey water, carbon dioxide, sunlight, algae, bacteria and nutrients, and in turn produce resources like "polished" water, oxygen, electricity, heat, biodegradable detergents, biomass and biofluorescence.
- Smart bricks would enable walls capable of generating electricity, clean water and oxygen
Depending on how they're "programmed," these bioreactor walls will be able to take in inputs such as grey water, carbon dioxide, sunlight, algae, bacteria and nutrients, and in turn produce resources like "polished" water, oxygen, electricity, heat, biodegradable detergents, biomass and biofluorescence.
- A degree by degree explanation of what will happen when the earth warms
Deserts will reappear particularly in Nebraska, but also in eastern Montana, Wyoming and Arizona, northern Texas and Oklahoma. As dust and sandstorms turn day into night across thousands of miles of former prairie, farmsteads, roads and even entire towns will be engulfed by sand."
- University of Montana Research: Mountain Environments More Vulnerable to Climate Change than Previously Reported
New research by University of Montana forest landscape ecology Professor Solomon Dobrowski shows that organisms will face more hardships as they relocate when climate change makes their current homes uninhabitable.
- Melbourne gets world first solar-powered 'Tesla Town'
Glenvill's new plans for suburb YarraBend is hailed as the most environmentally sustainable development in the country, with homes inbuilt with EV charging, solar roofs, Tesla batteries, and more.
- Chameleon solar panels for more cohesive rooftop designs
Sistine Solar's rooftop panels are designed to match house exteriors for more appealing installations.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - Production Manager - Headframe Spirits
The Production Manager is responsible for the day to day operations of the distillation and packaging components of both Headframe Spirits (HFS) and Headfr ame Spirits Manufacturing (HSM) operations.
MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association
- Technology Column: Innovation and entrepreneurship grow in Montana's tech industry
Technological innovation thrives in the bootstrapped startups and high-tech manufacturers of Montana.
Montana Business
- August Montana Economic Developers Association News
Thanks to MEDA's partnership with MT Dept. of Commerce, 46 Resource Team Assessments have been held across Montana.
Montana Economic Development
- New survey by LC Staffing sheds light on top priorities of Montana's job seekers
The survey, conducted by Montana-based talent acquisition agency, LC Staffing, indicates that priorities for job seekers may be more complex than Montana employers realize.
- Wouldn't You Rather Have A Concrete Log Home This Wildfire Season? Montana's EverLog Systems
As you plan your next log and timber house, keep these wildfire issues in mind.
- Montana Unveils New Plans for Equal Pay for Equal Work
The wage gap remains a generational thing. But not for long, if Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney, Sheila Hogan and Butte business leaders have their way.
Careers
- Economist: Flathead County Enjoying Broad Economic Growth
"There is economic growth in the Flathead. Boy, is there ever."
- Economic goals to help Missoula grow in next 5 years
Our aim is high. Our resolve is deep. Our plan is rock solid.
- You're Invited: Raise Awareness About Equal Pay In Your Community, 8/4, Billings
Come learn about what you can do to help raise awareness about equal pay resources in your community.
- You're Invited: Raise Awareness About Equal Pay In Your Community, 8/3, Missoula
Come learn about what you can do to help raise awareness about equal pay resources in your community.
- Prospera Member E-Newsletter 3rd Quarter 2016
The Kauffman Foundation's 2015 Index of Entrepreneurship ranked Montana #1 for business startup activity for the third year in a row.
Rural Communities
- Career Coach: Stop sitting around waiting to be asked. Take some initiative.
Why it is so important for employees to show initiative at work.
- The Future of Work: How You Can Ride the Wave of Change
"Generally, modernization is not working terribly well for a lot of people, and it does result in Brexit, Trump and all that sort of stuff."
- How to Have a Good Day at Work
"What would it take to get more good days?"
- Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories
So how can you make your résumé, profile, and interview more effective?
- Tips and tricks to ace your annual review at work
Relax. First off, stop the panic.
- How to retire without regrets
The biggest regrets aren't always financial.
Government
- Can Counties Fix Rural America's Endless Recession?
The inability of most rural places to recover from the economic downturn is fueling political and social problems around the nation.
Idaho Business
- Long-Term Care Is an Immediate Problem -- for Government
The pressure will only intensify as people age, so both state and federal officials are scrambling to control spending.
Incubators and R&D
- Click, vroom, munch: Online grocery shopping arrives in Boise
Albertsons, Fred Meyer and Walmart now take orders via websites, apps
Regional Business
- NASA supports University of Wyoming's unique research with grant
Low-temperature flames can seem counterintuitive -- most fire produces heat. This research is flipping that idea upside down.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Chaos Monkeys': A Startup Founder's Silicon Valley Tell-all
Literally every company is basically taking some part of either white-collar or blue-collar work and replacing it with automation.
Education
- 'Helping Children Succeed': Author Paul Tough Takes a Second Look at Success
The environment that we create both in the home and in the classroom makes kids able to persevere, to exercise self-control, to behave in all of the ways that are going to maximize their future opportunities.
- On raising kids who are more than "hoop jumpers": A teenage TED speaker's mom on how she encourages her sons to innovate
You have to make your own self remarkable. Make them say, "Wow, this couldn't be any other child." Don't be like everybody else.
Montana Education Excellence
- Why It's Time to Disrupt Higher Education by Separating Learning From Credentialing
Creating alternatives to traditional degrees would let students pursue their best options for learning and apply competitive pr essure on colleges and universities to improve quality and reduce the costs of education .
Community
- Montana school turnaround program gets $1.5 million federal grant
"When I walk into any of our Schools of Promise I see students excited about being in school and communities coming together to support educating our children," Juneau said. "Schools of Promise has allowed us to focus on supporting students' mental health needs, boosts student engagement, and provides unique training for local school boards and educators."
Funding and Building your Business
- Choir! Choir! Choir! - The healing power of music - Is your community gathering and singing?
Epic Night! Featuring Rufus Wainwright + 1500 Singers sing HALLELUJAH!
Government Technology
- Rocky Mountain Venture Capital - Montana Pitch Fest Featuring Innovative Companies And Informal Funding Discussions, 9/22, Bozeman, Montana
Get a front row seat to learn about innovative companies through creative and fast-paced 'Shark Tank' style presentations. Listen in as a group of visiting venture capitalists provides candid feedback to the CEOs. The event also includes ample networking time to maximize opportunities to visit with seasoned venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs and key service providers.
- 4 Questions That Separate 'Want'-repreneurs From Entrepreneurs - Are you asking yourself 'if' -- or 'how?'
So, how are you going to reach your goals?
- 18 Movies Every Entrepreneur Should Watch
Wherever you are in your business venture, you can glean some insight from these 18 provocative and wildly entertaining films.
- 5 Ideas for CEOs Looking for an Edge
I routinely invite my competitors to join us for boardroom chats. While they initially find my frankness shocking, it's amazing how many of them take me up on it.
Non-Profit News
- Code for America's Quest to Save the Brigades
Swelling numbers coupled with a temporary setback in fundraising have prompted the civic tech nonprofit Code for America (CfA) to begin restructuring its volunteer Brigade program.
- 5 Points to Remember for Engaging Citizens with the Internet of Things
One less often highlighted theme vital to IoT reaching its full potential in a city is engaging residents early and often.
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- Stephanie Sorini buys Butte 100; annual mountain bike race kicks off July 30
Think of the Butte 100 as a business, not one of the toughest mountain bike races in the nation.
- Montana's lone student loan servicer Student Assistance Foundation announces major 'restructuring'
Executives with the Helena-based Student Assistance Foundation confirmed it was in the midst of an ongoing "restructuring" hastened, at least in part, by an expected 40 percent loss in clients by the end of the year.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Montana Artrepreneurship Program teaches artists how to market their work
One out of every 60 people in this state is a working artist.
HACKING AND VIRUS ALERTS
- Glaxo, Alphabet Plan $700 Million Bioelectric Treatment Venture
U.K.-based partnership to focus on use of electrical signals to treat diseases
- The keyboard joins the Internet of Things
In real terms this means that users can, for example, program the letter B to flash when they receive an email from their boss, the letter E to track an eBay bid as it ends and change color from blue to red, or even follow important streaming information without opening a browser.
- Open AI Is Calling for Techie Cops to Battle Code Gone Rogue
As its team of top researchers help to hasten the spread AI technology, this rather unusual startup is worried that such tech could spread too far--that someone else will make a breakthrough in secret and use it "for potentially malicious ends."
- New identity theft insurance is free for consumers
Just recently a new startup company called Civic became the first company to turn identity theft protection into truly warning you before the identity theft truck hits you.
- Top 'Nigerian prince' email scammer arrested
With almost 61% of the Nigerian population in poverty, it also makes for easy money.
- How a hacked roof-top solar array could destabilize an entire power grid.
Installing solar panels can open homeowners up to hackers.
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