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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Aug 9, 2016 |
Educators make all other professions possible.
Gianforte talks jobs, economy and refugees during City Club Missoula Luncheon http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html --- Governor Steve Bullock Invites You the Montana Ambassadors' "Business Open" Golf Tournament at the beautiful Jack Nicklaus Signature Old Works course in Anaconda FRIDAY, AUGUST 12th. http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Montana Politics & Legislature
PFL
- Wheeler Center to host lecture and conference on political engagement Sept 10 in Helenain Montana
The conference will explore the historical, political and social dynamics that drive divisiveness.
Montana Code Girls
- Webinar Invitation: Direct Mail Marketing-How To Know If It's Right For Your Business, 8/11
In this 60 minute webinar, join Daniel Gaugler, VP of Marketing at Printing For Less, and resident marketing experts to learn how you can build effective Direct Mail campaigns.
Energy and Climate Change
- Afghanistan: Using technology to empower women
"We are not thinking, we are not supposed to do critical thinking," says Mahboob, discussing the way she and many women grew up in Afghanistan.
Come Home Montana
- UC Irvine Accidentally Invents a Battery that Lasts Forever
http://www.thedrive.com/news/3208/uc-irvine-accidentally-invents-a-battery-that-lasts-forever
- The World's Largest Solar Plant Started Creating Electricity Today
At full capacity, the facility's trio of 450-foot high towers produces a gross total of 392 megawatts (MW) of solar power, enough electricity to provide 140,000 California homes with clean energy and avoid 400,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, equal to removing 72,000 vehicles off the road.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunities - Director of Risk Management and Benefits, Dentist and more... - Missoula County
- Montana Career Opportunities - Assistant Chief Information Officer, Director of Student Engagement, Programmer Analyst, Network Support Technician, and many more... - University of Montana
We offer a highly competitive salary and benefits package, the opportunity to live in one of the finest college towns in America, awesome Grizzly Athletics, and some of the best rafting and fly fishing anywhere in the lower 48.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Programmer, Software Tester, Technical Writer - Logistic Systems, Inc.
Founded and based in beautiful Missoula, Montana, LogiSYS has been an industry leader and trusted developer of software solutions for Law Enforcement, Fire and EMS services for over twenty years.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Account Executive, QA Analyst, Managed Service Analyst and more... - Advanced Technology Group
Opportunities begin when gaps are discovered - those pressing business challenges where IT and business are not connecting.
- Montana Career Opportunities - DevOps Engineer, Client Success Manager, ETL Systems Engineer and more... - Goomzee
Goomzee's vision is to bring the real estate industry into the mobile age by providing ubiquitous access to real estate information over mobile devices.
- Montana Career Opportunities -.NET/SQL Server Developer, Software Engineer, Scrum Product Owner and more... - Arrow Solutions Group
At Arrow Solutions Group we're your liaison to the employer and the job you want.
Leadership Montana
- Why entrepreneurship is on the rise
On the bright side, technological innovations make entrepreneurship more accessible to a wider swath of people.
MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association
- 3 E's of Effective Innovation Leadership
One of the most critical factors for transforming innovation results is bold executive leadership encompassing three key leadership pillars essential for any change effort.
Montana Business
- Webinar On Using Comprehensive Data Gathering Tools For Economic Development, 8/15
This free webinar will demonstrate how to gather data that you use on a regular (if not daily) basis and showcase how easy it is to assemble, analyze and present the information gathered.
City Club Missoula
- Small Business Administration regional administrator Betsy Markey visits Bozeman, talks local growth, jobs
"It's going gangbusters here right now; we're overwhelmed," said Suzi White, program director for the Montana Women's Business Center in Bozeman, an extension of Prospera funded in part by the SBA.
- Bozeman commission approves temporary ban of vacation rental permits - Missoula looks to expand vacation rental options
Jenkins said that, if anything, people who rent out apartments and rooms and houses long-term should be subject to more scrutiny. "The state Legislature doesn't allow local municipalities to inspect long-term rentals," she said. "That's why we have slumlords."
Other Economies
- Gianforte talks jobs, economy and refugees during City Club Missoula Luncheon
"I think we have a moral obligation to help, but I don't think it includes settling them (refugees) in our communities," Gianforte said. "Many states have withdrawn from the federal program, and I think the safety of Montanans come first. We have to recognize we're at war. I would close refugee resettlement here in Montana."
Utah Economic Development
- Some States Spend Big to Attract Medical Tourists
Lawmakers are pouring millions of dollars into making their states a destination for patients around the world. Will their investments pay off?
Wyoming Business
- Secret moves to lure Facebook data center to West Jordan, Utah questioned
"I do worry about screwing up this deal and losing an opportunity, but even more than that I worry that we're being taken advantage of and getting fleeced by a company that's pretty sophisticated." Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Group begins to map out Casper, Wyoming's future
Asked to envision Casper 20 years in the future, one community member pictured beer.
- Growing number of people leaving Wyoming after job loss
Since oil prices plunged in late 2014, workers are increasingly fleeing Wyoming. The state has sent a growing number of unemployment benefits to people outside Wyoming, figures show.
- Array School of Technology and Design in Cheyenne, Wyoming hopes to develop local industry, diversify state economy
Eric Trowbridge is working to start Wyoming's first coding and technology school, with an eye toward bringing the state up to speed.
Funding and Building your Business
- The powerful thing that happens when the school day starts in the afternoon
A few years ago, one school district in Europe stumbled across a surprising way to narrow the gender gap: starting the school day in the afternoon.
Connectivity & Communications
- Lessons in hiring: How Ryan Gosling helped in Hulu's battle with culture vampires.
One of the biggest decisions you make as you're building a company is who you hire. But hiring can be a serious drag.
- This software company says it can predict a bad employee
Is one of your employees about to steal your data?
Government Technology
- Building a competitive broadband marketplace for rural America
Roughly one-fifth of all Americans live in rural areas where wireless broadband coverage - and competitive options - is severely limited. Though smart policies can heal this gap over time, they are currently stuck with few choices and no real hope for more investment in the short term.
- How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
In some cases, rural municipalities are also using electrification laws from the early 1900s to obtain funds and regulatory permissions reserved for utilities, in order to offer broadband.
- Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook plans commercial launch of rural WiFi
Express Wi-Fi is a Mark Zuckerberg-headed Internet giant's initiative aimed at taking affordable broadband to the rural areas of the country in partnerships with internet service companies and small entrepreneurs.
Non-Profit News
- Transparency in government portal -Montana's Statewide Transparency Initiative
"By posting local government spending online, we are empowering taxpayers to hold public officials accountable."
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- Project Vote Smart to leave Philipsburg, Montana
"The isolation has come with problems," Kimball wrote, noting the facility resides 100 miles from the nearest airport in Missoula.
Transportation
- Why Every Artist Should be a Great Storyteller
Expertly telling your story is the best kind of organic marketing you can do to promote your art because people care almost as deeply about how you create, as they do about the end product.
- Czech photographer, wanderer shares his 'Own Private Montana' in exhibit at Break Espresso
"The answer is in the mountains, dusty towns, old-time saloons, in the rivers, the prairie, in the sky, in the sky. Montana has it all," he said.
- When Will Cities be Ready for Self-Driving Cars?
There's broad acceptance that self-driving cars will fundamentally change the way people and goods move. What's not clear is how they will change the way cities look and function, and whether governments will embrace the technology or side with skeptics.
- Watch MIT's First-Ever Grand Prix of Self-Driving Cars [Video]
Take a look at the videos of the well attended Grand Prix and you'll see there were several cars able to navigate the course with ease (and others that were more autonomously challenged).
- Elon Musk: Full Autonomy Is Coming Sooner Than Anyone - Expects--and It Will 'Blow People's Minds'
"All I'd say is that full autonomy is going to come a hell of a lot faster than anyone thinks it will. And I think what we've got under development is going to blow people's minds. It blows my mind."
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