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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Oct 16, 2007 |
"We need to get more people to take the bike around. It's good for their health, it's good for the environment, and there's less congestion on our streets," Menino said. "It's time for this issue to come to the forefront." Boston Mayor Thomas Menino -- Boston Goes Bike-Friendly http://matr.net/articl ... .html
You only have a few more days to submit your executive summary. This is an outstanding opportunity. "Montana Entrepreneurs and those that dream of being in Montana, can earn a spot at the table at Rob Ryan's Entrepreneur-America Boot camp. Is your startup capable of becoming a large successful company?" http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Boomtown Institute
Come Home Montana
- The Agurban from Boomtown Institute. Traffic Jam
In the United States as a whole, travelers lost $78 billion in wasted time and fuel in 2005. On average, travel delays nationally waste 26 gallons of fuel per car.
Come Home Wyoming
- Montana Career Opportunity - Economic Development Planner - Northwest Montana
The Economic Development Planner is responsible for facilitating, promoting and ensuring community and economic development in order to secure opportunities for economic and business development and increase local employment in the four counties (Flathead, Lake, Lincoln and Sanders) of the region.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Revolving Loan Fund Manager and Pathways Project Manager - Native American Development Corporation
Native communities have entered a new era of economic self-determination and are committed more than ever to ensuring a better quality of life for their people. The goal of NACDC is to help these communities spread the seeds of sustainable development, and to nurture that development so that there are more opportunities for Native families and the community at large to achieve success.
Entrepreneur- America
- 'In love with the place'
After living in France for 30 years, artist Susan Tatlinger recently returned to the United States and Wyoming.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Entrepreneurs and those that dream of being in Montana, can earn a spot at the table at Rob Ryan's Entrepreneur-America Boot camp. Is your startup capable of becoming a large successful company?
Rob and Terry are going to conduct a new version of the Boot camp with up to 3 Montana based management teams presenting their companies and receiving individual analysis and guidance.
Developing Tech Jobs in Rural Communities
- “Evaluating A Business Idea”, 10/18, Philipsburg, Montana
For People who are interested in starting a new business or acquiring an existing one.
- “Evaluating A Business Idea”, 10/18, Anaconda, Montana
For People who are interested in starting a new business or acquiring an existing one.
- “Evaluating A Business Idea”, 10/24, Butte, Montana
For People who are interested in starting a new business or acquiring an existing one.
Funding and Building your Business
- Digital 'avatars' may stand in for you in virtual workplace
Advocates say virtual worlds offer new ways for people to collaborate and foster workplace interaction in an age of dispersed employees. Companies can also save on travel time and cut down on the greenhouse gases fueling global warming.
Education
- How companies can encourage innovation
Many workers admit they are not living up to their creative potential. Workplace experts say there are ways to narrow this 'creativity gap.'
- Business cards: the power of paper rectangles
Even in today's Internet age, these small cards remain a good way to stand out.
Connectivity & Communications
- Engineers step up recruiting efforts
Engineers, needed to rebuild the nation's roads, bridges and sewers, could be hard to find unless more students start going into the field.
- Classroom Innovation - Blurring Lines Among Both Students and Subjects. It WORKS!!
Pat Graff, a National Council of Teachers of English expert on combining subjects, said middle schools where she works in Albuquerque have taught social studies and language arts together for a decade. Students like it, she said, because seeing connections between the two subjects makes the lessons seem more relevant to the outside world.
- The Intellectual Devotional. Are you smarter than a college graduate?
Impress your friends by explaining the meaning of Platos’ “Cave Allegory,” pepper your cocktail party conversation with opera terms, solve math problems using the FOIL method.
Incubators and R&D
- There's no excuse to not back up files
Surveys show almost half of users do not back up their data.
- The expanding world of social networking
Corporations are tapping into internal and stakeholder social networks to capture their wisdom and encourage greater collaboration.
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- University of Idaho working on futuristic diagnostic device that might be able to diagnose ailments like cancer by detecting DNA mutations
"The diagnosis (of medical conditions) is being cut from days to hours."
- Blood test shows promise in diagnosing Alzheimer's
A team of researchers at Stanford University and several other institutions believe they've discovered a simple blood test for detecting the onset of Alzheimer's disease, long before its victims are robbed of their memory and personality.
Montana Business
- A growing enclave for the arts, 30 miles from Seattle
People who have lived in Tacoma all their lives express amazement at how the waterfront and downtown have already been transformed into a welcoming arts district.
Montana Economic Development
- Pyron Technologies Achieves Premier Certification from Cisco Systems, Inc.
“With specializations in Express Unified Communications and Express Foundation, Pyron Technologies has secured the training, skills and knowledge to play a pivotal role in accelerating the adoption of Cisco technology solutions.”
- $10.32 is no living wage
In my experience as a “single Montana adult,” a $10.32 per hour pay wouldn’t even come close to “meet basic needs, maintain some ability to deal with emergencies and plan ahead,” as the NFCO report says.
- Montana Revenue Department Amends Rule on Federal Internet Taxation Ban
"Given the unique circumstances of this issue, we will waitto decide how to proceed until Congress either actsor adjourns next year without taking any action,"
- Tata Earnings Show Offshore Outsourcing Moving Beyond Software Development
Consulting, computer infrastructure management, and business process outsourcing now make up more than half of Tata Consulting Services' revenue.
Regional Economic Development
- Montana Board Of Housing To Receive $164,624 In Funding For Homebuyer Education From HUD Officials, 10/15, Shelby
The Montana Board of Housing will use the funds to provide homebuyer education and foreclosure prevention counseling to prospective and current Montana homeowners, through the Montana Homeownership Network (MHN).
- Kalispell, Montana Chamber plans housing conference
The chamber said the affordability gap poses a challenge for employers trying to recruit workers in a tight labor market.
- Helena's 'branding' takes shape
Without giving away too much, Brooks indicated this week that the brand that seems to be the best fit for Helena revolves around art — though he cautioned that art is becoming overused and needs to be made more specific.
- Small Montana towns reap big benefits from tourism grants
"Improvements to these projects will help keep some of Montana's 10 million visitors here longer, allowing them to spend more out-of-state dollars in our local communities," Gov. Brian Schweitzer said.
- ‘Four stories is just too high’ - Whitefish, Montana development plans
“Business owners were now hearing visitors say, ‘Santa Fe is starting to look like every other community. I am not coming back.’ Santa Fe’s leaders realized that the city was at a tipping point. By allowing new buildings to be over three stories, they were destroying the special character that had made the city successful.”
Idaho Business
- "America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline"
US child poverty rates exceed those of all other industralized nations.
- Delay in SBA women's program drags on. Hitting the $1 million mark is tough for many female business owners
Women who own small companies are awaiting guidelines from the Small Business Administration that would implement the program as called for in legislation passed in December 2000.
- Rural America At A Glance - October 2007
Rural America At A Glance, 2007 highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas.
- As Logging Fades, Rich Carve Up Open Land in West
The rise of a new landed gentry in the West is partly another expression of gilded age economics in America; the super-wealthy elite wades ashore where it will.
Oregon Economic Development
- Pioneer route passenger train might someday return to Idaho
Crapo, an Idaho Republican, says he supports the one-time evaluation of the Pioneer route and would like to see passenger rail service return to the state.
- Welcome to the ultra-competitive job market in North Idaho.
Kootenai County's low business costs, good business climate, and quality of life have attracted many new businesses here, the Idaho Department of Labor says.
- Cuts at call center. Amid restructuring, Dell makes layoffs at Twin Falls, Idaho facility
Dell officials confirmed Monday afternoon what local officials had feared in the wake of mass layoffs at the Micron plant in Boise - that the local call center in Twin Falls was not immune to the frequent restructuring that occurs in high-tech.
Wyoming Business
- A record gift for the University of Oregon: $74.5 million for science research and teaching
Lokey, who was born and raised in Portland but never attended UO, has given a total of $132 million to the university in the past four years. He said in an interview that giving to UO is his way of giving back to his home state.
Energy
- Upcoming Wyoming summit touts art, economy ties
A conference in Casper this week aims to teach Wyoming business and community leaders how the arts can help them diversify the economy.
Transportation
- Rebates for solar water heaters signed by governor
Less expensive and less glamorous than solar panels that generate electricity, solar water heaters do exactly what their name implies - use sunlight to warm water for a home or business.
- Ice Caps Melting Fast: Say Goodbye to the Big Apple? "It is too late already."
"We have seen a massive acceleration of the speed with which these glaciers are moving into the sea. The ice is moving at 2 metres an hour on a front five kilometres long and 1,500 metres deep. "That means that this one glacier puts enough fresh water into the sea in one day to provide drinking water for a city the size New York or London for a year."
- Rural America Gets Ready for Wave of New Nukes
Financial incentives passed by Congress in 2005 — and worries about global warming — have revitalized the nuclear industry. Twenty-one applications totalling 32 new reactors are expected.
Montana Education Excellence
- Economic Development Through Bike/Ped Paths
Bold plans are taking shape as construction begins on an 8-mile bike and pedestrian path in Indianapolis -- a project intended to encourage not just walking and biking, but also economic development.
Leadership Montana
- University of Montana scientist Steve Running shares in Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore
Steve Running, one of the nation’s foremost experts on climate change, was a lead author of the 2007 United Nations IPCC report that presents strong evidence that humanity is artificially warming our world.
- Montana State University server hacked, students told
"Even though we don't believe any information was stolen, we are treating this as a serious situation and want to alert these students to the possibility that they were affected," MSU spokeswoman Cathy Conover said Friday.
- Commissioner of higher ed visits Hamilton
“What we really need to start doing is get the facts so the animosity and confusion between both sides can start to disintegrate,”Jim Cote said. “I hope we can blend together an initiative between both sides so that we can begin to move forward.”
- New Qwest ''1% Back to Schools'' Program Donates One Percent of Qwest Monthly Bills to School Districts in Montana
"Qwest is committed to maintaining strong communities and great schools in Montana, and our '1% Back to Schools' program will support school districts across our state," said David Gibson, Qwest president for Montana.
- Billings College of Technology pushes new nursing program
The college proposes adding a six-semester associate of science registered nursing degree to its medical programs.
- New rule may hinder distance learning
The Montana Board of Public Education recently adopted a rule requiring any college or university professor whose lectures will be accessed via distance learning by Montana students to have a Montana teacher's certification - a state license to teach with an endorsement in the field specialized in. Sen. Rick Laible, R-Darby, is unhappy with it.
- Good bosses | Workers explain how their leaders won their hearts and minds
National Boss's Day is Tuesday, so we asked readers to tell us what makes their boss special. Tyrants, take heed.
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