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| MATR Newsletter - Fri Nov 28, 2008 |
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." -- Michael Pritchard
"25 best cities to find a job including Billings, Great Falls and Missoula, Montana" http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html ---
Boomtown Institute
Come Home Montana
- Boomtown Institute - Pride in Your Hometown!
If we all work together to support "Main Street USA", we will make a difference.”
Montana Business
- 25 best cities to find a job including Billings, Great Falls and Missoula, Montana
There are several cities with low unemployment rates and sizeable job growth. Here are 25 cities with the lowest unemployment rates and the job growth they're experiencing.
Montana Economic Development
- Goomzee Unveils Real Estate Text Message Advancement, Auto Attendant
Goomzee, a leading provider of text-message marketing solutions for real estate professionals, announces the availability of its Auto Attendant feature for Realty Connect.
- Rocky Mountain Laboratories makes effort to reach out to Montana community
Today, RML sponsors a range of outreach efforts - including a community liaison group, a newsletter, neighborhood meetings and a Web site - in an effort to keep the public abreast of its infectious disease research and its brick-and-mortar master expansion plan.
- Glacier National Park receives business award from the U.S. Small Business Administration
The award recognizes Glacier's achievements in hiring minority contractors.
- Not like it used to be - Plummeting oil prices could have big effect in Montana
“I do know that people are reconsidering their investments, at least in the more expensive wells.”
- Cooperative Web site aiding central Montana businesses - OurMontanaMarket.com
Several cottage-industry proprietors in the area had looked at Web sites, but found the learning curve for the technology too steep and the upfront setup costs too expensive, said Terry Huff, a staff member of Snowy Mountain Development Corp. and the project's coordinator.
Regional Economic Development
- HOME Program Application Guidelines are now available
NOTE: The HOME Program did not receive a sufficient number of applications to fully award its 2008 competitive funds and those unallocated funds are being rolled into the 2009 grant competition.
- Amtrak studies feasibility of bringing back North Coast Hiawatha route in Montana
The North Coast Hiawatha route paralleled Interstate Highways 90 and 94 through Billings, Bozeman, Butte and Missoula. It was discontinued in 1979 because of federal budget cuts.
- Butte Council delays Super Computer funding decision
The state- funded supercomputer is scheduled to be installed in the Thornton Building, Broadway and Wyoming, in late December and be online by mid-January.
Careers
- Outsiders Target Indian Land for Risky Business
Developers Skirt State and Local Laws by Building on Indian Land
Developing Funding Opportunities in Montana
- How to Make a Powerful First Impression
Learn the art of presence and small talk from communications experts who swear you can do it even if you don't think you can.
- What Skills are most Profitable for the Montana Economy?
Between a worker who has a high level of science skills and a worker with a high level of problem solving skills, which one is paid more?
Funding and Building your Business
- Utah Fund of Funds to raise its visibility - Group seeks to expand entrepreneur network
The program, designed to foster entrepreneurship by increasing the amount and diversity of capital available to Utah growth companies, next year will offer several initiatives, including networking events, workshops and industry-specific conferences and other events to increase awareness of its offerings.
Montana Education Excellence
- When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Don't Skimp on Their Ad Budgets
"The first reaction is to cut, cut, cut, and advertising is one of the first things to go," says Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader, adding that as companies slash advertising in a downturn, they leave empty space in consumers' minds for aggressive marketers to make strong inroads.
- Inside Entrepreneurship: Strategies to speed startup income
To help prospective entrepreneurs test the wisdom of their business ideas, I highly recommend one or more visits to their local Small Business Administration SCORE office.
University TechTransfer
- University of Montana Nobel Peace Prize laureate professor Steve Running finds space up front
Running has academic friends at other major universities around the country who were bequeathed coveted parking places after they received Nobel Prizes in science, a point Running jokingly passed on to UM President George Dennison, who was in fact listening. Running got his spot.
Idaho Business
- Cornell Medical Debuts ‘Startup Boot Camp’ To Educate, Motivate Would-Be Entrepreneurs
The seminar, the first of its kind for Weill Cornell, was designed to allow researchers affiliated with the school to pick the brains of individuals with experience in creating university startups, including university-affiliated entrepreneurs who have experience founding and running startup companies, intellectual property lawyers, venture capitalists, and government officials.
- University of Utah Technology Venture Development Office launches plan to boost student, faculty ventures
The Entrepreneur in Residence program aims to align seasoned entrepreneurs with young university startup companies to help the new companies as they develop business plans, acquire financing and begin operations.
Wyoming Business
- Demand for pharmacists in Idaho helps boost pay, sign-on bonuses for the highly trained professionals
Students are getting job offers even before they graduate as retail drugstores proliferate
Education
- A Land Rush in Wyoming Spurred by Wind Power
A quiet land rush is under way among the buttes of southeastern Wyoming, and it is changing the local rancher culture.
Connectivity & Communications
- Rural Schools Need to Train Rural Stewards
If rural school leaders look at globalization head on, they'll see the roles their communities have played. Education today means advancement for students of all ages and wiser management of rural resources.
Energy
- MTA Commentary-Headlines Can Be Misleading
Montana’s rural telcos provide among the best broadband service availability in the nation, at competitive prices. The availability of e-government services, however, is a separate matter, which the study addresses.
Non-Profit News
- Will Berkeley's Solar Plan Go Viral?
Cisco DeVries, who came up with the innovative financing plan, is trying to convince cities nationwide to join the solar revolution.
- US contractors spur nuclear construction
The US government has offered $18.5bn in loan guarantees to encourage the construction of 14 nuclear power plants. Last month, it said it had received 19 applications from 17 electric power companies for $122bn in loan guarantees.
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- Missoula Community Foundation Fund strikes it rich
The Missoula Community Foundation has supported more than 50 projects during the past seven years with over $100,000, supporting local institutions like the Missoula Art Museum and Missoula Children’s Theater. Foundation leaders say they aim to help charities and donors get the most bang for their buck.
VIRUS ALERTS
- Transforming Art Into a More Lucrative Career Choice
Some artists have begun to figure out ways to make money and make art — aiming to end the notion that “starving” and “artist” are necessarily linked.
- Srizbi Botnet Re-Emerges Despite Security Firm's Efforts
The botnet Srizbi was knocked offline Nov. 11 along with Web-hosting firm McColo, which Internet security experts say hosted machines that controlled the flow of 75 percent of the world's spam.
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