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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx
"RightNow Technologies to hire 100 employees; 56 in Bozeman area" http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html --- "Washington Foundation offers $200K challenge grant for National Folk Festival in Butte, Montana" http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Glacier Raft and Outdoor Center
Missoula Public Schools Excellence
- Glacier Park brimming with stories - Centennial’s scale as grand as scenery
Glacier’s centennial committee published a book, “A View Inside Glacier National Park: 100 Years, 100 Stories,” with recollections from visitors, residents, park employees and others.
University of Montana Tech Transfer
- Missoula Students Deserve Full Community Support to Increase Graduation Rates
We look forward to seeing a more focused plan of action on Jan. 19, when Apostle and others will present the initiative to the public at the University of Montana. And we look forward to seeing the Missoula community follow that plan through to completion.
Blackfoot Telecommunications Group
- University of Montana VISION 2009 - Research, Innovation & Scholarship
Campus research efforts now expend more than $67 million annually.
- University of Montana develops software, Global Information Gatherer, designed to aid college students
“Students have so much information to manage and incorporate from many resources. We want to help them integrate technology in the most beneficial way.”
Idaho National Laboratory
- Montana Career Opportunity - Security Sales Consultant - Blackfoot Communications, Inc.
We’re looking for a highly motivated, experienced Security Sales person to sell intrusion alarm, video surveillance, environmental monitoring, PERS, home automation, and other related security monitoring services to residential and commercial customers.
Come Home Montana
- Idaho National Laboratory develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors
The fuel is designed for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP), which could provide the heat and hydrogen many industries currently get from fossil fuels.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- RightNow Technologies to hire 100 employees; 56 in Bozeman area
The positions are “across the board,” said founder and CEO Greg Gianforte, from development and customer care to sales, human resources and marketing. Benefits include full medical, a retirement plan and one week of paid time off a year to do community service, Gianforte said.
- Booming town - Helena, Montana
Any discussion of economic development in the Helena area over the past decade can start with one number: $447 million.
Montana Business
- Enlightened Entrepreneurs’, the nation’s first ‘speed mentoring event
On December 15, 65 entrepreneurs from the state’s most dynamic companies shared their expertise with 70 nonprofits, sharing new insights on ways to respond to community needs in challenging economic times.
Montana Economic Development
- Smurfit-Stone to stay open in Frenchtown, Montana till Jan. 5 because of demand for linerboard
The irony for millworkers at Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.’s Frenchtown plant is both bitter and sweet.
Regional Economic Development
- Good News and Bad News for Northern Rockies High-Tech - Montana Needs Help
Montana's small tech sector needs an energy boost.
Careers
- Water Planning After the Age of Infrastructure
The era of infrastructure-enabled growth is over, leaving planners, developers and policymakers looking for new ways to sustain growth and rising demand amid diminishing resources.
Funding and Building your Business
- Landing a Job of the Future Takes a Two-Track Mind
Career Experts Say Positions in Growing Fields Will Require an In-Demand Degree Coupled With Skills in Emerging Trends
- It's harder to pull up stakes to get jobs
For employers, that means workers may be harder to find and, thus, likely to be costlier. And that could be another factor making it tough to reduce the unemployment rate.
Montana Education Excellence
- Making Money with Social Media - Social Agency
The goal, says Social Agency cofounder Scott McCaskill, is to let companies see "whether all the time put into doing those things is really helping build brand or product awareness, which kinds of content are most successful, what days and even times of day result in the most traffic or new followers/friends."
- Top 10 Best Ways To Scare Off Your Customers
#1. Pass the customer around.
University TechTransfer
- Overview of MSU’s Research and Technology Transfer Program
- As colleges add green majors and minors, classes fill up - University of Montana launches climate change degree program
If we all think it's hard to understand health care legislation, wait until climate change really hits Congress.
Wyoming Business
- Kauffman Foundation Experts' Solution for University Technology Licensing Reform Named to List of 'Ten Breakthrough Ideas for 2010' by Harvard Business Review
Current restrictions imposed by U.S. research universities on the ways their faculty can commercialize federally funded discoveries are slowing the diffusion of new technologies.
Education
- Fewer doctors practice full-time in Wyo
Of the 301 doctors who received licenses so far this year, only 18 percent reported working full-time in Wyoming.
Community
- On the ball: Classrooms try out ball chairs for muscle use, balance
The students like their ball chairs and the teachers credit the balls with improving the children's focus.
- What do suicide rates and pre-K education have to do with college? More than you might think.
Helping kids thrive from an early age
Connectivity & CommunicationsEnergy and Climate Change
- WUTC staff reverses position on Frontier's bid for Verizon phone lines
Frontier Communications, which wants to buy Verizon's landline-telephone business in this and 13 other states, has agreed to hold residential-telephone rates steady for three years and invest $40 million in expanded high-speed Internet access as part of a package of concessions aimed at winning approval from the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission.
- Looking to expand the reach of high-speed Internet, federal regulators look to the television.
99 percent of households have a television, and 76 percent have a personal computer. So why not piggyback on the TV to extend the reach of high-speed broadband?
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Solar-electric system on Tim Crawford’s 350-acre ranch is the biggest residential solar system in Montana.
“In our society, the more the individual can do to reverse our energy use, or make it more efficient, the better it is for all of us.” Tim Crawford
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- Technology becomes friendlier to older generations
A growing array of products and services is made with seniors' needs and preferences in mind.
- Five fearless predictions for the smart business of the 2010s
Here are a few predictions, or what I like to call HBIs (for “half-baked ideas”) about the changes businesses can expect over the coming decade:
- Performances of the decade: Missoula establishes itself as cultural capital of the Northern Rockies
Few things reflect the character and aspirations of a community more eloquently than its artistic events. In that sense, the first decade of this new millennium firmly established Missoula as the cultural capital of the Northern Rockies.
- Washington Foundation offers $200K challenge grant for National Folk Festival in Butte, Montana
"In 2009, the festival experienced an exponential increase in visitor attendance over the 2008 event. This proved Butte's ability to host a high-quality family event and attract attendees from all over," said Mike Halligan, executive director of the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation.
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