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I will gauran-dang-tee it, that Montana’s best days are ahead of us.” Governor Brian Schweitzer
Montana Career Opportunities - Multiple Positions - Modwest http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html ---
City Club Missoula
Come Home Montana
- University of Montana President Royce Engstrom at City Club Missoula
"It's been a real delight to go out and talk about The University of Montana around the state and around the country."
Developing Tech Jobs in Rural Communities
- Montana Career Opportunities - Multiple Positions - Modwest
If you're tech-savvy, ready for a challenge, motivated by providing fantastic customer service, and interested in joining our high-performance team of great people in Missoula, we'd love to hear from you!
- Wave to Your Fellow Travelers - Simple act on the road can bring us together
You will find that this simple act, this distant handshake will help to cement us together as a community and a people. We are all in this together!
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Telework Enhancement Act, is now the law of the land
Each agency must designate a Telework Managing Officer, and must incorporate telework into its continuity of operations plan.
Montana Biotech
- How to create a startup country
So why is it that in one of the most advanced countries in the world, we're still using the legal technology ... of 1787? I mean, if you drove a car from 1787, it would be a horse!
Montana Business
- Gazette opinion: Let's nurture Montana's biotech industry
Montana businesses are on the cutting edge of biotech research.
- Biotech: pioneering treatments and bolstering U.S. economy
Research and development are the foundation for groundbreaking medical discoveries and treatments.
Regional Economic Development
- Eastern part of Montana faring better economically
Eastern Montana can brag that during the year it has done better than Western Montana, which is suffering from a crash in real estate and the near demise of its timber industry.
- 2010 a whirlwind for successful Missoula online company - WhoCanHelp.com
Whocanhelp.com now has some tough decisions to make, sell out to one of the Internet giants or try to build a larger group of investors in Montana.
Careers
- West's most diverse economies weather recession best
As Montana and the West slowly recover from the recent recession, lessons are emerging about why some local economies performed better than others.
- The Goal of Economic Development: To Create Hope, Wealth, and Choices Supporting Entrepreneurship
These goals "invoke themes with deep roots in American culture: faith in the future, the desire for freedom, and the demand for choice.
Funding and Building your Business
- Top Programming Languages for 2011
As 2011 approaches, eWEEK takes a look at the top 18 programming languages for developers going into the new year.
- Obama to shut down Federal Career Intern Program
President Obama plans to issue an executive order, perhaps as early as this week, ending a federal internship program that critics say circumvents proper hiring practices.
University Business Plan Competitions
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm
Creative thinking is a kind of expertise.
- Here's The URL That Bank Of America Really Wants To Buy But Can't: BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.COM
Bank of America now has another PR disaster on its hands, one that was completely self-imposed. http://www.bankofamericasucks.com/
- Six Tips to Maximizing Your Advisory Board Value
Used correctly, they will be your best advocates to investors, and can save you from making major mistakes.
- Want To Test Your Startup Idea? Try The $20 Starbucks Test
...And then you pitch them your idea, and take note of all their objections.
- How a Small Business Becomes a Big Business
The answer can be summarized in two words: math and service. Let's start with the math.
Idaho Business
- Contests are a springboard for student entrepreneurs
Business-plan competitions give people a chance to start companies -- or at least make connections -- while still in college.
Utah Business
- Idaho invests in videoconferencing
New technology helps companies and state agencies save money on travel expenses
2011 Montana Legislature
- From Salt Lake, Xi3's tiny computer takes on industry giants
Xi3 http://xi3.org/ is a Utah company coming out with a new computer, a small cube you can easily hold in your hand but has all the computing power of a desktop but uses only a fifth of the energy. It's also more stable, long lasting and can be modified as new innovations take hold.
Government
- Montana Governor Schweitzer says jobs a priority
"If it doesn't create employment, I won't be supporting it at 2011 Legislature." Governor Brian Schweitzer http://governor.mt.gov/
- Area lawmakers offer bills for 2011 session
Here is a rundown of the bills that southwest Montana legislators plan to carry.
- Flathead Valley Community College and MSU Billings prepare for legislative session
"Right now, the funding we get from the state will be the main issue we focus on," college President Jane Karas said. "We're not going to ask for extra funding for special projects."
Community
- Do rural voters want fewer benefits?
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., knows how to look out for his constituents' interests, at least their short-term ones, but his explanation of his dissent from the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction commission exposes one of the great ironies of U.S. fiscal policy.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- Top 5 overlooked stories of 2010
Here we note five overlooked stories of 2010 - developments that might have received some press coverage but perhaps not as much as they should have, given the impact they could have on various aspects of American life in the years ahead.
- O'Brien: 11 Predictions for 2011, including Google buys Twitter, Yahoo axes Bartz and Facebook hits the billion mark
Without further adieu, here are my 11 predictions for 2011:
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