The State with the Best Education Wins!
	MATR Newsletter - Tue Apr 26, 2011

This MATR newsletter sponsored by: Add an event... Upcoming Events Excel Level III, 04/26, Bozeman Personal Safety In The Workplace, 4/26, Bozeman, Montana SBC's Annual Lecture - "Thoughts On Developing A Sustainable Community", 04/27, Missoula Andy Mangan - "Thoughts On Developing A Sustainable Community"., 4/27, University Of Montana Marketing For Results!, 4/27, Bozeman, Montana "Marketing For Economic Development" With Eric Canada, 4/27-28, Bozeman, Montana "Building Bridges To Prosperity Border Symposium" , 4/27, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada Marketing Your EDO, 4/28, Bozeman, Montana "Ethics For American Lawyers In The Age Of Twitter And The Cloud" - Roberta Cooper Ramo, 4/28, UM Missoula City Club Missoula Presents: Congressman Denny Rehberg, 4/28, Missoula, Montana Career Fair At Avail-TVN, 4/28, Kalispell, Montana "Sharpening Minds With Gifted Education" 4/28-30, Kalispell, Montana U. S. Department Of Energy National Science Bowl, 4/28-5/2, Washington, D.C. Invention To Venture: Workshops In Technology Entrepreneurship, 4/29, Spokane, WA MSU's "Expanding Your Horizons" For Girls In Grades 6, 7 And 8, 4/30, Bozeman, Montana Dave Dravecky Coming To Missoula, 04/30, Missoula Meeting And RFP On The Re-Use Of The Powell County Medical Center, 05/02, Deer Lodge Java Programming - Part 1, 05/02, Helena MATR supporter: New Events Andy Mangan - "Thoughts On Developing A Sustainable Community"., 4/27, University Of Montana Meeting And RFP On The Re-Use Of The Powell County Medical Center, 05/02, Deer Lodge Grant Writing Workshop Coming To Chinook, Montana May 5 & 6 New West Festival, 05/06, Missoula, MT Optimizing Regional Businesses Through Internet Technology, Various Dates And Communities In Montana Montana Employment Issues And 2011 Legislative Update, 05/19, Missoula SBA Awards Ceremony - Honoring Montana's Top Small Businesses & Advocates, 6/2, Helena, Montana "Wings Across The Big Sky" - Montana Audubon's Bird Festival, 6/3-5, Glasgow, Montana MATR supporter: MATR Web services provided by: To subscribe or unsubscribe from the free weekly MATR newsletter, please visit our list info page

"Leadership and learning are Indispensable to each other" John F. Kennedy - "Our experience working with hundreds of students allows us to identify key leadership skills and traits and suggest ways to greater mastery, so that they may be more effective at leading, thus becoming 'a natural born leader,'" Carmen McSpadden, Director, Montana State University Leadership Institute "Are leaders born or made? Innovative Montana State University Leadership Institute programs tap into students' potential to lead." http://matr.net/articl ... .html

5 Secrets to Launching a rural Economic Gardening program and...Can it work? http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html

Missoula Schools Excellence

• Vote 'yes' for education and Montana's future
  We ask you to vote "yes" on your mail-in ballot for elementary and high school mill levies.


• Writing coaches just one benefit of MCPS levy
  As writing coaches who see vital learning taking place in our public schools, we urge you to vote "yes" on May 3.

21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."

• High School Internship - Medical Research
  The 6-week research internship provided high school students entering 12th grade the opportunity to perform biomedical experiments in a research laboratory of their interest.


• Program teams with hospitals to give students job experience
  "Where the average high school student can typically walk into a job after high school, this program provides a level playing ground for students with disabilities."


• Why Principals Should Support Quality Pre-Kindergarten
  A new report highlights the benefits of high quality preschool and pre-kindergarten, suggesting it could cut the achievement gap by 20 percent, boost test scores and even improve behavior at school.


• A Trial Run for School Standards That Encourage Deeper Thought
  In three years, instruction in most of the country could look a lot like what is going on at Hillcrest, one of 100 schools in New York City experimenting with new curriculum standards known as the common core.

Arrow Solutions Group

• What Not to Say in a Job Interview
  It's not all that difficult to completely blow a job interview.

Highway 12 Ventures

• OK Boise: Now What?
  I'd love to hear from anyone and everyone who are going to get more involved in our collective efforts and how they're going to do it.

Big Sky Commerce

• Big Sky Commerce is supporting the Caras Park Capital Campaign in Missoula, Montana..
  Big Sky Commerce is privileged to serve clients all over the country. We encourage you, wherever you are, to support your downtown... the core of your city's energy.

Blackfoot Telecommunications Group

• Montana Education Technology Conference Newsletter April 2011
  Register today at http://www.blackfoot.com/etc and secure your place at the 2nd Annual Education Technology Conference on August 2-5, 2011 at the University of Montana!

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

• Do the implications of hiring independent contractors differ state to state? Read more: Do the implications of hiring independent contractors differ state to state?
  The federal IRS has guidelines it applies when examining this issue, and there are state agencies that apply their own differing standards.

MSU Leadership Institute

• The Keys to Authentic and Effective Leadership
  We wish we had a dollar for every time we've been asked, "How do I motivate employees?"


• Are leaders born or made? Innovative Montana State University Leadership Institute programs tap into students' potential to lead
  "Our experience working with hundreds of students allows us to identify key leadership skills and traits and suggest ways to greater mastery, so that they may be more effective at leading, thus becoming 'a natural born leader,'" Carmen McSpadden, Director, MSU Leadership Institute

TechRanch

• Optimizing Regional Businesses Through Internet Technology, Various Dates And Communities In Montana
  When businesses improve their online presence, they can increase their revenues.

The Burton K. Wheeler Center

• Wheeler Center launches think tank for young professionals interested in Montana's future
  The Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy is launching a summer colloquium for young professional leaders under 35 years of age with a five-day river expedition where participants will brainstorm on ideas to advance the future of Montana.

Visit Montana

• "Wings Across The Big Sky" - Montana Audubon's Bird Festival, 6/3-5, Glasgow, Montana
  See a lot of cool birds and learn about opportunities to protect and enhance habitats for many rare and declining birds inhabiting the region via our pre-festival workshops, field trips and afternoon presentations!

Come Home Montana

• Montana Career Opportunity - Business Strategist - Great Falls Development Authority
  Progressive, innovative economic development firm seeks a business strategist to help established businesses' senior leadership improve internal processes in operating activities.


• What can make Bozeman better?
  Implement economic development plan.


• Montana Career Opportunities - Engineers - Northwestern Energy
  NorthWestern Energy has immediate openings for a number of Engineer positions in our Engineering and Planning and Gas Sys. Integrity groups.

Three Cups of Tea - The Central Asia Institute

• Greg Mortenson & Three Cups of Tea
  Three Cups of Tea wasn't a co-written book, but you share a byline with the main character, Greg Mortenson. How did that come about?


• Pakistanis say Mortenson's story is filled with lies
  Mortenson's charity is under investigation by U.S. authorities. He has admitted only to "some omissions and compressions."


• The Greg Mortenson We Knew
  Defending the embattled head of the Bozeman, Montana-based Central Asia Institute.


• Lessons for Donors from 'Three Cups of Tea'
  It isn't easy being a donor--as the latest controversy over a high-profile charity demonstrates.

Warren Miller Freedom Foundation

• Students, city profit by nurturing entrepreneurship
  We don't need to wait for government to change the curriculum. It's within the power of local business leaders to help boost a worthwhile program to introduce students to the idea of being an entrepreneur.

Montana Economic Development

• U.S. to Host 2011 APEC Trade Talks in Montana Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation members represent more than half of global economy
  "The American West has always been a place of limitless possibility."

Regional Economic Development

• Relocation Services an Important Part of Economic Development
  "Businesses see us as extensions of themselves so we work hard to provide individualized services to ensure their employees will make smooth transitions and be happy in their new environment."

Careers

• EIGHT New Grant announcements
  


• Internships Have Value, Whether or Not Students Are Paid
  Academic internships are three-way partnerships among an institution of higher education, the intern­ship site, and the student. They have an irreplaceable role in the liberal arts by providing hands-on learning opportunities, allowing students to collaborate closely with faculty, and strengthening ties between the college and the community.

Economic Gardening

• 5 Secrets to Launching a rural Economic Gardening program and...Can it work?
  #1 - There are no secrets.

Funding and Building your Business

• Social Entrepreneurs Don't Need Profit For Success
  In the simplest of terms, these are people who seek to generate "social value", rather than profits, and use traditional business principles to create and manage a venture to make social change.


• What to look for in your first hires
  When I look back at our first 20 hires, the ones who are much more valuable now are the ones who also have the ability to be pretty dynamic.


• Businesses start to die when business model innovation stops
  Too many owners, CEOs and leadership teams assume you can win tomorrow's business with today's business model.


• 13 Ways To Pull Off A Killer Demo Day Presentation
  My presentation had one sentence at most per slide with an accent color highlighting what was a really important word for the audience to understand.

Montana Education Excellence

• Kitty Saylor says MSU aided transformation from aspiring musician to CEO of national company
  "I am thrilled to be reconnected with my university again," she said. "I've taught college courses, but I was in my early twenties then. What did I know? Now, I could actually teach something--how communication really works in international organizations. I would love to talk to university students about that. And to come back to MSU? Well, that would be my dream."


• Reimagining Yellowstone - MSU students, faculty and grads help brainstorm the future of one of America's greatest treasures
  It's about time


• The Montana State University Mountains & Minds Magazine Spring 2011
  Are leaders born or made?

Idaho Business

• Ednetics makes major investment in Post Falls, Idaho
  The business will be hiring specialists in data applications and network engineering.

Utah Business

• While other states flounder in debt, Utah stands as one of most fiscally fit in nation
  In Utah the big issue is public education.

Education

• Legislature Establishes New Online University for Washington State - WGU Washington
  WGU Washington is a wholly-owned subsidiary of nationally and regionally accredited Western Governors University.


• Fidelis College Raises Money to Actually Support Our Troops
  Gunnar Counselman may not only have one of the best entrepreneur names I've ever heard, he may also have come up with one of the first Silicon Valley-based, venture-backed online education startups that will help students, make money, and not be crushed by the lame-brain education establishment.

Government

• State auditor: Use competition for state printing jobs to save $5 million-plus yearly
  The State Auditor estimates these changes could result in savings of $5 million - $13.6 million a year.

Other Economies

• Ohio is spending $1.4 billion to attract jobs. Will it work?
  Ohio has launched what appears to be the biggest intervention in the private economy by a state government since at least the Great Depression,

Connectivity & Communications

• Quora.com
  A continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.

Energy and Climate Change

• Discovery Could Make Fuel Cells Much Cheaper
  "For all intents and purposes, this is a zero-cost catalyst in comparison to platinum, so it directly addresses one of the main barriers to hydrogen fuel cells."


• Energy Ecosystem of the Future Hinges on Many Sources - Idaho-based Solar Roadways
  Imagine driving on a road paved not with asphalt but with glass. And within this glass are photovoltaic cells that transform sunlight into electricity and send it directly to the homes lining the street. That's the aim of an Idaho-based company called Solar Roadways http://www.solarroadways.com/ .


• U.S. study says rising temperatures put Western water supplies at risk
  This report assesses climate change risks and how these risks could impact water operations, hydropower, flood control, and fish and wildlife in the western United States.

Miscellaneous Ramblings

• 11 Inspirational Quotes That Will Supercharge Your Day
  "The best way to predict the future is to create it."- Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee

Cool Stuff That's Coming

• Plastic, Heal Thyself: Scientists Invent Smart Polymers
  A new kind of plastic repairs itself when exposed to ordinary light.

Non-Profit News

• Butte-based National Center for Appropriate Technology looking for alternative funding
  Kathleen Hadley, NCAT's executive director, said NCAT will work to generate revenue to meet operating costs while Congress debates next year's budget. Some options include increasing private donations from corporations, foundations and individuals, as well as charging a fee for technical publications.

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