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“If you’re not growing through entrepreneurship, you’re not building a sustainable economy.†-- "Can Entrepreneurship Training Shrink Unemployment?" http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Condoleezza Rice To Speak At Montana State University 2012 Freshman Convocation, 9/5, Bozeman, Montana http://www.matr.net/ev ... =4259 --- City Club Missoula Presents: Mountain Pine Beetle In Our Western Forests, 9/10, Missoula, Montana http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html ---
Inteneo Systems
Come Home Montana
- Civics, Sweat, and Open Data: A Recipe for the Future of Government
"A 'Shared Platform' approach - Helps us work together, both within and across agencies, to reduce costs, streamline development, apply consistent standards, and ensure consistency in how we create and deliver information."
- How to Rebuild the City as a Platform
Cites must embrace open data policies and procedures
- Big Data Analytics Allows Businesses to Play Moneyball
Today, enterprises are no longer merely trying to get their heads around what the term big data means; the overwhelming number of enterprises are now seeking to leverage data insights and adopt data-driven processes.
- University of Washington Taps Technology For Dynamically Priced Tickets
Looking for a Huskies ticket? Apparently, what you pay for a ticket will be based on ticket demand, team performance, the opposing team, and more, thanks to a deal between the University of Washington and a pricing software firm, Digonex.
- Big Data Takes Center Stage In The 2012 Presidential Election
"Big data and mobile campaigning tools are revolutionizing the way campaigns are being won, and it's a serious challenge to party hierarchy," says Phillips. "You can be a candidate without party support and topple the party's nominee."
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- 10 states where youth rules - #4 Montana
Montana has a surprisingly high number of health clubs and top-rated bars for its population size. It's also a good place to find inexpensive rents, college tuition and youth insurance rates.
Montana Business
- Can Entrepreneurship Training Shrink Unemployment?
"If you're not growing through entrepreneurship, you're not building a sustainable economy."
- A Class Of Entrepreneurs That We Need - Veterans
Veterans are kick ass entrepreneurs.
Montana Economic Development
- Missoula, Montana could become "Big Data" tech hub
It is an industry with exciting potential, growing at seven times the already healthy rate of the overall information technology market, according to analysts at International Data Corp. And it is an industry with no established market center; there is no Silicon Valley of big data. Yet. That hub could be Missoula.
- Governor's awards celebrate innovation in Montana
"Everybody running for office, they're talking about change. They're going to change, change the world. Politicians don't change the world. Ideas, innovators, engineers change the world," Schweitzer said at a VIP event before the awards dinner. "We are celebrating innovators and innovation in Montana."
- Bacterin Secures $25 Million Financing with OrbiMed
With this financing, we don't anticipate the need for additional working capital in our pursuit of achieving profitability," said Guy Cook, Chairman and CEO of Bacterin.
- EverLogSystems Newsletter August 2012
Why Use EverLog Concrete Logs? Ask our customers ...
- "The Missing Link to Reducing Workers' Comp Costs" Part 2
Another way of looking at it: Safety is simply doing the job right, the first time. (Fred Miller offers money-saving safety tips in a 45-minute presentation titled, "The Missing Link to Reducing Work Comp Costs." He shares this with service clubs, civic groups or others interested in how safety helps produce a strong bottom line.
Careers
- Missoula's 45-acre Sawmill site moving forward
The developer has aimed to transform a portion of the blighted property into residential housing, office and retail space in central Missoula.
City Club Missoula
- Most Important Failure to Embrace
The goal is to fail... but not for lack of trying.
- Serious shortage of skilled auto mechanics looming
"We're finding we're going to run short of technicians in the very near future," says Rich Orbain, manager for General Motors' Service Technical College. "It's already getting very difficult to get young people interested in this as a career."
Incubators and R&D
- City Club Missoula Presents: Mountain Pine Beetle In Our Western Forests, 9/10, Missoula, Montana
What will this mean for the future habitability of the Earth?
Other Economies
- University of Montana Begins Fundraising For Powerful Telescope To Locate 'Exoplanets'
"It really elevates UM's profile and makes us very competitive for NASA and National Science Foundation funding."
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Gov. Announces Expansion, Rebranding of Statewide Innovation Network
"The Kentucky Innovation Network is an extremely valuable resource for Kentucky's budding entrepreneurs and is a big reason why the Commonwealth was ranked fifth among all states in the rate of new company formation during the past decade."
MAPS : Media Arts in the Public Schools
- Anonymous donor helps supply iPads for Missoula kindergartners - Free app lets parents create iPad games for their young kids
On day one, within 10 minutes, the 5-year-olds had already figured out how to take photos, how to access and play the learning games loaded onto the little machines and to share tips with one another.
Missoula Children's Theatre
- MAPS Media Institute adding music curriculum to class list
MAPS will add a new music curriculum, which will join the existing filmmaking and design classes.
Montana Education Excellence
- Missoula Children's Theatre teams return from staging plays around the world
This week 5 teams from MCT unpacked from excursions to Bahrain, Japan, Korea, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Guam and the Azores, among other countries.
Community
- MSU's news director, Tracy Ellig appointed as university's interim director of external relations
Montana State University's news director has been appointed interim director of external relations to serve as the university's primary liaison on state legislative matters, the university announced today.
Funding and Building your Business
- ONE new grant announcement
- Drop in dorm use at the University of Montana doesn't necessarily mean drop in enrollment
The surplus of rooms means that students who requested single rooms may be able to take those rooms earlier than in years past.
- Sustainability Science: a New Paradigm for Planning?
Sustainability science is concerned with preserving and improving the sustainability of the global (scientific), social (institutional) and human systems through a clarification of inter-relationships.
Energy and Climate Change
- Silicon Valley startup helps small companies do business in China
American companies hoping to pitch everything from technological components to tourist packages to Chinese consumers and companies face more than a language barrier.
- Moving Your Business Forward with Competitive Intelligence Training
If you want to stay ahead of your competition in today's highly competitive business environment, then you will need to be sure that have a team of executives that are trained in competitive intelligence.
- 6 Keys to Moving Startup Leaders From Good to Great
Leadership is not a skill one is born with, but it can be learned and honed from experience and failures.
- 6 LinkedIn Secrets to Attract New Customers
If you have a business or are starting one, you most likely already have a LinkedIn account. But if you don't, you should get one right away; LinkedIn can be a great form of networking for your business.
- Manage Your Online Reputation Before It Goes Bad
Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement.
Connectivity & Communications
- Technological Leadership Institute Director Envisions the Smart Grid
It's very possible that emerging markets could leapfrog other nations in smart grid markets and deployment.
- Utility's program rewards those who save as they build
"It makes a big difference in our budget," Amelia Hill said. "We never pay more than $100 a month for our electricity and natural gas together."
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Right tools can help protect your smartphone
There's no excuse for not backing up the files on your phone, and it's child's play on an iPhone.
- 3-D Printer Hack Produces Eye-Popping Color
With a professional color 3-D printer, like those made by ZCorp, designers have the ability to specify color down to a pixel level.
- 3D-Printed EV Racer Hits 88 MPH, Doesn't Go Back to 1955
3D printing was responsible for the entire car body, including the shark skin-inspired coarse-textured nose, the aerodynamics of which reduce drag and increase thrust. Inspiration came from high-tech swimsuits that give Olympians a speed advantage.
- Software adds joints for 3D printed figures
To print a joint with moving parts, the 3D printer deposits two different materials: a plastic that forms solid parts of the figure, and a temporary material that fills in what will eventually be empty spaces. This holds the figure together during printing, but the filler essentially turns to dust when the finished figure is first moved.
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