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"Give everything you have, and after you've given, give what's left." Mitch Ditkoff Full Moon at Sunrise
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
Inteneo Systems
- Make the most of the new year by exploring Montana
In that spirit of exploration, here are adventures to check off your list in 2013.
Come Home Montana
- VC firm uses data analytics to pick entrepreneurs
Instead of relying on the gut instincts, punditry and armchair quarterbacking that VCs are notorious for, our firm is pattern replicating to decide which entrepreneurs to fund.
- How Constituent Self-Service Helps Government Save Money and Improve Services
Presenting citizens with unlimited and instant access to information is invaluable -- it provides greater transparency, builds trust and improves constituent services. Moreover, staff members can spend more time on higher-value tasks instead of answering phone calls, scanning documents, printing records and mailing them to constituents. This is especially important when considering budget cuts and rising constituent expectations for service.
Leadership Montana
- Montana Career Opportunities - Branch Manager / Project Manager, Outside Sales/Technology Advisor - First Call Computer Solutions
As complex as technology and business management is today, having an experienced Montana technology resource like First Call can be extremely helpful in achieving your goals.
Montana Business
- The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails
This article hits the nail on the head when it comes to why most leadership training programs don't work. Leadership is a development process that can be introduced through training but needs the practical application before leadership skills are enhanced. Karl Jones Organizational Insight
Economic Gardening
- Missoula JSEC Seeks Employer of Choice Nominations - Deadline January 18, 2013
Do you work for an amazing employer? Tell us about it!
- The Year's Coolest Literary Magazine Innovations - Missoula's Submittable
The service, a godsend both for publishers and writers, allows for beautifully simple submitting of work (and fast payment of a small fee if the outlet is charging one), and keeps track of all your active submissions in a nicely organized "dashboard" panel.
- Salient provides "product design from inspiration to production" - Based in beautiful Bozeman, Montana
Salient Technologies Inc. provides confidential product development service for inventors, manufacturers, and companies that want to achieve a competitive edge in the marketplace.
- Missoula company, Talus Outdoor Technologies helping outfit explorer's Antarctic trip
Missoula-based Talus Outdoor Technologies' popular Cold Avenger masks will be a key piece of the gear.
Government
- Chamber learns about economic gardening, other tools
An alternative to traditional economic development practices, it is based on the work of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher who noticed that most jobs in any community are created by existing, high-growth small businesses.
Idaho Business
- How effective is your state branding effort to promote trade and tourism?
The Ranking measures the effectiveness of brand strategies used by each of the 50 US states to attract Trade and Tourism.
Regional Economic Development
- Idaho workers' overall earnings last in nation
Idaho has one of the highest rates in the nation in which people work more than one job. He also noted that can be difficult for women with kids with no child support.
Wyoming Business
- The Pacific NorthWest Economic Region
The Pacific NorthWest Economic Region includes 10 states, provinces and territories; 20 million people; and a more than $ 1 trillion gross regional product. Together, the PNWER makes up the 14th largest economy in the world, just behind Australia.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Task force pushes University of Wyoming to reach 'greater heights'
"The members of the task force care deeply about Wyoming and we share a desire to have UW be a national leader in engineering," Mead said in a news release. "I thank the members of the task force for their expertise and their personal investment in this effort.
Montana Education Excellence
- Pay in Oil Fields, Not College, Is Luring Youths in Montana
At the end of a gravel highway in northeastern Montana, graduating seniors in Bainville are asking similar questions about their future. Should they get an education and pursue their interests?
- UM professors seek to improve teaching through Pedagogy Project
Even college professors still have things to learn.
Funding and Building your Business
- University of Montana looks to boost recruitment of graduating high school seniors
To help boost recruitment to the school, the UM Foundation is asking all university supporters to get involved in winning the hearts and minds of future high school graduates, and helping the university offer scholarship packages to recruit them.
- Montana ranks 3rd in high school graduates
Which state has the highest percentage of educated adults? It depends on the measurement you use.
Non-Profit News
- 9 Daily Habits That Will Make You Happier
Happiness is the only true measure of personal success. Making other people happy is the highest expression of success, but it's almost impossible to make others happy if you're not happy yourself.
- 2013: Measuring The Intangibles of Social Media
Smarter Companies think about achieving tangible results by better understanding and measuring the things that improve intangible capital. Are you a smarter company?
- Entrepreneurs Learn New Rules for Real Influence
We now live in a world where even subtle persuasion efforts are suspect.
- Few Entrepreneurs Achieve Extreme Leadership Status
The traits of radical and profound leaders (extreme leaders).
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- Nonprofit tech innovators inspire new philanthropy
Seeking out ideas to fund, rather than existing projects, turns traditional notions of philanthropy on its head.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- How to clean your laptop, inside and out
We're going to share a few easy ways to clean your laptop, inside and out, so you can get your year off to a smooth digital start.
- Mysterious Itch Cells Found
For decades, why we itch has been a mystery.
- 9 ways the Web and connected computing are going to change in 2013
Get ready, the Internet is about to change.
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