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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Apr 30, 2013 |
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." -C. S. Lewis
Northwestern Energy
Inteneo Systems
- NorthWestern Energy Program for Businesses Receives National Kudos
Since 2006, E+ Business Partners has resulted in energy savings of more than 18,500,000 kWh of electricity, or enough to power more than 2,050 homes for a year.
Come Home Montana
- Business Intelligence: The Importance of Time to Value
Technology is meant to support our business operations and not make the decisions for us.
- Why Business Leaders Must Master Data And Analytics
Unlike their predecessors, analytic savvy managers must be highly capable of discovering patterns and finding relationships in complex data.
- Employee fraud: Tallying the costs for Montana businesses
Small businesses are some of the hardest hit by theft and embezzlement.
Leadership Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - Director of Loan Services - Bear Paw Development Corporation of Northern Montana
Knowledge of commercial financing practices and procedures, including preparation of sound business plans, maintenance of business accounting systems, and analysis of financial information (ratios, cash flow, breakeven point, etc.) to gauge business performance and make recommendations regarding product pricing, management practices, and marketing strategies.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Associate Director, Technology Services Management - Analyst/Administrative Associate - University of Montana Western
Montana Western is the only public college in the country to offer Experience One, an innovative program in which students take one class at a time.
- Laying Virtual Tracks to the Flathead - TrainSimulator 2013
The route is famous for its spectacular bridges, and these are accurately depicted alongside other features including mountain snow sheds, the silo 'Dalek' at Browning, Belton Lake, the concrete Penguin at Cut Bank, a large marshalling yard at Whitefish, industrial facilities throughout the route and the 13 mile branch line to Kalispell.
Montana Business
- Montana's Champion for Change - "Highlighting the work these kids do is an inspiration to all of us."
"Extraordinary young folks like Vance who are willing to get involved are the future leaders of Indian Country, our state and our nation," said Montana Sen. Jon Tester, who was one of the senators who hosted the Champions for Change.
Montana Economic Development
- Small Hotels Have Big Impacts On Montana's Smaller Communities
"These smaller, non-franchise hotels have the ability to draw visitors to some of the lesser-known communities in Montana and boost their economy,"
- Billings Clinic starting Internal Medicine Residency Program
With primary care physicians so hard to come by, Billings Clinic has come up with an innovative solution. It plans to grow its own.
- "Marketplace Fairness" act unfair to Montana, small business owners say
"This law is proposed by the Internet giant Amazon to prevent small businesses from prospering online," Markel said. "They already have 33 percent of all Internet transactions and will now have legislation to maintain or even increase market share."
- Online sales tax bill could crash in House
But while Democratic leaders in the Senate supported the bill enough to bypass the Finance Committee and bring it straight to the floor, the GOP brass in the House has so far shown little interest in the measure. k
The Missoula Economic Partnership
- PAW PRINTS Bear Paw Development Corporation of Northern Montana Spring 2013
" With the $6.2 million of investment Bear Paw coordinated last year, the total impact over the past five years is in excess of $47 million. For an area as rural as ours, we know this level of investment is having a clear and helpful impact on Main Street... " - Shaud Schwarzbach President, Bear Paw Board of Directors
Careers
- Economic growth requires shared vision, solo effort
Successful communities, he argues, possess a "smart game plan" and "robust investment" that are applied through "sustained effort."
Business Plan Forums
- "I don't deserve a job."
Getting back into the workforce can be tough, but intentionally quitting your job-hunt may make it nearly impossible.
Incubators and R&D
- Montana University System John Ruffatto Business Plan Competition
The John Ruffatto Business Plan Competition is designed to provide a positive educational experience in which students can develop their business ideas and receive feedback and advice from experienced business professionals, to create a forum for students to interact with the community, and to foster economic growth.
Wyoming Business
- Harvard to receive $50 million to speed translation of research into therapies
"By increasing the collaborative efforts between Harvard Business School and Harvard's scientific community, we will empower the next generation of life science entrepreneurs and provide a further catalyst for innovation and research development."
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Wyoming Governor Matt Mead: Don't examine global effects of coal
Noting the coal exports could result in 240 million tons per year of carbon dioxide emissions, the Democratic governors wrote it is "hard to conceive that the federal government would ignore the inevitable consequences of coal leasing and coal export."
Montana Education Excellence
- Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction - Five-year-old hacks fire department's Twitter account
What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.
Funding and Building your Business
- University of Montana approves themed housing
Three homes owned by the University of Montana will offer students living options unique to their interests starting next fall.
- University of Montana Research View Spring 2013
University unveils programs of distinction - Three top programs at UM -- creative writing, organismal biology and ecology, and wildlife biology -- recently were named Programs of National Distinction (PoND).
- University of Montana's $16M budget gap brings tough choices
"We need to preserve the educational experience as much as we can. Students take top priority." UM President Royce Engstrom
- University of Montana focuses on boosting enrollment - New website released
Less than two years ago, the school set out to refine its message and develop a new brand. In January, it hired Mario Schulzke as its assistant vice president for marketing to carry out the plan.
- Missoula High School Students: Inspiring, Imaginative, Innovative - Do these words describe you? Then consider i3 this summer.
i3 Missoula is a unique and exciting non-traditional summer opportunity specifically for teachers and high school students.
Energy and Climate Change
- Why a Customer Service Culture Never Starts with Customers
It's even more simple than you think. Employees will treat your customers exactly the way you treat them. If your employees are well cared for, they will focus on being good to your customers.
- 10 Tips For Entrepreneurs on How to Hang Tough
Startup success is all about execution, all while facing determined competitors and overcoming customers' resistance to change.
- 7 Keys to Finding the Right Startup Mentor for You
Like any other relationship, it takes work on both sides to make mentoring work.
- 5 Startup Hiring Mistakes That Can Crush Your Culture
Gaining access to the right resources now often marks the difference between success and failure.
- How Entrepreneurs Come Up With Great Ideas
There is no magic formula. But that doesn't mean there's no formula at all.
Legislative Newsletters
- Delaware has key role in creating electric vehicles that add power to the grid
Electric car batteries connected to the grid as a piece of the system needed to stabilize energy peaks and valleys that come when wind and solar generators cannot produce on command.
- Researchers Develop Powerful New Micro-Battery
These kinds of batteries can "deliver far more power than anybody ever thought."
Connectivity & Communications
- Max to Montanans: Thank you. Now let's get to work.
Above all else, I want you to know I am grateful for the privilege to serve you. I look forward to working with you as I continue to serve the state I love for the next year and a half. Thank you. Now let's get to work.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- $7.7M grant provides online mental-health services in Montana, Wyoming
HLN is an Online Clinic where meaningful care comes to you via Telemedicine at home, work, school or vacation. Our network of physicians and other health providers -- through secure videoconferencing and interaction - connect with you wherever you are. Any computer with a webcam is now your personal, private connection to healthcare day or night.
- Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business"
"It's very easy to bemoan the consequences of the interconnectedness of the world. It's a better use of your time to make sure that you're doing your part. Because it's going to happen." Eric Schmidt
- The man behind bag fees
Hate paying to check your bags? Meet John Thomas, who first suggested the practice that now nets airlines $3 billion a year.
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