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	MATR Newsletter - Fri May 31, 2013

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Dorsey & Whitney LLP

• Chambers USA 2013 Recognizes Missoula, Montana Dorsey & Whitney Lawyers Manning, Semmens and Brown and Corporate/M&A Practice
  Chambers surveys and interviews clients and lawyers across the United States to determine which firms and attorneys are considered leaders in their field.

GigaPOP in Missoula

• Why Your City Should Compete With Google's Super-Speed Internet
  Rural communities, in particular, are underserved by broadband providers.

Northwestern Energy

• NorthWestern Energy Announces Agreement to Purchase Natural Gas Assets in Montana
  The purchase is consistent with NorthWestern Energy's strategy to incorporate proven natural gas production resources into its regulated natural gas supply portfolio.

Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism

• Changing the Conversation About Montana Tourism
  Since late 2011 Voices of Montana Tourism has been working to change the conversation about Montana's tourism industry by sharing our story with Montana leaders, residents and news outlets.

Great Falls Development Authority

• Great Falls Development Authority - Top Twelve 5-27-13
  Here's the GFDA Top 12 for this week, celebrating great things happening to move Great Falls Forward!

SRS Crisafulli, Inc.

• SRS Crisafulli News - Training: How to Remove Lagoon Sludge and Improve WWTP Outcomes
  What should you do when your town is under multiple and ongoing consent orders for violations of its Montana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (MPDES) wastewater discharge permit?

Inteneo Systems

• How social network analytics can combat fraud
  Today, health care is estimated to represent close to 18 percent of the gross domestic product of the United States. As this trend continues, agencies will see more and more instances of complex fraud perpetrated by organized crime.

Come Home Montana

• Montana Career Opportunity - Software Engineer - Vubiquity
  Providing services that help video service providers and content owners fulfill the promise of making premium content available to consumers on any screen by enabling them to monetize it through advertising, transaction or subscription.


• Montana Career Opportunity - Director - Voices of Montana Tourism
  Voices of Montana Tourism is a tourism industry coalition that formed in 2011 to raise awareness about tourism's value to Montana.


• MSU to begin search for new Vice President for Research, Creativity and Technology Transfer
  "MSU has a strong record of accomplishment in the areas of research, creativity and technology transfer, and we look forward to searching for a new Vice President who will help us continue to distinguish the university in these areas."

Montana Business

• Engines of our economy
  In Southwest Montana and across the country, entrepreneurial technology and service-based businesses are the engines of our economy.

Montana Economic Development

• Gov. Bullock kicks off Main Street Montana Project in Billings - Next week in Missoula. The project will then move to Great Falls, Miles City, and Bozeman.
  "This is not a government driven project," stated Johnstone. "It's going to be driven by the private sector; all phases and elements of the private sector: business, labor, education, economic development specialists at the community level."


• Bringing Flights to the Flathead - New group forms to help increase air travel to the Flathead and make it more affordable
  "We've made some gradual improvement since 2010," but limited air service can be a persistent barrier to economic development.

Careers

• 10 Life Lessons from Calvin & Hobbes
  Make Your Own Rules


• Emotional Intelligence Comes of Age
  Next month marks one of the first global conferences on emotional intelligence - NexusEQ - to provide numerous, substantive cases of how these concepts actually create positive change in business, education, and beyond. The conference will take place on June 24-26 at the Harvard Medical School Conference Center.

Government

• 5 Keys to Permitting Better Places
  Cities can be more healthy, engaging, beautiful and productive if they make it easier for citizens to contribute to making them so.

Idaho Business

• Making rural Idaho less remote with broadband Internet
  Look at a map showing broadband Internet access in Idaho and you'll see broad swaths of online nothingness.

Other Economies

• Boulder Chamber launches 'Innovation Blueprint' to drive economic development
  Under the chamber's Innovation Blueprint 3.0 program, a group of businesspeople, residents and municipal leaders will work together as "Team Boulder" to advance five components:

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

• More students turn to career academies
  "This is the end or the beginning of my dream." Happily, it was the beginning.

Montana Education/Business Partnerships

• CenturyLink awards $10,000 in grants to Capital High School teachers in Helena, Montana
  "At CenturyLink we like to reward teachers for finding innovative ways of using technology in their classrooms and Jim Weber and Tom Kain are perfect candidates for this kind of financial assistance."

Funding and Building your Business

• 5 Rules of Thumb for Startup Financial Projections
  I recommend a simple set of guidelines, which work for at least 80% of the business plans I see.


• How to hire good people instead of nice people
  Good and nice are not the same thing. The opposite of good is bad. The opposite of nice is unlikeable.

Government Technology

• Advancing the Civic Technology Movement
  "We're going to have to get better as cities at processing all of this info."

Cool Stuff That's Coming

• Bulletproof Paint Made from Rice
  A research chemist has developed paints made from rice husks able to resist bullets, fire, bacteria or rust.

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