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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Nov 12, 2013 |
“Every man (and woman) dies. Not every man (and woman) really lives.” – William Wallace
W. JAMES MCNERNEY, JR. Chairman, The Montana Department of Commerce is looking for public feedback by 11/13 on the proposal to expand non-stop flights between Missoula and San Francisco. http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html --- President And Chief Executive Officer The Boeing Company, 11/13, Missoula, Montana http://www.matr.net/ev ... =4820 ---
Montana Economic Development Summit - 9-16/17, Butte, Montana
Next Generation Broadband in Missoula
- Sen Baucus' Montana Jobs Summit Videos Now Available on Charter "On Demand"
Keynote speakers featured on the rebroadcast of the summit include Google's Eric Schmidt, Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, former Presidential candidate and international businessman Jon Huntsman, Jr., Alan Mulally of Ford Motor Company, Oracle's Safra Catz, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney, founder of FedEx Fred Smith, Delta's Richard Anderson and, Montana's own, Ryan Lance, CEO of ConocoPhillips.
PrintingForLess
- Gigabit Internet in Portland: It's here, if you pick your spots
Maybe, someday we'll have super-fast Internet.
Arrow Solutions Group
- Download "Secrets to Direct Mail Success" White Paper
Broken into three steps, this white paper will take you from the basics of direct mail to advanced direct mail strategies.
Come Home Montana
- TecNet Winter Event,12/5, Billings, Montana
TecNet is a networking group for people who work in the technology field in the Billings, MT area. We are a casual group and always enjoy seeing new faces at our events.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - Enterprise Content Management Business Analyst - Flathead Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Design and implementation of solutions that support electronic and paper records management as well as enabling components such as the enterprise taxonomy, records retention and external reporting.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Software Developer - Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Thank you for your interest in employment with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Our employees come from all walks of life, bringing with them varying talents and diverse backgrounds. These employees form a dynamic, distinctive team of individuals dedicated to the RMEF's mission.
- The Women's Foundation of Montana - Creating a Brighter Future for Women and Girls
We believe that when women and girls prosper, communities thrive.
Flynn's Harp
- Density is the new driver of Seattle's innovation
Cross-pollination is the key.
- Blackstone entrepreneurship program getting underway at University of Montana - Director Position Open
The state received the three-year, $2 million grant in July to build the program at UM and Montana State University. In September, Blackstone hired Pamela Haxby-Cote in Butte to serve as the state's regional director, essentially bridging the two schools.
Leadership Montana
- Programs aimed at luring young people home
Programs that may help small towns send their best and brightest off for a time with the message that Thomas Wolfe was wrong. You can go home again.
Montana Business
- A positive change: Mentoring program helping Montana middle school girls. What is your community doing?
"The mentors are from such diverse backgrounds. It shows girls you can be anything you want to be, and that you do not want your behavior and your choices to limit you."
- Bill Gates: Here's My Plan to Improve Our World -- And How You Can Help
If you take the long view, by almost any measure of progress we are living in history's greatest era.
Montana Economic Development
- Eastern Montana the 'land of opportunity'
"Eastern Montana is the land of opportunity. It is home to the biggest energy boom in America. That's something we can be proud of."
- Spreading their wings in Bozeman, Montana - Former RightNow employees find their footing after billion-dollar exit
Since Oracle purchased RightNow in 2012, a number of businesses and organizations have spun out -- from a small group that works to foster the local community's entrepreneurial spirit to a 15-employee business-to-business advertising firm.
- St. Patrick again among top 50 heart hospitals in the U.S.
The award is especially welcome after the hospital underwent several changes recently, including a switch to an electronic medical records system, McGuire said. "So, for me, I'm extra excited about the Top 50 this year."
Careers
- The Montana Department of Commerce is looking for public feedback by 11/13 on the proposal to expand non-stop flights between Missoula and San Francisco.
The Montana Department of Commerce is looking for public feedback on the proposal to expand non-stop flights to San Francisco and they need input by Wednesday the 13th.
Idaho Business
- Be fearless when making a career change
Most people wouldn't enjoy the thrill of having their career stall out because of fear. Yet that's what happens when you allow fear to take over.
- Should Work Relationships Ever Be Friendships or More?
"Who's That Sitting At My Desk?"
- 7 Ways to Fast-Track Your Resume to the 'Yes' Pile
here are some ways you can fast-track your resume to the top of that recruiter's resume pile:
- Elevator Pitches Aren't Just for Entrepreneurs: Why Everyone Needs One
Anyone looking to find a job should look to this process for guidance when preparing to meet a potential employer.
- Certified Skills Welding program at Flathead Valley Community College earns rare distinction as nationally accredited facility
For the fourth consecutive year, businesses reported that employees with trade skills like welding, carpentry and machining were the hardest to find.
Regional Economic Development
- SCOR - How investors can help businesses through a little-known program
It's called the Small Company Offering Registration program, or SCOR.
Wyoming Business
- Cities Turn to Streetcars to Spur Economic Development
"The fact that Tucson could reinvent itself in the middle of the worst recession to hit the state since 1928 is astonishing."
MAPS : Media Arts in the Public Schools
- Wyoming Technology Business Center Wins National Competition
"The university is pleased to be recognized for its important effort to help people with great ideas build their businesses across Wyoming," says Bill Gern, UW vice president for research and economic development.
Montana Education Excellence
- MAPS Media Institute Founder and President Peter Rosten Honored as Purpose Prize Fellow 2013
Rosten brings after-school arts education to students in rural Montana to promote creativity--and launch careers.
Montana Education/Business Partnerships
- Robotics competition coming to Montana Tech on Nov. 16
This is the second consecutive year that Montana Tech has hosted this event. The public is welcome to attend. Admission is free.
Community
- Survey of artists, groups will help Missoula schools improve arts programs
On Friday, the survey will be available for artists, art organizations and people involved with arts to fill out.
Funding and Building your Business
- Why Cities Are Our Most Important Innovation Platform
It's is the inherent messiness of cities that creates the collisions that makes innovation happen.
- LearnTheAddress.org - Amazing....
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, documentarian Ken Burns, along with numerous partners, has launched a national effort to encourage everyone in America to video record themselves reading or reciting the speech.
Transportation
- $5.9 Mil Poverello Center Financing Provided by New Markets Tax Credits
A few of the main points about the financing that is playing a key role in the construction of the new Poverello Center
- Failure isn't just good, it allows for extraordinary innovation
For organizations to really say they have a culture of innovation, they have to not only accept failure, but celebrate it.
- 10 Common Startup Flaws Leading To An Early Demise
Ten top startup failure causes, seen over and over again
- Getting Ph.D.s to Think Like Entrepreneurs
I-Corps, which was started in 2011, is modeled on serial entrepreneur Steve Blank's popular Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford University.
- From cooking to ranching: Crowd-funding website brings a wide variety of Montana projects to market
"I think people around here feel pretty inspired by projects that have been launched" because of Kickstarter. Every day a few thousand projects land on the site" from people who want to "bring a creative idea to life."
- Ketchum, Hailey voters OK taxes to lure air service
Residents in Ketchum and Hailey have decided to raise city taxes to subsidize commercial airline service.
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