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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Nov 19, 2013 |
People have to live with themselves, and they should see to it that they always have good company." -- Charles Evans Hughes, American statesman
Invitation To Blackstone LaunchPad Grand Opening, 11/22, Bozeman, Montana http://www.matr.net/ev ... =4807
Montana Data Focused Business Cluster
Montana Economic Development Summit - 9-16/17, Butte, Montana
- Google Pushes for More Clean Energy in Land of the Data Centers
Facebook, for example, has vowed to source 25 percent of its data centers' power from renewable sources by 2015. But without utility companies to supply the clean energy, reaching that goal is a challenge.
TEDx Events in Montana
- Montana Jobs Summit Videos and Panel Discussions
Well worth your time.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- Today's TED Talk Greg Asner: Ecology from the air
What are our forests really made of?
Vision Net
- Havre Beneath the Streets: Montana Hi-Line's Underground City
"Our underground area brings more people here than anything else we've got.
- Jack Horner gives a sneak peek at a new T-Rex at the Museum of the Rockies
Jack Horner talks about his history and gives a tour of research rooms at the Museum of the Rockies
Come Home Montana
- Vision Net to Partner with ScienceLogic to Deliver a More Seamless Customer Service Experience
The ScienceLogic deployment means that in the event of an IT issue, an IT technician will be able to quickly scan applications, servers, network elements, or an IT service as a whole, from one user-friendly dashboard.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - Sales Support Administrator - Blackfoot Telecommunications
Ideal candidate will have an Associate's Degree in business/sales and at least 3 years of working in a multi-tasking administrative position.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Software Developer, Benefit Planning Account Specialist, Commercial Insurance Account Specialist - PayneWest Insurance
The Software Developer is responsible for developing requirements and functional specifications for applications as well as designing, coding, testing, implementing and supporting new software/modifying existing software.
Montana Business
- Tech entrepreneurs revive communal living
Filled with artists, scientists, people from the local tech scene and many types in-between, their mission statement says that they "value curiosity, analysis, questioning and engagement."
Montana Economic Development
- MO3 Consulting - Sales Process Optimization
There is always room for improvement when it comes to your Sales Process - the Fuel for Growth! Implementation of an MO3 Sales Process will improve results.
- Montana State Fund Declares Largest Dividend in Fifteen Years
Montana State Fund provides workers' compensation coverage and safety education resources to approximately 26,000 employers in the state, making it the largest workers' compensation insurance company in Montana.
- Billings, Montana based "Elation" teaches people how to live and work better by "elevating the ways they think.
Companies succeed when their employees thrive, and two Billings businessmen have launched a company called Elation http://www.elation.com/to carry that message worldwide.
- Billings' 1st Internet service provider announces closure
The pioneering local business had difficulty competing with the larger providers, which own the phone lines and other telecommunications infrastructure, said director Chris Little.
Careers
- Montana income's ups and downs: Great Falls coming back after long sag; Billings leads way
After lagging for 25 years to 2000, the Great Falls area has started to pick up some economic steam in recent years.
Government
- The 10 Fastest-Growing Job Titles Are All in Tech
Of the fastest growing job titles over the last five years, seven of the top 10 are technology positions that necessitate specific technical skills for developing software and mining data.
- TED Talk - Stefan Larsson: What doctors can learn from each other
Could health care get better -- and cheaper -- if doctors learn from each other in a continuous feedback loop?
Idaho Business
- Montana landowners providing public access will get 2014 tax breaks
A landowner could receive up to $2,000 worth of tax credits, depending on how many access points he can provide to different state lands.
Incubators and R&D
- Pocatello, Idaho mayor hopes Heinz will reconsider closure
Blad told the Idaho State Journal (http://bit.ly/1eauXIi) in a story on Saturday that 410 workers will be out of a job following the plant's scheduled closure in June.
Regional Business
- Public to scientists: tell us what you are doing
On balance the public thinks science and technology have a positive influence on society. But most people do not feel well-informed about the outputs of research.
- Idaho National Laboratory - Scientist Aaron Wilson wins award for innovative fracking wastewater-filtering technology
A new technology developed at Idaho National Laboratory could turn fracking wastewater back into potable water.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Tech firms now hiring more women than men
Usually, men make up 70% to 80% of the new hires, but according to the BLS, the tide seems to have turned in the last year.
Education
- Finland Eyes Programming Classes for Elementary School Students
"Kids today are growing up as natives to technology, and the sooner they get going, the better. It starts with games and familiarizing themselves with gadgets, and coding is a big part of that."
- More Schools Collecting, Using Student Data
A growing number of states are expanding the way they use student and school data.
Montana Education Excellence
- Obama to announce $100M in education grants
The government will award up to 40 grants to allow high schools to team up with higher education institutions and employers. The grants will be awarded early next year.
Community
- Montana Board of Regents looks to boost college enrollment
"Our Complete College Montana agenda plays into our commitment with the Legislature and how we demonstrate to the Legislature that we're spending our state's investment wisely," said Kevin McRae, deputy commissioner with the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education.
- Montana Family Medicine Residency programs attracts record number of applicants
"For our health care system to continue to evolve and become the health care system we're going to need under the Affordable Care Act, we're going to need a much larger base of primary-care physicians, specifically family physicians."
Funding and Building your Business
- Applications now being accepted for 2014 free technical assistance workshops
Communities interested in learning about smart growth strategies are welcome and encouraged to submit an application for one of 12 types of technical assistance workshops.
Connectivity & Communications
- Morris Panner uses lessons from cloud computing to help medical imaging business
This is really about a lesson in entrepreneurship. How to take a struggling company, pivot and place it on a footing where it can make money and do some good.
Government Technology
- Cutting-edge high speed internet connectivity arrives in Butte, Montana
"Butte-Silver Bow and the Butte community will use this as an economic development tool," Kambich said. "It's important that we have this project up and running before we replicate it. The priority is the school district."
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- How Cities Are Using Data To Save Lives
Traditional budgeting is easy, but it often produces budgets that protect underperforming services.
Transportation
- Legislation to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation by establishing a national network of fabrication laboratories, known as "fab labs."
Fab labs are small, community-based workshops that give members of the public - from students to small businesses - access to educational resources and high-tech equipment that can design, develop, and create new products.
- The room with 260 million surfaces: 3D printed architecture is here
The fabrication methods the duo used to print the room will, they believe, open the door to printing architecture, freeing architects to create new unimaginable buildings and also restore old ones.
- Flying Car Company Turns to Crowdfunding to Attract Investors
Now the company is turning to Wefunder in hopes of finishing up the design of their third prototype.
- Hyundai joins Toyota, Honda in hydrogen car parade
Get ready for the onslaught of hydrogen-powered cars.
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