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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Mar 11, 2014 |
In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. Budda
Wheeler Center Lecture: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell & Sen. Jon Tester, 3/14, Bozeman, Montana http://www.matr.net/ev ... =4943
Montana Data Focused Business Cluster
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Fix This/Big Data
"If we really want to have an impact on human well-being, these data and models have to be open and accessible"
- NIST seeks to bring rigor to data science
NIST is holding a symposium with big data specialists and data scientists to better understand the challenges around the emerging discipline.
- Delaware Seeks to Stem the Shortage of Cybersecurity Workers
In his State of the State speech in January, Gov. Jack Markell announced plans for the Delaware Cyber Initiative, which will bring together academia, workers and the private sector to develop a skilled and innovative cybersecurity workforce.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- United States Patent and Trademark Office issues guidance in the wake of Myriad and Prometheus decisions
The guidelines make clear that claims covering all types of subject matter, not just DNA, will now be examined to determine if they are effectively drawn to something that is naturally occurring, like the claims the Supreme Court found to be patent-ineligible in Myriad.
Great Falls Development Authority
- A Ski Race With Horsepower in Whitefish, Montana
Even being born and raised in Montana, I cannot think of another time when horse culture and ski culture meet with such common ambition.
Inteneo Systems
- GFDA Top 21 3/5/14
Here's the GFDA Top 21 for last week, celebrating great things happening to move Great Falls Forward!
- GFDA Top 9 3/16/14
Allegiant Air announced it will add a direct flight from Great Falls to Los Angeles (LAX) this summer starting in June! Congratulations to GTF, the Tourism Business Improvement District and supporting businesses and organizations for continued success in lowering air fares, boosting flights and attracting visitors to Great Falls!
Come Home Montana
- Views from the front lines of the data-analytics revolution
At a unique gathering of data-analytics leaders, new solutions began emerging to vexing privacy, talent, organizational, and frontline-adoption challenges.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - President and Chief Executive Officer Montana State University Alumni Foundation - Bozeman, MT
The Montana State University Alumni Foundation seeks an accomplished President and Chief Executive Officer to guide the Alumni Foundation to the next level of transformative support for the University.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Alumni Relations Officer - Chartered Chapters & Extension - Montana State University Alumni Foundation
We are continually seeking to build our team of talented professionals. If you do not see an immediate employment opening that matches your qualifications, yet feel you meet the MSU Alumni Foundation's hiring criteria, please email your application materials here to be considered for future employment opportunities.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Information Analyst - Northwestern Energy
Interact with business stakeholders to identify problems, needs, and opportunities for improvement
- Montana Career Opportunity - Information Analyst - Northwestern Energy
The successful candidate will work in a team environment to provide Application support relative to NorthWestern Energy's technology systems.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Data Network Engineer - Blackfoot Telecommunications
Responsibilities include design, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of Blackfoot's ISP, campus and customers' data networks.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Executive Director - Kootenai River Development Council, Inc.
This full time, salaried position will coordinate community development and business creation and expansion programs in South Lincoln County, Montana; manage the operations and development of Lincoln County Port Authority's industrial site, the Kootenai Business Park; organize grant writing activities; and implement the goals and objectives of Lincoln County's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy.
- Montana is Ranked as the #1 State in the Nation for Well-Being Conditions That Enable Residents to Achieve Their American Dream.
What Is Your State's Ranking?
Montana Business
- UM Entreprenreurs Club Presents - "Develop A Campaign" With Jeremy Sauter, 3/18
Come learn from Jeremy Sauter, who worked as a Marketer for Paramount Pictures, how to successfully develop a compelling and interesting Storytelling, portray the right Messages, and how to Develop a Campaign with your own Ideas.
MSU Leadership Institute & UM Global Leadership Initiative
- Montana Photonics Industry Alliance
The Montana Photonics Industry Alliance serves as a hub for Montana's optics and photonics companies, entrepreneurs, laboratories, and universities to commercialize, grow and sustain globally leading organizations that create high quality jobs and economic opportunity in Montana.
- 150+ attend Tester-hosted small-biz workshop in Helena
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester hosted his 14th Small Business Opportunity Workshop Friday at Carroll College. The workshop focused on connecting Montana's manufacturers with national industry leaders and trade/marketing experts.
- Missoula, Montana entrepreneur Michelle Huie finds market for stylish compression socks - VIM & VIGR socks
"I never anticipated such an amazing response."
- SBA District Director Wayne Gardella - Montana's economy bulking up: Cites better economic stats, credit access and cooperation
"I came up to Montana and fell in love with the place, and kept coming back for 12 years," he said. "While up here, I began to stay and do business, working with exporters and doing some financing seminars. There is a lot of exporting done by Montana businesses."
Careers
- What These 3 Influential Women Want Girls Everywhere to Know - Condoleezza Rice, Sheryl Sandberg, and Anna Maria Chávez
"She's too aggressive, too bossy," the teacher said. "You don't want to be bossy." For both young women, her point was clear: Girls aren't supposed to lead.
Developing an Angel Network in Montana
- Have you failed enough?
An important path to success is to enthusiastically mine your failures, and the failures of your team, for the intelligence you never would have gained otherwise.
Government
- Montana Based Frontier Angel Fund II Achieves Liftoff
One of the fund's objectives is to create wealth in Montana for Montanans and keep it here. Frontier Fund II aspires to be a knowledgeable, sophisticated and effective source of early stage capital for Montana and the region.
Idaho Business
- 10 Lessons in More Engaging Citizen Engagement
Cities are struggling to develop new and innovative community engagement methods, including those that embrace new technologies, social media, and collaborative design methods, to better bring the public into conversations on the future of city life.
- These Sidewalks Are Not Made for Walkin'
It was obvious that something has to be done about the condition of the City's sidewalks.
Incubators and R&D
- Idaho to deploy $2.4 million to train job seekers
Job seekers should attend a one-hour meeting on Friday, March 14 at one of the Department's seven offices in the southwest region.
Regional Business
- Google X: Secret lab for 'moonshot' research
At a time when other tech companies have trimmed research budgets or focused tightly on their core business, Google's X division is pursuing a range of seemingly outlandish ideas.
Regional Economic Development
- With Cerberus, Safeway may get revitalized, or lose assets
Private equity's primary goal - perhaps its only goal - is to make money for its investors within five years or so, not necessarily to ensure the survival of Safeway.
- New Native Project Banks on Buffalo
Cris Stainbrook, who heads the Indian Land Tenure Foundation, based in Little Canada, Minnesota, says re-introducing buffalo in large numbers to the Great Plains would also be great for the environment. He says it could help restore the prairie and aid in the sequestration of carbon.
- Safeway's new owner not afraid to make changes
In 2006, Cerberus Capital Management bought more than 600 Albertsons grocery stores, including more than 170 in Northern California. Today, following dozens of store closures and the sale of dozens more, not a single Albertsons is left in Northern California.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Small Business Development - Key to America's Cities Economic Future
So, where can you begin if you lack some of the elements to attract innovative entrepreneurs?
- Bible for business-site selectors overlooks Northwest
No state in the Northwest made Site Selection's ranking the top 10 of states that attracted the most new plants in 2013.
Education
- TED Talk - Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools
Watch to find out the single factor that makes some systems outperform others.
- Partovi twins quietly emerge as top Silicon Valley angel investors - Now growing Code.org
why do Code.org as a nonprofit? I get asked that all the time. There's lots of companies going the for-profit route in teaching computer science, but they don't look much at how to improve public schools, the neediest schools that have no resources. We've gotten the president of the United States involved, we've gotten Mark Zuckerberg doing lectures for us, we've gotten this on the homepage of Google. A for-profit company couldn't do any of those things.
- Code.org - Computer science education for every student in school
Sign your name if you think every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science
- She++ video library seeks to encourage women in computer science
"We felt that was important for young girls to see role models who are the same gender as them, so they can see programming isn't just for boys and nerds. There are cool women just like me doing amazing things with technology."
- What's Homework Got to Do with It? Competency Works
What is Proficiency-based Grading?
- Stanford research shows pitfalls of homework
More than two hours of homework a night may be counterproductive, according to the study.
Montana Education Excellence
- Chicago 'Reinvents' Community College
After taking a hard look over the past several years at why its City Colleges students weren't graduating in sufficient numbers or attracting the attention of employers, Chicago decided to make big changes.
Community
- MSU adds new master's degree, minor in laser and imaging optics
"By offering graduate-level studies in optical sciences, we will be adding significantly to the intellectual capital coming out of MSU that has been a big part of growing an optics economy in Bozeman."
- Montana regents get crash course in strategic plan
"It's important that we invest as a system in revisiting old projects and exploring new ones, and making sure we're relevant in our discussions."
- Montana colleges see sharp increase in student loan defaults
"This is a serious concern for all of us as board members," said Major Robinson, a regent from Billings. "The rates continue to rise, and that's incredibly alarming."
- How does MSU President Waded Cruzado do it? - How did MSU land $50 million gift -- hard work, relationships or magic?
Cruzado wants to improve the university, and because state funds and student tuition dollars are limited, one way to do that is private donations, Ferris said. The Foundation has supported her efforts by increasing staffing and doing more "prospecting,"
- Montana first to implement computerized pilot program for standardized tests
"Rather than just having to read a passage and answer stuff about the plot, students are going to really have to know content to answer these computer-based questions."
Funding and Building your Business
- Report: Montana has lowest obesity rate in U.S.
"I think we're in the right direction and people are caring and paying attention and making healthier choices."
- Wyoming, Montana exude legacy of Scotland
McKenzie is one of the 14 Scots featured in a current display at the museum titled "Scots in the American West." The show will travel to New York City at the end of March to take part in the 13th annual Tartan Day celebration on Ellis Island.
Connectivity & Communications
- Reminder: Made in America grants available for Montana companies
Many U.S. companies are eligible to receive up to $75,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms Program, to help fund projects of their choice.
- Giving Older Entrepreneurs a Boost
AARP's new focus on entrepreneurship is attracting younger retirees to the organization: "It has helped us find a new constituency among people who may not have viewed us as relevant in the past."
- Your small business really does need mobile
You cannot ignore your mobile website; indeed, for most small businesses, it needs to become a priority.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Here's How Comcast Plans to Rule American Cable and Internet
It's been a little more than 100 years since this country witnessed an accumulation of economic power to rival what Comcast is assembling.
HACKING AND VIRUS ALERTS
- The Quantified Computer Scientist: Larry Smarr on the Future of Medicine
Health care today is about, you get sick and then you get health care. Instead, we're going to keep you healthy so you don't need health care.
- Facebook Paper Has Forever Changed the Way We Build Mobile Apps
'Everyone's jaws just dropped. Everyone started exchanging these glances that were like: 'What did he just do?'
- Oscar Mayer Creates Wake-Up App With Bacon Smell
The scent-emitting plug-in will only be available to the 4,700 winners of a contest.
Transportation
- Windows XP in Utilities (and everywhere else) Could Mean Big Security Problems
Windows XP is widely used on workstations in nearly all of the electric and gas utilities in the U.S.
- Spokane giving all-electric buses a tryout
BYD is an international leader in battery and alternative-energy technology with investment backing from Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway Inc.
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