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| MATR Newsletter - Fri Jun 13, 2014 |
"Historically, we educated students to occupy existing jobs. It's a different mind frame to educate students to create jobs." Dr. Renee Reijo Pera, Montana State University Vice President of Research and Economic Development http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
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2014 Montana Politics
Early Edge Montana
- Gazette opinion: Initiative 172 won't lower cable bills - Charter knew its Montana tax liability when it invested here.
We want to see everyone pay the least amount of taxes allowed by law. But when it comes to property tax breaks, Montanans are all in it together.
ikuw Solutions
- Editorial: Montana lawmakers urged to do right thing and fund universal preschool for our state's children
Even the most frugal legislators should be willing to set politics aside and do what's right for our children, our schools and our state.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Become a Certified ScrumMaster with ikuw Solutions
Taking a CSM course, passing the CSM test, and accepting the license agreement designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to and understand the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- Attorneys Stephen Bell and Jack Manning of Dorsey & Whitney in Missoula, Montana Recognized as 2014 Mountain States Super Attorneys
"This is well deserved recognition for Stephen and Jack," noted Dorsey & Whitney Managing Partner, Ken Cutler.
Inteneo Systems
- The Wild and Scenic Missouri River - Fort Benton, Scenic Floats and the Electric City
There's nothing like paddling and fishing the Missouri, but tepee rings, petroglyphs, homesteads and even steamboat wrecks provide plenty of on-shore distractions.
Come Home Montana
- Why Do Silos Form and How Can We Knock Them Down?
There is a cartoon that illustrates the impact silos have on a company. Picture a large row boat with four men, two at the front and two at the back. The boat has a hole in it and the front of the boat is filling quickly with water. The two men in the front are frantically bailing the water out of the boat as fast as possible. One of the men in the back turns to the other and says "I sure am glad the hole is not at our end of the boat!"
- The Cure for Health Care Is in Big Data, Not the Beltway
Enterprise health care is the only area that hasn't been dramatically improved with technology platforms.
- Big Data Is Changing the Game for Recruiters
It is a future driven by big data -- a powerful analytical approach that is simultaneously changing the way recruitment happens and re-emphasizing that it is the recruiter, not the talent, who is at the core of the process.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - Software Developer - Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Use your software development skills to provide tools and support to the staff, volunteers, and members of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
Montana Business
- Montana young people creative in business ventures
Entrepreneurship seems to be in the veins of the millennials
Montana Economic Development
- Montana based Dasher close to launching new online image service
The next step for Dasher, aside from polishing its software and the offerings accompanying it, is to figure out pricing. Ferguson said the company has started to entertain the idea of seeking out investors as it grows. The company started as an entertaining side gig and is growing into the workweek.
- Serial Montana Entrepreneurs Glenn Kreisel and Ben Bloch Release The DJYRO(TM) - The First Truly Smart Toy for Everyone.
Taking a practically motionless device and transforming it into a sensory experience.
- Montana's Sanderson Stewart Named U.S. Chamber's 2014 Small Business of the Year
"Sanderson Stewart's outstanding leadership, track record, and operating style truly set it apart and make it a prime example of what it means to be a successful small business," U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue said.
TEDx Events in Montana
- More Jobs for Montanans as Montana CDC Receives $55 Million to Fund Business Start Ups and Expansions
This is the fifth award received by Montana CDC which now has received $276 million cumulatively. These tax credits are powerful for creating jobs. Montana CDC works with investors to turn the credits into cash and then uses that cash to fund business start ups and expansions in Montana and Idaho.
- One Nation Brewing Community in Missoula, Montana
"Instead of used car lots and shabby hotels," she says, "we want to see thriving businesses come in which will create a better neighborhood and then better businesses and prosperity and values."
Careers
- Today's TED Talk Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize non-violent protest
"I thought it would be a safe way to do something positive," he says. Instead, he was arrested, and so began his ongoing journey into a world in which peaceful protest is branded as terrorism.
Next Generation Broadband in Missoula
- The outrageous cost of working in medicine
Projections show that we will need 124,000 more physicians, 157,000 more pharmacists and up to 1 million more nurses in the United States over the next 10 to 20 years, in part due to expanded coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Yet today, low-income students are discouraged from applying to medical, dental and other health programs because of high tuition and insufficient scholarship funds.
- Job openings soar to highest since 2007
Job openings in April soared to their highest level in almost seven years in another sign of the labor market's growing strength.
- Ask yourself why you're looking for another job
When you're interviewing, pay attention to what isn't being said as well as what is being said.
Government
- Holding Back High-Speed Internet for the Poor's Sake Just Hurts Everyone
We should worry about the digital divide caused by affordability and the lack of digital readiness more than any theoretical divide caused by new fiber options.
Idaho Business
- USDA Seeks Applications for Grants to Help Repair Housing in Rural Areas
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is seeking applications for grants to preserve and repair housing for very-low- and low-income families living in rural areas.
- The Most Small Business-Friendly States
Governments pursue a range of policies to prop up the small businesses that serve as key components to growing local economies.
- The City Accelerator - Encouraging a culture and practice of innovation in local government
The City Accelerator, an initiative of Living Cities and the Citi Foundation, aims to help accelerate the adoption of such innovations within and across cities.
- Montana is only state without driver texting ban
"I am disappointed that once again we're last to take something regarding highway safety seriously," State Department of Transportation Director Mike Tooley said, noting the state went without a statewide law on child safety restraints for years.
Oregon Economic Development
- Nearly 700 Idaho educators to attend summer i-STEM Teacher Institutes
Idaho educators will learn about science, technology, engineering and math-based topics and how to use the information in their classrooms during six low-cost workshops held around the state in June.
- Salmon Social app makers fine-tune beta version
The app, which allows users to check in and see the ages and genders of other app users at businesses such as bars and restaurants, was built in 62 days.
- University of Idaho wins funds to sustain biomedical research, education
The National Institutes of Health Institutional Development Award program builds research capacities in states that historically have had low levels of NIH funding by supporting basic, clinical and translational research, faculty development and infrastructure improvements.
Regional Business
- Google Fiber franchise wins approval from Portland City Council -- Here's what's next
Google plans to decide by the end of the year whether to proceed with service in Portland and five suburbs (Gresham, Tigard, Lake Oswego, Beaverton and Hillsboro.)
Regional Economic Development
- A New Way to Look at Law, With Data Viz and Machine Learning
Using data visualization, language analysis, and machine learning, the Stanford Law grads are aiming to reinvent legal research-and perhaps give young lawyers a deeper understanding of their field in the process.
- Medical residency slots in short supply
"Everybody goes into medical school wanting to have unlimited choice of specialty and geographic areas," she said. "But depending upon a number of factors, including performance in medical school or what school you go to, might affect your ability to match into a program."
- Great Men, great pay? Why CEO compensation is sky high.
Why are so many chief executive compensation packages so outrageous? And why do they continue to roar ahead of most workers' pay?
University of Montana & Montana State University Tech Transfer
- Cities Promote 'Innovation Districts' for Economic Development
Innovation districts can allow cities and firms to work better together by integrating housing, recreation and workplaces within a small physical place, as opposed to isolated corporate parks accessible by car.
- GIS data on website plays major role in Florida economic development success
"At the very first meeting we had with the site consultants from McCallum Sweeney, they wanted to know who were the corporate headquarters that were here, where they were, and how many employees they had," explained Brent Barkway, business development director at Lee County EDO. "So one of the first things we did was map out what headquarter locations we had, how many employees, whatever wage information we had, and then show them in a presentation where these other headquarters were.
- Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Economic Development Funding To Create Jobs and Economic Opportunities in Rural Communities
This process, dubbed "Re-Energizing Main Street's Economic Performance," helped implement a revitalization and growth plan for downtown businesses.
Washington State Business
- Breakthrough ag technology from MSU heads to EPA for approval
"This is a technology that could save farmers around the world millions of dollars by providing disease control when used alone, reducing fungicide use when used in combination with fungicides and by helping to manage fungicide-resistance outbreaks," Jacobsen said.
Education
- Equity company buys Coldwater Creek assets, talks of relaunch
Sycamore Partners has acquired Coldwater Creek's brand names, company trademarks, website and some intellectual property, said Jim Bell, Coldwater Creek's chief operating officer.
Montana Education Excellence
- Seattle's tech boom isn't just for rich kids: 3 programs reinvigorating STEM education
As part of Crosscut's Community Idea Lab, we highlight three programs diversifying Seattle's tech workforce.
- Here's Why the Student Loan Market Is Completely Insane
The administration's efforts don't address a more fundamental problem: These loans aren't calibrated for risk.
Community
- Report: Montana's combined student loan debt more than $3B
Attending college in Montana remains less than in most other states. But because Montanans don't earn as much, the percent they pay toward education increases, and loans are tougher to pay off.
- Montana State University's new research VP Renee Reijo Pera aims to boost Montana's economy and jobs
"Historically, we educated students to occupy existing jobs," Reijo Pera said. "It's a different mind frame to educate students to create jobs."
- Montana State University scores big with newest recruit - Dr. Renee Reijo Pera, Vice President of Research and Economic Development
Today, she shared her thoughts on why she thinks she can help make MSU the premier center for research and technology in the Rocky Mountain West.
Funding and Building your Business
- What's up at One Montana?
Now that we have reached midyear, we wanted to update you on all of the progress being made on One Montana programs. We are excited about the success of these programs and hope you will be too!
- What Does Your City Really Want to Be?
Where does a city get knowledge of itself that's useful for branding?
- New study suggests street harassment is widespread
"There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about what street harassment is. A lot of people think of the stereotype of a woman in a short skirt walking by a construction site, when it's so much more than that. It really has a negative impact on harassed people's lives."
Energy and Climate Change
- Walsh sponsors bill to strengthen Montana's small businesses
"Creating access to capital for our small businesses allows them to grow and hire more employees on Main Street throughout Montana," Walsh said. "Entrepreneurs with smart ideas and good products shouldn't be held back because of a lack of access to capital."
- Entrepreneurs Turn to a New Source of Funds: Their Neighbors
Small businesses, for their part, should lobby their neighbors and customers for support if banks don't come through with financing.
- Why Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) Built an Amazing Board of Directors to Change the World
Elizabeth Holmes http://www.theranos.com/ realized that changing the way health care is delivered in this country would require the help of great strategists.
Connectivity & Communications
- A fuel cell for the home
With an output of one kilowatt, they cover the average current consumption for a four-person household.
Government Technology
- Box CEO: Balkanization of the Internet Would Be 'Incredibly Bad'
"Policymakers and government officials are starting to talk about what it would mean to have these nationalistic clouds. That would be an incredibly bad outcome for the type of interconnectedness we're starting to see from global companies."
- San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Offer Encrypted Wi-Fi
Marc Touitou is hopeful that what's starting as a small Wi-Fi hot spot on Market Street in San Francisco will soon become the standard for cities around the world.
- 3 Tech Enhancements to Current Networks That Could Render the Net Neutrality Debate Obsolete
We should stop fighting about how to apply outdated regulatory schemes to the Internet and instead start discussing how we can get smarter and better networks deployed faster to more people.
Non-Profit News
- San Francisco Data for Business and Economic Development
This new ease of access will lead to innovation in how residents interact with government, resulting in social and economic benefits for the City.
- Using Government Open Data to Help Start a Digital Business
"The logistics just didn't make sense, and luckily with Open Data we had an immediate solution that allowed our business to start going. The key is to get going as soon as possible. The longer you wait, you will never take action."
- U.S. Cluster Mapping Launchs New Website (Beta)
The U.S. Cluster Mapping Project is a national initiative that provides open data about regional clusters and economies to support U.S. business, innovation and policy.
- How Virtual Desktops are Saving the State of Iowa $6.5 Million a Year
The state has saved $6.5 million by closing the field offices and replacing them with a network of thin client PCs. When the savings is subtracted from the cost of the new technology, the overall expense for the state is $10,000, according to Bateman.
- Data Warehouses: Using New Technology to Improve Human Services Administration
The story of the Data Warehouse - and how it came about - is a prime example of how communities and governments can leverage new technology to improve human services administration.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Remembering Rural Philanthropy in an Urban-Focused Society
The shrinking rural development budget and the programs that don't have any connected dollars suggest a troubling vision for rural going forward.
Transportation
- The World's First Eye-Controlled Wheelchair
How technology is turning the ability to see into the ability to move.
- With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
It's basically a brand-new type of computer architecture that HP's engineers say will serve as a replacement for today's designs, with a new operating system, a different type of memory, and superfast data transfer.
- A Beautiful At-Home Medical Device That Cuts Out Trips to the Doctor
A new device called Cue could be the first iOS accessory that uses spit, boogers, and blood as the primary user interfaces.
- Bike Helmet Reads Mental State in Real-Time
In the Kickstarter video below, one rider says the information gives him "insight into where we need better bike lanes."
- First commercial drone flights over land are approved by FAA
Drones are often less expensive to operate than manned aircraft and easier to maneuver.
- Gothenburg offers free bikes for six months to get local population cycling
If the scheme should prove a success, it begs the question whether it could be made economical in the long term to roll it out on a larger scale -- leading to a fitter population and a greener environment.
- CEO Elon Musk opens up Tesla's patents to all
Musk said in a blog post that he is taking the action to encourage the auto industry to make more electric cars like Tesla's Model S.
- French Employees Get Paid to Bike to Work
French companies attempt to boost bike commutes by paying employees who cycle to work.
- Two-Way Streets Can Fix Declining Downtown Neighborhoods
America's multi-lane one-way streets are a disaster for neighborhoods.
- French Employees Get Paid to Bike to Work
French companies attempt to boost bike commutes by paying employees who cycle to work.
- Demand for Public Transportation to Trails, Rivers, Lakes Seen as Feasible
The Buses For Byways project seeks to determine ways to provide recreation access to those who desire or require public transportation services along the Top 10 Scenic Drives in the Northern Rockies.
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