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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Jul 1, 2014 |
“For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.” —Bob Marshall
Please plan on attending one of the Main Street Montana Project and Montana Technology Innovation Partnership Rural Roundtable Events listed below. Montana's economy is on the move!
AAA Mountain West
Main Street Montana Project
- AAA Endorses Bipartisan Proposal to Increase Fuel Taxes for Transportation Improvements
Plan by U.S. Senators Murphy and Corker Would Lead to Better Roads, Bridges and Transit Systems
Montana Data Focused Business Cluster
- Main Street Montana Project Regional Meetings!, 8/19, Great Falls
Through this process, regional priorities will be identified, action plans will be formulated, and work teams will be formed.
- Main Street Montana Project Regional Meetings!, 8/11, Fairmont
Please join us to create a regional implementation plan for the Main Street Montana Project.
- Main Street Montana Project Regional Meetings!, 7/23, Polson
Share the unique successes and challenges in your region and help build a business plan for Montana by Montanans.
- Main Street Montana Project Regional Meetings!, 7/16, Billings
The Main Street Montana Project recognizes that each region of Montana has unique assets, strategies, challenges and characteristics.
- Main Street Montana Project Regional Meetings!, 7/15, Glendive
The goal of the Regional Meetings is to facilitate a work session that focuses on the Five Pillars, Goals and Objectives of the Main Street Montana Project Business Plan.
Montana Department of Commerce
- Shortage of cybersecurity workers is a problem that will solve itself, study says
Workers with the right skills are relatively hard to come by, and in a labor market dominated by the federal government and its contractors, they are in especially high demand.
- The Ostrich Theory of Data Security
What, us worry?
- The Internet Of Things Will Need Millions Of Developers By 2020 - It's all about data.
Ninety percent of the world's data was generated in the last two years alone, much of it by machines. Such machine-produced data dwarfs human-generated data.
- Montana's State Library Publishes Geographic Information Facebook Page
In addition to NRIS news (natural resource and water information), this Geographic Information Facebook page will provide the full complement of GIS news from the State Library including news about career opportunities, MDSI updates, data discovery and access tools, data archiving, and more.
Montana Technology Innovation Partnership
- Montana Film News - Montana Film Office - Now Hiring
"Wander" is a new short film that follows several flyfishermen on Montana's Bitterroot River. Using creative camera work, stunning close-ups of Montana trout, and an intense sight-fishing stalk for a finale.
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- Montana Technology Innovation Partnership Rural Roundtable Events, 07/31, Havre
Would you like to connect with the Commercial Market?
- Montana Technology Innovation Partnership Rural Roundtable Events, 08/01, Lewistown
Calling all Inventors and Researchers - Do you have an Innovative Product or Concept?
- Montana Technology Innovation Partnership Rural Roundtable Events, 07/28, Billings
Learn about protecting your idea and moving it forward during these Free Innovation Events
- Montana Technology Innovation Partnership Rural Roundtable Events, 07/29, Miles City
Calling all Inventors and Researchers - Do you have an Innovative Product or Concept?
- Montana Technology Innovation PartnershipRural Roundtable Events, 07/30, Wolf Point
Calling all Inventors and Researchers
Great Falls Development Authority
- Five Amazing Hikes in Glacier National Park
These hikes and climbs are neither for the faint of heart nor the ill prepared
- Voices of Montana Tourism - Changing Business of Summer Travel in U.S._BBER Economic Outlook
Numerous events across Montana are scheduled from July through September to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act.
Inteneo Systems
- GFDA Annual Meeting Of Investors 2014, 7/24, Great Falls, Montana
We invite you to join us for a luncheon discussing state, regional, and local economic development efforts.
Come Home Montana
- Your Doctor Knows You're Killing Yourself. The Data Brokers Told Her
Hospitals are starting to use detailed consumer data to create profiles on current and potential patients to identify those most likely to get sick, so the hospitals can intervene before they do.
Montana Business
- Montana Career Opportunities - Product Manager-Tax, Marketing Director, Marketing Research & Social Media Analyst, Controller, Senior Web Developer - Western CPE
These openings are a result of Company growth, internal promotions and changes being made to move the Company to the next level. These positions are at the Company's headquarters located in Bozeman, Montana.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Information Analyst - Northwestern Energy
The Information Analyst is a liaison between the business, technology and external business partners for project or process improvement requirements.
TEDx Events in Montana
- President Clinton Announces Millions of Additional Dollars for Montana Small Businesses
The program, Community Advantage Solutions, is a joint effort between Bank of America, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help increase access to affordable loans for small businesses across the United States.
- Study shows nonprofits have huge impact on the Gallatin Valley of Montana
Nonprofit organizations in the Gallatin Valley turned roughly $44 million in donations into more than $1 billion worth of goods and services
- DJYRO with Video Spinning! This will make you laugh. Incredible technology
Watch the DJYRO spin while the video in the middle of your phone holds still! This will amaze you!
The Missoula Economic Partnership
- TED Talk of the Week - Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen
Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening?
- Today's TED Talk - How cyber researchers stop terrorist crimes
How researchers use pattern recognition and reverse engineering (and pull a few all-nighters) to understand a chunk of binary code whose purpose and contents they don't know.
Careers
- Developer tour highlights opportunity in places we overlook - Missoula Economic Partnership
Developers who visit Missoula are always keen to see what's here. But just as importantly, they want to see what's not here.
Government
- 4 Speech Habits That Are Undermining Your Job Chances
You can have your interview materials rehearsed and ready to blow them away, but it's the sound of your voice that could be holding you back.
- Supply won't meet growing demand for primary care
The U.S. is expected to need 52,000 more primary care physicians by 2025.
Incubators and R&D
- Montana tops in fiscal prudence, study shows
Villa said Bullock made it clear in his first budget proposal that he wanted to leave a strong ending fund balance to weather a storm, not to spend more than the state takes in and address longer term liabilities like pensions, and that's exactly what occurred.
Other Economies
- McLaughlin Research Institute conference highlights ingenuity
One of her goals is to make Montana the best state in the region for science and technology.
Regional Business
- States poaching businesses from other states
The dynamic playing out here is one that is being embraced by Republican governors across the country who are aggressively courting businesses in higher-tax states such as Illinois, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri and New York -- all states with Democratic governors.
- Tax cuts in Kansas have cost the state money -- and job creation's been terrible
Job growth in Kansas has actually lagged behind the U.S. average, especially in the years following the first round of Brownback tax cuts in 2012.
Regional Economic Development
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation makes epic changes in health funding
"We have to make a seismic shift in the way we deal with health, and it has to come from the ground up."
- Russian Hackers Threaten Power Companies, Researchers Say
"These infections not only gave attackers a beachhead in the targeted organizations' networks, but also gave them the means to mount sabotage operations."
University of Montana & Montana State University Tech Transfer
- The Organic Entrepreneur Economy: The Entrepreneur and Community Infrastructures that Fix and Grow Economies...Immediately
A practical and proven guide to foster entrepreneurship and build a supportive community that will grow businesses, create jobs, and bolster the economy in a mere months.
Workforce Development
- University of Montana Research View Summer 2014
The University's most successful spinoff company lands $26 million investment
- Montana State University Research Tour, 7/14, Bozeman, Montana
On July 14th, 2014, MSU will be hosting tours of local companies utilizing university research and research facilities on or near campus.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Is the Workforce Ready for the Rise of Smart Machines?
"Job destruction will happen at a faster pace, with machine-driven job elimination overwhelming the market's ability to create valuable new ones."
MAPS : Media Arts in the Public Schools
- "No Kid Hungry - Share Our Strength Montana"
Montana No Kid Hungry connects kids to healthy food.
Montana Education Excellence
- MAPS appears in Emmy Magazine - "Big Dreams in Big Sky Country - Media Arts in the Public Schools - MAPS"
“MAPS’ mission is to help children find their voice, so when Variety or Emmy Magazine publish information about us they help us. Maybe some kid in a remote place will say, ‘Hey I can do that.’ ”
Community
- Teacher shortages at Indian schools in Montana are a chronic problem
Desperate for new teachers, Hays/Lodge Pole School District Superintendent Margaret Campbell has pulled out all the stops: A three-bedroom home to live in for $230 a month, with utilities paid; a $1,000 signing bonus; and even a dollar-for-dollar match for up to $300 on monthly student loan payments.
- Did ASMSU shakeup weaken student government at Montana State University?
"My last day of work after 11 years we were escorted out, like criminals," Lindner wrote. "I have never even been reprimanded at a job before, and we poured our heart and soul into that place."
Funding and Building your Business
- New grant announcements
- Butte Silver Bow County ranks high on NY Times list of places to live
Regionally, Beaverhead ranked 582 and Deer Lodge ranked 1,651. The top county in southwest Montana was Jefferson at 121.
Energy and Climate Change
- Do-good investing gets White House boost - and $1.5 billion in private pledges
The boundaries between private investors, nonprofit charities, and government agencies are getting blurrier - and that may be a good thing.
- Hey, founders -- before you name your startup something stupid, read this
Whether a company's naming journey is more mystical or data-backed, there are a number of factors to keep in mind and resources available at any step.
- Where Older Entrepreneurs Can Find Help
"When you are 67, you can't bet the ranch and expect to have time to make it back if something goes wrong," says Prof. Rogoff. "When you are 27, it's easier to take more risk."
Montana Biotech
- The world has 53.3 years of oil left
Despite the big boost in reserves over the past year, there appears to be much more oil potential in each shale play, with the Permian Basin really standing out.
- Giving Up Fossil Fuels to Save the Climate: The $28 Trillion Writedown
"There is no doubt that if we burned all the fossil fuel that's in the ground right now, that the planet's going to get too hot and the consequences could be dire." President Obama
Government Technology
- Study Ranks Life Sciences Industry Clusters
According to the report writers, clusters with a large presence of small startups, mid-tier biotech companies and specialty companies flourished in 2013.
Non-Profit News
- Oregon website breach: State officials failed to patch 'high risk' software problem
The hackers who breached the Oregon Secretary of State's website in February probably exploited software that cybersecurity websites had identified as vulnerable but that state IT officials had not patched, documents and information obtained by The Oregonian show.
- Montana: Xerox in breach of Medicaid software contract
Terminating the contract and going after damages is not the state's goal, according to Ron Baldwin, the state's chief information officer.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- Reach, Inc. celebrates 40 years of growth, innovation and community in Bozeman, Montana
In 1974, some of those parents on a shoestring budget created Reach, Inc. to help their adult children with disabilities find a place in the world.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Copper mine exploration near Smith River may resume
"Save Our Smith" Montana's famed Smith River is under threat from a proposed copper mine.
- Q&A: Scientist Ronald Kaplan, on the future of voice technology
The expectation that people will have for these things is going to really move the technology forward.
- FDA approves inhaled form of insulin
"Today's approval broadens the options available for delivering mealtime insulin in the overall management of patients with diabetes who require it to control blood sugar levels,"
- IBM's Watson Is Now Inventing Recipes in Bon Appetit Project
The app, called Chef Watson with Bon Appetit, will be limited to invited users at the start, though Mr. Rapoport said it will "hopefully go live to the general public at some point down the road."
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