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| MATR Newsletter - Fri Aug 15, 2014 |
Work as if it was your first day. Forgive as soon as possible. Love without boundaries. Laugh without control and never stop smiling.
Main Street Montana Project Regional Meetings!, 8/19, Great Falls http://www.matr.net/ev ... =5115 --- Main Street Montana Project Regional Meetings!, 8/20, Glendive http://www.matr.net/ev ... =5119
Montana Data Focused Business Cluster
iConnect Montana
- Fighting Wildfires with Big Data
What if there were a better way to monitor, predict, and fight wildfires
- Symantec Executives Visit UM to Observe Big Data Course
The course, titled eDiscovery Law and Practice, teaches students to search massive sets of data for evidence and decide how to proceed with findings based on both law and business practices.
Great Falls Development Authority
- iConnect Professional Services
iConnect Montana provides neutral network connectivity and data center services for telecommunications, e-commerce and Internet-based businesses at environmentally benign locations throughout Montana.
Come Home Montana
- Butte whiskey maker shares her social media tips
"My advice to you is to pick one format, be authentic and consistent in the messages you post and develop the skills you need to use the social media well," McKee said. "It's easy to be overwhelmed with the choices. Learn to use one first and then move to the next."
Montana Business
- Cascade County, Montana has more jobs than jobless
Why isn't everyone working?
Montana Economic Development
- Headframe Spirits to build the largest distillery west of the Mississippi River in Butte, Montana
It could mean 50 jobs for Butte.
- Belgrade, Montana's netDuty Online duty calendar application for fire, police and EMS agencies.
netDuty focuses on getting your police, EMS or fire shift schedule online.
- Creative Boom at Acutech - Columbia Falls manufacturing company working with inventors and companies to create innovative products
"We have combined a lot of machinery and talent under one roof," Grommet said. "We can manufacture just about anything in metals."
Careers
- RCEDA receives grants for three rural projects
"We enjoy doing work here and we couldn't do it if you didn't have an organization like Julie Foster and her staff," said Preite. "There's not a lot of money in this program, but Julie wrote three grants and we are funding all three of them. This represents about 35 percent of all the money we have in Montana, so go Julie!"
- Panel takes softer stand on Butte Local Development Corp.
"I would suggest putting the infighting aside and get the damn job done."
Next Generation Broadband in Missoula
- Montana Career Information System offers free career planning tool
The online Montana Career Information System https://mtcis.intocareers.org/materials/portal/home.html has tools and tips for everyone from grade-school students to Montana seniors everything from exploring career paths to looking for a new job.
Rural Communities
- FFC Announces Funding for Rural Broadband Experiments, NTIA Releases Reports on Impact of Broadband Grants
Grants will be made to support rural broadband experiments to explore how to structure the Phase II of the Connect American Fund's competitive bidding process in price cap areas and to gather information about interest in deploying next generation networks in high-cost areas.
Government
- Boomers: Moving Further Out and Away
The data indicates that boomers are leaving the major metropolitan areas to move to smaller cities or even to rural areas.
Idaho Business
- Missoula water costs among highest in state
The results have city officials saying that there are some startling results that suggest it would be better for the city to take over Mountain Water Company.
Incubators and R&D
- Idaho gives state workers premium health coverage
Pew project director Maria Schiff said health insurance costs have become a leading budget driver for all states, but until recently, little has been known about how they compare with one another and with the private sector.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Laser detects distant bombs with 99% accuracy
New laser technology makes it possible to identify explosives, biological agents, and hazardous chemicals from a half mile away.
Montana Education Excellence
- Google Wants to Save Our Schools--And Hook a New Generation of Users
The old "dog ate my homework excuse" is about to become a thing of the past. And kids will have Google to thank.
Community
- Montana State University Freshman Convocation 2014 - Free And Open To The Public, 8/25, Bozeman, Montana
Imagine that you were prevented "by law" from getting an education. What would you do?
Funding and Building your Business
- Missoula buses will be 'zero fare' beginning Jan. 5
"Zero-fare is an opportunity for Mountain Line to further improve the quality of life in Missoula, which will truly benefit us all."
Energy and Climate Change
- Every Small Business Founder Needs An Advisor
Before you are ready for an advisor, you must know yourself.
- 8 Questions You Should Ask a Key Employee Before They Quit
This is your last chance to have an honest, frank discussion with your employee before they leave.
- Systems to manage the wealth of knowledge inside companies can help junior staff get a leg up in career advancement.
Knowledge management systems help connect workers to knowledge and other people regardless of physical distance.
- Montana Community Development Corp. receives $1M for rural entrepreneurs
The funds are meant for smaller and newer businesses that often can't qualify for commercial financing, or can't get enough financing to meet their growing needs.
- Apple, Google, VCs invest in health technology
Hoping to capitalize on the power of mobile computing, artificial intelligence and new analytics software -- as well as new laws and the sense that a bloated health care industry is ripe for new efficiencies -- venture capital firms and big tech companies are pouring vast sums into new medical technology.
Government Technology
- Downtown Berkeley Getting the Permeable Pavement Treatment
The new paving will decrease the load on the city's storm drain system when it rains, while also filtering the runoff into the bay and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by requiring less maintenance.
- Waste Less, Pollute Less: Using Urban Water Conservation to Advance Clean Water Act Compliance
Metropolitan areas in many parts of the country are facing serious water supply challenges in an era of chronic water scarcity, increased uncertainty in future water availability, and growing competition for water resources.
- Water warning - Missoula should be careful not to waste so much
Southwestern droughts are moving north.
- Wyoming Closing Data Centers, Shifting To The Cloud
What's now driving government IT decision-making in Wyoming and other states is a desire to move resources to dynamic cloud-based services, both public and private.
- Butte-Silver Bow Information Technology Advisory Committee launches 8/14
The committee is expected to meet twice a month until an IT Department is formed and initial tasks are completed, and includes individuals from the local community who have experience in all the varied aspects of information technology implementation, project management, and operations.
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