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| MATR Newsletter - Fri Aug 22, 2014 |
"Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life" Naguib Mahfouz
Kalispell Chamber of Commerce
Great Falls Development Authority
- Upcoming Labor Day weekend air show expected to boost Kalispell economy
Summer is always the busiest season for the Flathead Valley, but the folks at the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce - and local business leaders - hope that the Labor Day weekend will be even busier when the planes come to town.
TicketRiver.com
- GFDA Top 14, 8/17/14
Here's the GFDA Top 14 for this week, celebrating great things happening to move Great Falls Forward!
Inteneo Systems
- How social logins helped boost TicketPrinting.com's revenue
Enabling event organizers to sign into the ticket printing company's sites using their Facebook credentials has led to 30% more buyers logging in.
Come Home Montana
- Data Silos Cause Billion-Dollar Error Which Results in Walgreen CFO Departure
Walgreen officials have sited the fact that company group writing contracts wasn't communicating with the finance group as a prime reason for the error.
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Missoula makes Outside magazine's list of 'Greatest Places to Live in America'
"Today, downtown Missoula is an incredibly vibrant place," he writes. "This took the work of people who really cared and were willing to spend the money to make these things happen."
- Montana Career Opportunity - Network Administrator - Glacier Bancorp
5+ yrs experience, Degree in computer science or equivalent combination of education & experience.
Careers
- Networking Resources for Far-Flung Entrepreneurs
n a real and serious way, where do entrepreneurs and innovators hook up to exchange ideas and make connections? I'm in Idaho Falls, Idaho, so I'm looking for websites or U.S. cities.
Government
- How to Solve Google's Crazy Open-Ended Interview Questions
For over a decade, when Google conducted job interviews, they'd ask their applicants questions that have no answers.
- The White House Gives Up on Making Coders Dress Like Adults
The video is the White House's best effort at saying it's going to get real and hire people based on what they can do, not how they dress for work.
Workforce Development
- How to Get Public Workers to Care About Their Jobs
It's about a whole lot more than free pizza, casual Fridays and the boss's open-door policy.
Montana Education Excellence
- It's Not a Skills Gap: U.S. Workers Are Overqualified, Undertrained
How can there be so many unemployed people in the face of so many job openings?
Funding and Building your Business
- Montana Ranked #1 For Overall Best Colleges In America
I'm proud that our state is being recogniz ed for the incredible work our colleges and universities do to prepare the leaders of the future." Governor Steve Bullock
- Montana sees ACT score drop as every high school graduate takes exam
Montana's score fell on the ACT college entrance exam this year, but that's because for the first time every high school graduate took the test.
Energy and Climate Change
- 12 Tips for Creating Your Startup's Board of Advisors
Entrepreneurs share advice about what is most important when choosing a board.
- How to Present to a Small Audience
What else should you bring with you?
Connectivity & Communications
- Water utilities are huge energy hogs. - Water Utilities Are Starting to Take Their Own Conservation Advice
"If we turn every enriched-water facility in the United States into a power plant, it would become one of the largest sectors of clean energy that, at the moment, is relatively untapped."
- Clear material on windows harvests solar energy
A new type of "transparent" solar concentrator can be used on windows or mobile devices to harvest solar energy without obscuring the view.
- Transatomic Power's innovative nuclear reactors turn nuclear waste into a safe, clean, and scalable source of electricity.
Welcome to tomorrow.
- Siluria turns natural gas into gasoline for $1 per gallon
The oil industry has taken notice. Siluria reported Wednesday that its latest, $30 million fundraising round was led by Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company.
- GPS devices find huge water loss in western US
About 63 trillion gallons of water have been lost to drought in the western United States, enough to blanket the region with 4 inches of water, according to a study published Thursday.
Government Technology
- Tribal Libraries Lack Broadband Access
The report shows that tribal libraries are providing critical services in their communities but that they lag behind the nation as a whole. And they aren't doing as well, generally, as other rural public libraries overall.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- Better Governing Through Data
Government bureaucracies, as opposed to casual friendships, are seldom in danger from too much information. That is why a new initiative by the New York City comptroller, Scott Stringer, to use copious amounts of data to save money and solve problems, makes such intuitive sense.
- Q&A: The Basics of Big Data for Government
What advice would you provide to a newly elected mayor and would you have different suggestions for small, mid-sized or large cities?
- Munirent Brings the Sharing Economy to Government
A new service could bring the benefits of the sharing economy to public works departments around the nation.
- Bloomberg Invests $45 Million In Civic Innovation
More than 80 cities will have a chance to tap into the talent and coffers of Michael Bloomberg's philanthrophic organization.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Parents to their children: Ignore my call no more or I'll lock your phone.
If your children ignore your repeated calls and text messages to reach them, you simply lock their phones until they call you back.
- 5 apps that make you say 'wow'
I've created list of the latest apps that use your smartphone or tablet in a way you can hardly believe.
Lewis and Clark Legacy
- This Startup Could Turn Your iPhone Into a Tiny Disease-Detecting Lab
Backed by celebrity investor Mark Cuban, the Philadelphia startup is developing a piece of hardware that attaches to an iPhone and harnesses the device's computing power and built-in camera to test people for diseases and run other biological diagnostics in almost any setting.
- Startups Battle to Make Star Trek's Comms Badge a Reality
The idea is to create a new and more convenient form of communication for event planners, kitchen workers, and others who need instant access to colleagues while on the job.
- Researchers reverse autism symptoms in mice by paring extra synapses
That suggests the disease could one day be treated in teenagers and adults, "though there is a lot of work to be done."
- Gov. Bullock gets update on Main Street Montana program
The Main Street Montana Project is an economic growth plan that was first unveiled in April. It's taking advantage of a $25 million federal grant designed to help Montana's two-year colleges meet the needs of Montana's growing industries
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