"Out in this setting where there's fires it's the perfect solution. You could stack wood against it and burn it and it wouldn't go up in flames. I own a log home and after working with EverLogTM Systems, I wouldn't build with wood for myself, again. For the people who are considering a log home, I think it's the best way to go, it's forever," Hoyt Homes Owner, Wade Hoyt If you're building ...

"Sustaining the Best Place" An event of the lecture series "Will Work for Sustainability -- Creating Jobs through Sustainable Development." A panel discussion of Missoula Mayor John Engen's "Best Place Development Plan." http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/index.aspx?nid=1004 Free and open to the public. Wed Sept 8, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Gallagher Business Building, University of Montana *** Private ...

Would you like to have 5 minutes to present 20 slides rotating every 15 seconds to give an appreciative audience your thoughts on a subject near and dear to your heart? Do you have something that you'd like to talk about that will change people's lives? Ignite 3.0 is your chance. Here are some of the previous presentations and more about Ignite Missoula: http://ignitemissoula.com Submit ...

Commerce secretary visits state, praises small business booster A small business program piloted in Michigan last year is being rolled out nationwide, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Wednesday. The federal government launched Commerce Connect http://commerceconnect.gov/ in Plymouth to help small businesses cut through bureaucratic red tape and get hands-on help on issues, including ...

Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a long-time admirer of Seth Godin. He’s one of those “big thinkers” that has the added talent of being able to articulate high-level concepts in an immensely approachable way. That’s a very rare, and dare I say remarkable intersection of abilities.Seth Godin on Startups The following is a list of short, pithy insights that I’ve been collecting from Seth’s ...

The data storage unit that failed in a warehouse outside of Richmond last week, wreaking havoc in the computer networks of a number of Virginia agencies for more than a week, is a ubiquitous bit of technology used by virtually every major company and government in the country. By Rosalind S. Helderman and Anita Kumar Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn ... 106480.html *** State ...

Yes, it is true that plans are stories and stories drive plans, but that’s not stories as visions of the future and plans as managing and steering to make those visions true; we’re not talking about fairy tales. Make your planning real. Make it help your business. Make it help you control your destiny and manage better. by Tim Berry on September 2, 2010 Full Story: http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/09/t ... anning.html ...

TEA officials wouldn’t reveal details of the audit — other than to say that the state is contacting a random sampling of families to validate that they intended to home-school when they left middle or high school. By JENNIFER RADCLIFFE Full Story: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ ... 182835.html ...

It’s a big day for U.S. innovation strategy. The National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship is holding its first official meeting at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, today—and Xconomy has some exclusive details. The council, made up of 26 national leaders in business, technology, and academia, is charged with helping the Obama administration “develop a broader ...

States must create better ways of modernizing important computer systems before they become a liability. Steve Towns Full Story: http://www.governing.com/columns/tec ... ystems.html ...

Experienced, highly productive professional sought for challenging and rewarding position. Develop federal, state and foundation grant applications, appropriation requests and service proposals for regional economic development efforts. Develop site location proposals for business prospects in a variety of industries. Some project management. Requires excellent writing, grant research, ...

Lending a helping hand to student entrepreneurs is a vital part of resuscitating the economy, University of Michigan Mary Sue Coleman wrote in a column published Monday by Forbes. Coleman, recently appointed to serve as a co-chair of President Barack Obama's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, emphasized the importance of promoting entrepreneurial activities among students ...

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. Perhaps you have been considering the idea of incorporating your business, but haven’t exactly made the time in your daily calendar or you just aren’t sure when is the best time to do so. Nellie Akalp Full Story: http://mashable.com/2010/08/31/start ... ion-timing/ ...

Businesses are looking to students to help them learn. Some of the top U.S. business schools have been teaming up with companies, including Urban Outfitters Inc. and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., on programs in which students play the role of consultant—at little or no cost to the company. Students may work on identifying acquisition targets, assessing a market segment's viability ...

Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus issued a Public Service Announcement today inviting all Montanans to attend this year’s Montana Economic Development Summit http://www.montanaeconomicsummit.org/ on the Montana Tech campus in Butte September 13 and 14. Baucus was instrumental in summoning this year’s line-up of influential participants including, legendary investor and philanthropist ...

Web site listing 2,233 wishes from teachers gets a call asking what it needs to pay for them all. The next day, a check is sent. Out of the blue, in the middle of a recession, the phone rang. What would it cost, the caller asked the founder of http://www.DonorsChoose.org, to fund every California teacher's wish list posted on the Web site? The founder, Charles Best, thought perhaps the ...

Over and over America has looked to the West to work out the future. In this thinly populated terrain, experiments could still be attempted and national agendas advanced more swiftly than in the congested East, so the federal government has sought breakthroughs of every kind in the Mountain region. In the West, giant dams now generate electricity in new ways. Major science research laboratories ...

Blue Marble http://www.bluemarblebio.com CEO and co-founder, Kelly Ogilvie, will be a panel speaker at Senator Max Baucus’ Montana Economic Development Summit. Keynote speakers for the event include Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer, General Electric Co. Chairman Jeffrey Immelt, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Warren Buffet (as a remote guest), and Senator Max Baucus. The Summit welcomes ...