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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Aug 25, 2015 |
Don't worry about getting old. Worry about thinking old.
Why Asia Matters To Montana - Global Trade, Business And Marketing, 8/28, Bozeman http://www.matr.net/ev ... =5567 --- Broad Agenda (Including Broadband Services) For Economic Affairs Meeting, 8/31- 9/1, Helena, Montana http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
2014 Montana Politics & 2015 Legislature
Early Edge Montana
- MISSOULIAN EDITORIAL: Legislative branch is equal to executive
Apparently, the members of an interim legislative committee could use a basic refresher on the three branches of government. It seems they are considering ways of wielding more legislative power over the executive branch.
Kalispell Chamber of Commerce
- Little kids with big vocabularies start school ready to learn
The study's findings underscore the importance of early intervention.
Main Street Montana Project
- Business And Community Development Projects Featured At Kalispell Chamber's August 26 Luncheon
New business and community development projects are front and center at the Kalispell Chamber's August luncheon. Included in the program are major real estate and business projects both in the planning stages and under construction in the Flathead.
Montana Data Focused Business Cluster
- Main Street Montana Project Peer-to Peer Symposium - Workforce, 10/11-12, Bozeman, Montana
SPACE IS LIMITED REGISTER NOW!
Northwestern Energy
- Marketing analytics forum coming to Missoula
A team of marketing faculty at UM, in conjunction with an external advisory board, has planned and organized the event.
Great Falls Development Authority
- Northwestern Energy 'looking forward' to Uptown parking garage in Butte
Rowe said, "one view was we ought to just put everybody together on the Flats. But we're such a big part of Uptown, and all of us love being part of Uptown, so we made the decision to stay here and design a building." Rowe can't keep the excitement out of his voice as he discusses the new building.
Come Home Montana
- EPA awards Great Falls Development Authority $500,000 more for cleanup projects
"We're very excited at the news," GFDA President Brett Doney said. "We have some large, very significant cleanup sites we've been looking at and this grant could allow us to move forward on two or more projects."
Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana
- Montana Career Opportunity - Cisco Network Engineer - Corporate Technology Group
Our mission is to provide end-to-end business solutions and services that enable our clients to create and sustain a competitive advantage which improves their business.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Business Analyst II, Claims Analyst, Centene Corp. - Great Falls
Centene's most important assets are its employees. Are you ready to join a growing company that invests in its employees?
- Montana Career Opportunity - eBusiness Information Analyst - Northwestern Energy
We encourage employees to find opportunities to use their leadership skills to contribute to and strengthen the organization.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Director of Compliance Services - LMG Security
LMG Security is a security consulting, research and education firm based in Montana. We are authors, teachers, speakers and leaders in the information security industry.
- Repotting (to Montana) - One Year Later
Repotting demands intentionality and a degree of self-awareness that ensures that life aligns with mission and that location is an active choice and not a by product of happenstance.
Montana Business
- Montana's Entrepreneurial Zeal
According to the 2015 Kauffman Index, Montana ranks as the state with the highest level of startup activity--the third straight year it has topped the rankings. However, how sustainable is its recent entrepreneurial success?
Montana Economic Development
- Belgrade food company Root Cellar Foods to be featured in online documentary
"Farmers bring in their produce and then we either wash it, we dice it, we kind of do anything our customers want," said Angell.
- ADF paint shop earns top certification, could land jobs in Great Falls, Montana
"ADF invests in highly trained employees, using state-of-the-art coating techniques," he said. "We are an industry leader in controlling costs, meeting deadlines and delivering the best products and services in the industry."
- Montana economist Barbara Wagner: Sexism not only factor in wage gap
They sent companies fake resumes with male and female names and similar work experience. They found men received more job offers and higher starting salary offers, but both male and female managers showed similar bias in offering lower pay to women.
TEDx Events in Montana
- MEDA (Montana Economic Developers Association) Infrastructure Town Hall Meeting, 10/13, Billings
Join this free town hall meeting to discover the key elements of a sustainable infrastructure program for Montana and identify immediate next steps to fund Montana's infrastructure needs.
- MEDA 2015 Fall Conference Oct 13 - 15, 10/13, Billings
Get ready for a "remarkable" conference, hosted by Big Sky EDA, in Billings.
Careers
- Today's TED Talk - Jim Al-Khalili: How quantum biology might explain life's biggest questions
Jim Al-Khalili rounds up the extremely new, extremely strange world of quantum biology, where something Einstein once called "spooky action at a distance" helps birds navigate, and quantum effects might explain the origin of life itself.
Next Generation Broadband in Montana
- Time in the bank: A Stanford plan to save doctors from burnout
In exchange for mentoring and committee work, doctors on the university faculty can receive home-delivered meals, babysitting, handyman services and more -- all in an effort to improve work-life balance.
- Why Introverts Make Great Entrepreneurs
Conventional wisdom says you need to be an extrovert to start a successful business. That's wrong for all sorts of reasons.
- Robots Will Steal Our Jobs, But They'll Give Us New Ones
"This is the evolution of the repair person. It's harder to fix a robot than it is to fix a vending machine."
- orkplace Chatter Social skills increasingly tied to career success, researcher says
What does it take to get ahead in today's job market? While it might seem like specialized technical skills are the only way to compete in an increasingly difficult economy, that's not the case. To really get ahead, what a worker needs is social skills.
- I Joined Google At 19. Here's What I Learned
I got thrown in at the deep end from my first day at Google, and it's made me a better entrepreneur.
- 7 Traits Of Great Mentors
How do you tell whether a successful person is mentor material, or just someone to admire from afar?
- Five Ways To Read Someone's Mind
While telepathy sounds like a superpower, reading someone's mind is actually a skill that can be learned.
City Club Missoula
- Internet in Idaho: Big fiber-optic plans in little Ammon ...an open-access fiber network unlike any in the world.
Now Patterson has created a fiber network that experts say could become a model for future municipal networks throughout the country.
- Missouri electrical co-op has turned part of central Missouri into its own Internet hotspot.
In one example around the Lake of the Ozarks, a power cooperative is providing blistering speeds to homes and business.
Government
- City Club Missoula Presents: Invest In Our Schools, 9/14, Missoula
It’s time to fix all of our schools – to invest in our kids, Missoula and our future. It’s the responsible thing to do
Idaho Business
- Montana Governor's Office of Community Service! survey - take it today!
This opportunity to make a more effective state government here in Montana is limited, so please complete the survey by Friday, September 11! Thank you!
Oregon Economic Development
- Treasure Valley bandwidth: a mixed bag
First, the good news: Most companies can get top-notch data connections in the Treasure Valley, as long as they're in an urban area.
Regional Economic Development
- Greater Portland Inc - Website ReLaunch
In an effort to improve regional competitiveness, GPI has made many tactical updates to the site.
Utah Business
- Long Haul: The Crucial Link Between Freight and Economic Development
Traditionally, transportation planning efforts have focused on moving people. The emerging field of freight mobility planning puts goods and commodities in the spotlight.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Salt Lake City is earning a new title: 'Wall Street of the West'
The Utah economy is larger, stronger and more diversified, thanks to the growth in this important industry.
Education
- Three Teacher-Tested Ways to Encourage Your Students to Follow Current Events This School Year
Just as we have every summer since 2010, we found that offering students free choice to read whatever they liked best resulted in a surprising breadth of topics.
- Three Teacher-Tested Ways to Encourage Your Students to Follow Current Events This School Year
Just as we have every summer since 2010, we found that offering students free choice to read whatever they liked best resulted in a surprising breadth of topics.
- Digital Tools for Mountain Girls to Attend College
The goal is to prepare the girls for success in high school and help them get ready to apply to and attend college.
Missoula Schools Excellence
- Fafsa Follies: To Gain a Student, Eliminate a Form
Many smart students forgo college in the mistaken belief that they cannot afford it. The financial aid system, which is intended to increase opportunities for low-income students, is largely to blame.
- Should You Earn Your College Degree Overseas?
A growing number of Americans are going overseas for their degrees. Should you?
Montana Education Excellence
- Writing Coaches Of Missoula Training, 9/24 And 9/30, Missoula, Montana
Writing Coaches of Missoula is a community-based organization that provides one-on-one assistance on classroom writing assignments to students in the Missoula County Public Schools.
Montana Education/Business Partnerships
- Montana School Funding Committee Seeks Your Input - Please take this survey for Montana's future leaders
"This will allow people to give the commission some direction about where to put our effort," Sen. Tom Facey, D-Missoula, said.
- MSU strives to raise 50 percent graduation rate
"When you're spending all that money for out-of-state and you have a student who has proven himself academically, do you send him to a place where there is a risk of not graduating?"
- Five Great Falls schools where all students are eligible to participate in the breakfast-lunch program at no charge
"It's been very successful, whether the students eat for free or pay," Spellman said. "We make sure they aren't hungry. Fewer are sick. We have less absence and they pay more attention. And if parents don't want the kids to participate, they can send a snack so they can participate."
- Montana State University professors, Sarah Codd and Julia Hobson Haggerty receive national recognition as inspiring women in STEM
The award is presented to 100 women nationally whose work and achievements not only encourage others in their fields, but also inspire a new generation of young women to consider careers in STEM.
- Governor Bullock to Montana Students: "Take Advantage of all of the Amazing Opportunities Available in Your Classrooms"
The video helps to kick-off Bullock's "College and Career Ready" back to school tour. Next week, Bullock, along with Lt. Gov. Angela McLean and Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, will visit schools to highlight programs in Montana public schools that focus on career skills as well as college readiness.
Funding and Building your Business
- Centene donates $80,000 to retain GFC MSU vets program
"The program helps connect veterans with other nontraditional students and makes them feel at home here,"
- Montana Backs Hyperspectral Imaging Research
Montana State University researchers aim to develop new technology for Resonon Inc. http://www.resonon.com/ , a manufacturer of machine vision and other imaging systems used in automated sorting and inspection. Both the company and the university are located in Bozeman.
Energy and Climate Change
- Make Sure You're Asking These 9 Interview Questions
From interesting challenges to hypothetical situations, here are the questions nine companies say you should be asking to identify the right candidate.
- Pam Bucy, Montana Labor and Industry commissioner: Hiring more women brings higher returns
Companies that hire more diversity, including women, achieve between 24 and 25 percent higher returns on investment.
Connectivity & Communications
- How small farmers are adapting to climate change
Everyone must play a role in helping small farmers adapt to climate change, and chefs are uniquely positioned to partner with the farmers who grow the ingredients for their meals. Recipes for Change, a campaign of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), features ingredients that are under threat from climatic changes.
- Extreme weather to cause extreme food shortages, task force finds
With a "Godzilla" of an El Nino event predicted for this coming winter season in the U.S., an extreme weather case study on food supplies could be on the horizon.
- Climate change to add hassles to trout fishing
As a result of projected warming, driving distance to go fishing for wild brook trout was predicted to increase, on average, by almost 164 miles over the next 70 to 80 years."
- U.S. Unveils Measures to Encourage Solar Power Use
For Mr. Obama, the solar measures and speech on Monday are part of an increasingly intense effort to highlight the dangers of climate change and implement policies to address them.
- How they build those big windmills. Pretty fascinating
How many truckloads to build one windmill?
- Mysterious blue clouds may portend disaster
Tony Phillips, who tracks clouds for SpaceWeather.com, says "the jury is still out" on the global-warming connection, but notes that the greenhouse gas methane "favor[s] the formation of NLCs at very high altitudes" by producing water that helps form the clouds.
Government Technology
- Broad Agenda (Including Broadband Services) For Economic Affairs Meeting, 8/31- 9/1, Helena, Montana
The interim legislative committee that addresses industries of all types, as well as economic development and employment issues
- Wisconsin Gives Millions to Broadband Providers for Rural Expansion
Without government assistance, broadband providers say, they couldn't afford to extend the service to sparsely populated areas because there aren't enough customers to justify the cost.
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- Data Analytics Drives Cities to Re-Think How They Protect Health, Safety
Cities are moving toward a regulatory regime that, rather than striving to protect incumbents from competition, attempts to do a better job of protecting health and safety -- and at lower costs to taxpayers.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- The Montana Book Festival, coming up in September, is currently seeking donations through Kickstarter.
Help support one of Missoula's best cultural festivals and enjoy literature in all its forms from Western Montana and beyond.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Tech Tips: Stuff you didn't know you could do on Facebook
Many of these tips and tricks aren't well known, even to veterans of the 1.5 billion-strong people-connector and time-waster.
- Firefox is about to work a lot more like Chrome
The changes are broadly designed to make Firefox more secure and stable, but they also have the downside of making it less customizable and potentially more of a resource hog.
- MIT's Multi-Material 3-D Printer Isn't Crazy-Expensive
Don't let the fact they aren't a living room staple suggest the technology isn't progressing in invigorating ways.
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