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| MATR Newsletter - Tue Apr 8, 2008 |
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." -- James Branch Cabell
2009 Montana Legislature
Idaho National Laboratory
- Information about 2009 Montana Legislation Now Available Online
Lawmakers have already asked their staff to draft about 80 bills for consideration next year.
Montana World Trade Center
- Department of Homeland Security sponsoring international cybersecurity workshop at Idaho National Laboratory
Approximately 40 researchers from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States are learning about new technologies and methods for enhancing the security of infrastructure network and process control systems.
Boomtown Institute
- Montana World Trade Center E-News April 4, 2008
Rehberg to Lead Montana Trade Mission to Canada Montana Businesses Invited to Join Rehberg, MWTC
- Small businesses discover a world of opportunity in exports
In a powerful trend that is reshaping the economic landscape, a rising wave of U.S. small businesses and start-ups are going cross-border and selling hundreds of billions of dollars in goods and services to Asia, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Africa.
City Club Missoula
- The Agurban from Boomtown Institute - Disturbing News on Graduation Rates
Eighty-percent of inmates are high school dropouts in the United States.
MSU Leadership Institute
- City Club Missoula - “Ethical Implications Of The Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Policies”, 4/15, Missoula
Dr. John Stone, Dr. Tom Roberts and Dr. Joe Knapp will speak on the “ethical implications of the presidential candidates’ health care policies.” This forum is co-sponsored by the UM Center for Ethics and the Institute of Medicine and Humanities.
Come Home Montana
- Balance Woman of the Year - MSU Leadership Institute's Carmen McSpadden - Inspiring the next generation to become stellar leaders
“Carmen is so innovative ... She has a great ability to bring people together. The Montana State University Leadership Institute wouldn’t have come about without Carmen’s innovation and hard work.”
Come Home Washington
- Semitool of Kalispell, Montana offers $10,000, free education and a job to innovative Canadian students. 75 Machinist Positions Open
Bruce Severson, owner of Semitool, a manufacturing company in Kalispell, Mont., has 75 machinist positions to fill.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Information Technology Manager - Triangle Communications
Will act as key member of IT team to define, develop & implement IT policies & best practices. Responsible for acquisition, installation & maintenance of LAN / WAN.
- Exodus from Montana's eastern counties
There are simply not enough jobs and opportunities to go around in such a remote area.
- Kalispell Job Extravaganza May Include 75 Businesses, 4/10, Kalispell, MT
Billed as the biggest employment event in the valley, it’s expected to draw at least 1,500 job seekers.
Leadership Montana
- Pacific Northwest biotechs search for savvy CEOs
If the right person is unwilling to relocate to the Puget Sound area, Fate's lead investor says, the stem-cell research company could end up moving.
Montana Business
- Aiming higher
Workshop teaches Montana high school students to become better leaders, citizens
Montana Economic Development
- Mental health lure paying returns: About a dozen professionals in Missoula County seek loan forgiveness
"That will help retain those professionals in Missoula County," he said. "It is not a magic bullet. It is another tool for a community to lure mental health professionals."
Regional Economic Development
- 2008 New Frontiers Conference: Propelling Montana Research, 6/2, Bozeman, Montana
You are cordially invited to attend the 2008 New Frontiers Conference: Propelling Montana Research June 2 in Bozeman, MT. Join me as I welcome university researchers, entrepreneurs, investors and national corporations in this one day showcase of Montana Research.
- National Geographic map highlights Columbia Falls. Crown of the Continent Ecosystem
Columbia Falls is well represented in a new National Geographic Geotourism Map of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem.
- Great Northern Development Corporation - April 2008 Newsletter
Great Northern Development Corporation is pleased to announce that Glasgow, Montana has been selected as the 2008 SBA Small Business Community of the Year.
- Montana Department of Commerce Director to Present Over $2.5 Million in Grants to Economic Development Projects in Eastern Montana
Three Day Tour to Big Timber, Columbus, Glendive, Wolf Point & Havre
Careers
- A Practitioner’s Guide for Effective Alignment of Regional Development and Higher Education
Higher education must now become a full partner in formulating and implementing regional competitiveness strategies.
Funding and Building your Business
- "The Bridge" - Supporting People with Disabilities to Enforce Their Civil Rights
“Without our voices, we have no choices!”
Incubators and R&D
- Start-up Speed Dating is back in Idaho!!
Start-up Speed Dating will give you the opportunity to practice and refine your pitch in front of a select group of Investors, other experienced CEO’s and Entrepreneurs. All who apply will be invited to a special tips and tricks "pitch" workshop on May 1.
Idaho Business
- A Broken Pipeline? Flat Funding of the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk.
I hate to think of all the lost opportunities for scientific progress that are going unfunded, and the loss of economic competitiveness that will accrue if these funding trends continue.”
- U. of I. getting latest in cool from Big Blue (IBM)
According to the National Science Foundation, which is providing the $208 million for the system, Blue Waters will be 500 times more powerful than typical supercomputers currently in use.
Washington State Business
- Boise-based Intermountain Gas tries to find a buyer
Glynn said the decision to seek a buyer for the privately held Boise utility reflects the company's belief that it ultimately will have to participate in the consolidation of small natural gas distributors into larger companies.
Government
- OrbitCom, OneEighty chief split. Sioux Falls concern fires CEO Greg Green, who plans to sue
“They didn’t give me any reason” for the termination, other than to say that they wanted to go in a different direction, Green says. “Quite frankly, we hadn’t even started the direction.”
- Lee & Hayes riding the wave in intellectual property legal niche
“This is a new phenomenon for companies, in terms of the procurement and management of global IP portfolios,” Lee says. “When we understand the technology, law, and business aspects of IP, we can provide the best service to our clients.”
- Software developer debuts alarm product for networks - Pentad Systems
With the software, employees can trigger an emergency alarm with a mouse click or a couple of key strokes, alerting all other users of the same computer network of the nature and exact location of the emergency—silently or with a sound.
Connectivity & Communications
- Telework Helps Virginia and Arizona Recruit and Retain Employees
For employers, telework offers a strategy for recruiting and retaining talent. Telework expands the potential talent pool to include workers who don't live near a government facility. "It's really chasing the knowledge and the capabilities, rather than that plus the need to have somebody relocate,"
Energy
- Virginia is the first to mandate that public schools offer Internet safety classes for all grade levels.
Under mounting pressure, the social-networking site MySpace agreed with 49 states to create a task force to devise ways to protect youngsters from online predators and bullies. Texas opted out because of concern that the program lacks a way to verify users' ages.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Theories masquerade as science - Senator Jim Shockley's thoughts on global warming
My points are that while the Earth is clearly warming, the reason, or more likely reasons, are still in doubt, and the CO2 advocates simply lack the sophistication to deal with the problem if their theory is valid. Most importantly, I am offended by propaganda masquerading as science.
Government Technology
- Calling the future: Cell phone pioneer sees 'another revolution'
"We're just at an immature stage in the growth of the industry."
Transportation
- Montana must pay almost $1MM for unlicensed software
Since December 2005, Dick Clark has been the state's chief information officer in the Department of Administration, whose Information Services Technology Division oversees the state's mainframe computer and computer systems.
- Direct flights from Bozeman to Los Angeles to begin in June
Sprenger attributed the expanded service to efforts by Big Sky businesses to expand service to and from California and United Express’s success with its San Francisco route.
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