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"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." -- Winston Churchill
I dare you not to smile - Your feel good minutes for the day. http://www.matr.net/ar ... .html
Kalispell Chamber of Commerce
Northwestern Energy
- Small Business Saturday kicks off Saturday, Nov. 29. - Flathead Valley's 2014 Small Business Saturday full of activities for holiday shoppers.
For the Kalispell community, all participating small businesses will be featured in the Kalispell Chamber's Small Business Saturday map, published in the November 26 edition of the Flathead Beacon.
Great Falls Development Authority
- Billings Resident Wins TV in Northwestern Energy-Saving Campaign
The program was aimed at helping NorthWestern customers improve their energy awareness and providing information designed to help them reduce energy consumption.
TechLink
- Great Falls Development Authority Top 17 for 11/23/14
Here's the GFDA Top 17 for this week, celebrating great things happening to move Great Falls Forward!
Inteneo Systems
- Lunch & Learn: How To Fund Your Startup With The Federal SBIR Program, 12/03, Bozeman
Bring your lunch and learn how you can tap into the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to fund your small, tech-based startup.
Come Home Montana
- Success is in Your Little Data - The Ability of Good People to Use Good Data to Make Good Decisions.
The digital economy is all about capturing, analyzing, and using information to serve customers. Most companies can significantly improve their business performance simply by focusing on how operating data can inform day-to-day decision making.
Montana Business
- Missoula is #8 in Livability's Top 100 Best Places to Live
Home to the University of Montana, Missoula's breweries, coffee houses, cafes and restaurants create a unique, cool vibe.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Search Marketing Manager - Adventure Life
The Search Marketing Manager is responsible for coordinating and implementing SEO, SEM and SMO strategies for Adventure Life.
Montana Economic Development
- The story of Great Harvest Bread Company's beginnings likely resonates with the many Montanans who arrived in Big Sky Country looking for an adventure, and stayed for a lifetime.
Montana has always felt like home to me." - Mike Ferretti, CEO Great Harvest Bread Co
- Great Harvest Fundraiser Days in Dillon Donate 100% of Proceeds to Local Charities
The Dillon bakery serves as a model for Great Harvest stores nationwide, and new owners come to Dillon to understand the intricacies of what it takes to own and operate a successful store.
TEDx Events in Montana
- Lake County Community Development Corporation Receives $750,000 USDA Funding
These funds are designated to assist new or small businesses across Lake, Mineral and Sanders Counties that may not otherwise qualify for commercial financing.
Careers
- Today's TED Talk Rosie King: How autism freed me to be myself
Why is everyone so worried about being normal?
Next Generation Broadband in Missoula
- Useful Internships Improve Grads' Chances of Full-Time Work
A Gallup-Purdue University study of college graduates finds 71% of the most recent graduates who strongly agreed they had these types of jobs or internship opportunities as undergrads are working full time now for an employer.
- The Real Reasons Why Women's Careers Stall After Parenthood
A new study from Harvard Business School sheds light on what happens after graduation, and the answer isn't what you'd expect.
- 3 career experts share the keywords that stand out on a cover letter
It can be a frustrating process, one that sometimes feels like a blatant cry of, "Please just hire me already!"
Government
- Hello Cleveland! City Plans 100-Gig Network
Cleveland is partnering with a host of public- and private-sector organizations to build a downtown high-speed broadband hub.
Incubators and R&D
- Federal officials issue new code of conduct for police highway seizures
"Emphasize interdiction programs are NOT purposed for enhancing agency budgets."
North Dakota Business and Economic Development
- Montana scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories doing prion research
Rocky Mountain Laboratories http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/dir/rml/pages/default.aspx in Hamilton is a biomedical research facility equipped for scientists to study some of the most dangerous, infectious diseases on the planet.
Regional Economic Development
- The Downside of the Boom in North Dakota
North Dakota took on the oversight of a multibillion-dollar oil industry with a regulatory system built on trust, warnings and second chances.
21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
- Jobs Boom in Cities Where People Obsessively Network
...the results "suggest, quite reasonably, that increasing connectedness has the potential to improve the functioning of the labor market."
Education
- Harvard Researchers Build $10 Robot That Can Teach Kids to Code
The hope is that it can help push more kids into STEM, studies involving science, technology, engineering, and math.
- Stanford researchers bridge education and neuroscience - personalizing instruction for kids who are falling behind.
As methods of imaging the brain improve, neuroscientists and educators can now identify changes in children's brains as they learn, and start to develop ways of personalizing instruction for kids who are falling behind.
Montana Education Excellence
- Colleges Skirt Funding Standards by Cooking Student Records
"If we are seeing institutions that have historically been devoted to providing opportunities to underserved populations restrict access, the problem will only get worse."
- Why college is necessary but gets you nowhere
The problem is this; while a college education is now a prerequisite for joining the middle class, the middle class is in lousy shape. A college degree no longer guarantees a good job.
Funding and Building your Business
- MSU reports progress in raising low faculty pay, reducing student dropouts
MSU Provost Martha Potvin told the regents that Bozeman professors had been earning 70 percent of their peers at other universities - and 70 percent was a failing grade. Some of MSU's best professors, she said, were earning half of their peers -- far short of MSU's goal of 80 percent.
Energy and Climate Change
- How One Man Went From Homeless to CEO
"We're those people you shove in the corner, that you put on a floor nobody goes to, or outsource to some part of the world that nobody ever sees," he says. "We don't know our own power. We don't know how amazing we are."
- The Purpose-Driven Marketer: How Patagonia Uses Storytelling To Turn Consumers Into Activists
Not many brands can pull off a half hour of people telling stories about their favorite pair of 15-year-old swim trunks.
- Surround Yourself With People Smarter Than You
Some entrepreneurs are so in love with themselves (narcissistic) that they insist on answering every question, and making every decision.
Government Technology
- Climate Change Threatens to Strip the Identity of Glacier National Park
What will they call this place once the glaciers are gone?
- Solar and Wind Energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels
The cost of providing electricity from wind and solar power plants has plummeted over the last five years, so much so that in some markets renewable generation is now cheaper than coal or natural gas.
- Learn how to manage your thermostat - and save a fortune
Americans need to warm up on understanding those devices on the wall.
- Solar Panels That Configure Themselves
A new solar power system is easy to add to a roof, and performs its own safety checks.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- WEBINAR - Big Data Drives Sweeping Changes in Buffalo: From Neighborhood Revitalization to Snow Removal, 12/17, Online
The City of Buffalo, New York is using "big data" to fundamentally improve how it provides neighborhood specific services - from comprehensive neighborhood revitalization to basic snow removal - through its 311 call center with transformational results.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Your feel good minutes for the day.
I dare you not to smile.
- 16 Things It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn - Dave Barry
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
- Design Is Changing How We Eat - Carnivores May Never Know The Difference
"We're in IBM PC days. These are the first products of their kind."
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