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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb
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2014 Montana Politics & 2015 Legislature
Early Edge Montana
- Lawmakers vow to help Montana, North Dakota oil-patch towns stretched by influx of workers
"We're very hopeful we'll be able to find a path where we can do it this session," Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said.
Kalispell Chamber of Commerce
- Making a Case for Investing in Preschool
"The longer policymakers wait to invest in American children, the less likely it is that they will achieve their full potential."
Montana Data Focused Business Cluster
- Kalispell Chamber announces legislative survey results
Legislative survey evaluates local opinion on taxes, education and infrastructure
The Frontier Medicine Better Health Partnership
- M.B.A. Programs Start to Follow Silicon Valley Into the Data Age
"We're responding to the best practices we see in the outside world like A/B testing and working with massive data sets," said Garth Saloner, dean of the Stanford business school. "We're adapting."
Visit Montana - Montana Dept. of Tourism
- University of Montana to Host Nation's First Rural Medicine Hackathon
Medicine hackathons bring clinicians and administrators together with a diverse group of entrepreneurs, engineers, students, medical residents, programmers and designers to collaborate openly. The process takes a broad range of ideas and concepts and results in new and innovative solutions that can be implemented.
- Rural Medicine Hackathon, 3/20-22, Missoula, Montana
The Rural Medicine Hackathon is a must-attend event bringing together thought leaders, changemakers, and participants from all sectors of healthcare, business, engineering, technology, and innovation.
- The Frontier Medicine Better Health Partnership
The FMBHP and our 25 participating Critical Access Hospitals have been working together to create a program-wide Better Health Improvement Plan.
Inteneo Systems
- USGS' new mountain bike maps inspire future rides across Montana
What do bike riders do when the rest of the outdoor world goes skiing? They get to work on their maps.
Come Home Montana
- How to keep your company's project management on track
"Implementing only siloed departmental projects is simply ineffective and a poor use of human and financial resources,"
- The Nine Worst Questions Your Parents Will Ask You This Week, and the Data You Need to Answer Them - It's all about DATA!
Here is a step-by-step guide for responding in a factual, chill manner when anyone asks you one of these nine inevitable, soul-sucking questions.
Montana Business
- ADF Group plans to add 100 more jobs at Great Falls facility
About 45 of those positions would be fabricators and fitters, but they are also looking for support staff such as forklift operators.
TEDx Events in Montana
- Missoula's Stringed Instrument Division -
The Most Experienced Luthiers In North America
- Plum Creek donates $35K to northwest Montana food banks
For the seventh year in a row, a donation by Plum Creek Timber Co. will help northwest Montana food banks meet the ongoing needs during the holiday season.
- UM Researchers Measure 2014 as Strong Year for Montana Tourism
Nearly 11 million nonresidents visited Montana and spent more than $3.9 billion in the Treasure State in 2014.
Careers
- classic TED Talk Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished."
Idaho Business
- Worst job interview moments of 2014
This survey is guaranteed to cheer you up (unless you happen to be part of it).
Regional Business
- Out-of-state migration fuels Idaho population growth
Strong migration from other states pushed Idaho's total population up 1.3 percent in 2014, the ninth-highest increase in the nation.
Education
- Patients' Costs Skyrocket; Specialists' Incomes Soar
"I felt like I was a hostage I didn't have any clue how much they were going to bill. I had no idea it would be so much."
Montana Education Excellence
- MIT Researcher's New Warning: At Today's Rate, Half Of All U.S. Children Will Be Autistic By 2025
Autism is a complex problem with many potential causes, but the numbers are particularly of note considering how close the correlation is, and Seneff's credentials.
Community
- The University of Montana unbelievab.ly event recap video is live.
This event was awesome, interesting people, important ideas.
- Saga Outerwear - Former University of Montana SoBA Students Turn Class Assignment into Successful Ski Outerwear Business
aga got its start when Andrew Mallett and Austin Stevens, both longtime skiers and then students at the University of Montana, were tasked with developing a theoretical business plan for a college course.
Funding and Building your Business
- How, where and how fast will Billings grow?
Tasked with figuring out how, where and when Billings will grow during the coming years, Candi Millar is seeking help -- from up to 109,058 of her fellow Billings residents.
- Moving in: New businesses filling up downtown Hamilton storefronts
"I think that the first step toward making good things happen in our community is to create an atmosphere in which positive developments become almost inevitable,"
Energy and Climate Change
- When we were small: Panera Bread
"For every hundred people who talk about building a national chain, one of them makes it."
- Branding 101: The Small-Business Guide to Building a Killer Brand Identity
Discovering and implementing your company's brand identity isn't as complicated as it may appear. Here are our play-by-play tips that can help you nail your brand identity.
Non-Profit News
- EcoStar Pollution Prevention Award applicants and nominees sought
The Montana State University Extension Ecostar program seeks deserving businesses and organizations to recognize for their outstanding pollution prevention efforts.
- Kit lets anyone design their own smart home without coding skills
LittleBits Smart Home Kit http://littlebits.cc/kits/smart-home-kit is enabling anyone to make their entire home smart using their existing appliances and without any programming skills.
- How solar power and electric cars could make suburban living awesome again
Suburbanites -- including politically conservative ones -- may increasingly become "accidental environmentalists," simply because of the growing consumer appeal of two green products that are even greener together: electric vehicles and solar panels.
- Clean energy development is good for Montana
Montana stands ready to lead the nation with clean energy development that bolsters our economy and saves money for consumers.
- First-of-its-Kind Map to Aid Policymakers on Climate Change
Because of climate change,people can see things changing in their communities. This map will help monitor that, and be available to anyone in the world so decisions can be made.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- How Charities Can Get More Out of Donors
Some of their findings turn the conventional wisdom at charities on their head.
Transportation
- MRI probe detects Alzheimer's at earliest stage
"Using MRI, we can see the toxins attached to neurons in the brain. We expect to use this tool to detect this disease early and to help identify drugs that can effectively eliminate the toxin and improve health."
- New endoscope finds cancer and then kills it
Chemotherapy drugs will be delivered intravenously. But unlike conventional treatment, the drugs will be encapsulated in tiny liposomes called nanoballoons.
- MIT launches "Solve" to galvanize action on solving the world's great challenges
Leaders to gather for keystone event at MIT next October.
- New website is like Couchsurfing for Airbnb hosts
If an Airbnb user has rented out his or her home, where does one sleep?
- Elon Musk's next trick: Landing a rocket upright on a barge in the middle of the sea.
SpaceX, his startup space company, has designed a rocket he hopes will be able to launch, then return to Earth, touching down softly on the bullseye of a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
- World's first 3D printed cars are now being made available to the public
We've seen 3D printed maps, shoes and even 3D printed urns, but this next innovation may have just trumped them all...
- Hyperloop Transit Could Be Running in 10 Years
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, co-founder of Paypal, founder of Tesla Motors, CEO of SpaceX, doesn't have time for Hyperloop, his envisioned subsonic mass transit system that would whisk people between Los Angeles and San Francisco at 800 miles per hour.
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