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Glacier National Park, Montana, United States
Credit:Trey Ratcliff
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Clypsydra Geyser on Flickr.
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I think I picked the wrong career field. #lifeflight #helicopter #missoula #montana #awesome
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#beautiful #montana #mountains #mothernature #fence #11milerun (at Montana)
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me at Glacier National Park, MT. c.2010
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National park Yellowstone, USA
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Montana. my soon to be office/backyard.
“Easy” is a word that’s used to describe other people’s jobs. -Jason Fried, 37Signals
Explore Exporting Seminar - Missoula June 18th
HELENA — The Montana Department of Agriculture will host an Explore Exporting Seminar on June 18, 2013 in Missoula. The seminar will provide Montana companies the information necessary to expand their sales by tapping into the 95.5 percent of consumers living outside of the United States.
The Explore Exporting Seminar will highlight the benefits of exporting and will provide participants access to key resources. John Wiley Spiers, author of How Small Business Trades Worldwide, will teach participants how to find customers, qualify them, and make an export sale as safe and easy as domestic business. Spiers is an adjunct lecturer who has been trading worldwide since 1974 and his export sales program has proven effective for food companies large and small.
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Three Insurers to Offer Health Insurance Through Montana Insurance Marketplace
Blue Cross Blue Shield, PacificSource, and Montana Health CO-OP to sell plans through online market
HELENA, Mont. - Montana Insurance Commissioner Monica J. Lindeen announced that three health insurance companies intend to sell health insurance through the federal insurance marketplace in Montana.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, PacificSource Health Plans, and the Montana Health CO-OP filed paperwork with Lindeen’s office to sell products on the marketplace. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana also submitted forms for a multi-state plan, a unique product developed under a contract with the federal government.
All Montana health insurers intending to sell insurance in the marketplace were required to file their forms with Lindeen’s office by May 15th. In August, insurers will make final commitment to sell insurance on the marketplace.
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Going for a stroll… #riversedgetrail #dam #mightymo #greatfalls #montana #springtime #thunderstormontheway (at River’s Edge Trail)
Never Hire a Dud Again on OPEN Forum
Don’t get fooled by fast-talkers—take these four steps to make sure your new hires are top notch:
1. Make them show, not tell
2. Be painfully thorough
3. Be consistent
4. Resist optimism
Read more on OPEN Forum on the key things to do when hiring that’ll guarantee you never have buyer’s remorse for a hire again,(via Never Hire a Dud Again | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)
QUAKE LAKE, MONTANA
Nature is so amazing. Late one night in August of 1959, a huge earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale sent a massive 80 million ton landslide rushing 100 miles an hour down Sheep Mountain in southwest Montana. It buried homes and cabins, destroyed roads and buildings, and killed 28 people who were camping on the shores of Hebgen Lake and the Madison River. (And you thought bears were all you had to worry about when camping, right?) The landslide completely choked off the flow of the Madison River, which began to backfill in the valley upstream, and within a month the six-mile long Quake Lake was created. Today you can drive around the lake, over the visible landslide and stop in the visitor’s center to learn more.
(Archival images: USGS)
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KC O’Connor is a Guide to Wyoming for The American Guide. He’s a writer and photographer based in Lander, Wyoming. Follow him on Tumblr at kcowyo.tumblr.com and on Twitter.
Made in Montana Trade Show Moves to Helena in 2014
(HELENA) - The Made in Montana Food and Gift Show will be held March 21-22, 2014 at the Lewis & Clark County Fairgrounds in Helena.
March 21 will be exclusively for wholesale buyers, with March 22 open to the public.
The Montana Department of Commerce will be producing the show as it did when the show was created in 1998.
The Department of Commerce uses this show as a training opportunity to help small food and gift businesses enter and succeed in the wholesale marketplace. The Montana Small Business Development Center network will assist in providing resources and seminars for exhibitors and wholesale buyers in growing and expanding their business.
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Going-to-the-Sun Road, Montana - completed in 1932, National Register of Historic Places in 1983, a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1985. The road is a spectacular 50-mile, paved two-lane highway - the only road that spans the width of Glacier National Park east & west, crossing the Continental Divide at 6,646-foot-high Logan Pass. It passes through almost every type of terrain in the park, from large glacial lakes & cedar forests in the lower valleys to windswept alpine tundra atop the pass.
Also on my bucket list. I should set up a Facebook road-trip donation page, lol!
Talentd Revolutionizes Hiring Process, Brings Global Tech Spotlight to Missoula
(Missoula) - A new Montana business, Talentd, is revolutionizing the hiring process, bringing enterprise level software to small and mid-sized businesses across the nation. The new company is a spin-off launched by Submittable, a Missoula-based startup that has received international attention and expanded into a global market with its innovative multimedia digital file submission platform.
Talentd is tapping into a market with tremendous growth opportunities by providing a solution for the millions of businesses currently hiring through a combination of e-mail submissions, direct mail and walk-ins. Without an organized system, the hiring process becomes time consuming and difficult to manage. Talentd’s platform allows employers to hone in on their best candidates without piles of paperwork or clogged inboxes. The cloud-based platform seamlessly integrates into any website and instantly organizes resumes upon submission, giving hiring teams a centralized location to review and collaborate around applicants. The unique and affordable software as a service (SaaS) model allows instant access to features employers need to make informed hires and avoid costs linked to lost productivity.Talentd’s Director, Jennifer Shryock backs up the company’s claims with hard data:
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Montana State Fund Lowers Rates for Policy Year 2014
Montana State Fund’s (MSF) Board of Directors announced a six percent (6%) rate decrease for the coming policy year effective July 1, 2013. Since 2007 MSF has lowered average rates to Montana businesses by 34.5%.
“This rate reduction is another example of how our policyholders have invested in keeping their employees injury free,” said Laurence Hubbard, President and CEO of Montana State Fund. “Focusing on safety in the workplace and getting injured employees back to work as soon as medically appropriate helps control rising insurance costs, and the results are tangible.”
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Lean Manufacturing Workshop in Ronan May 15th
BOZEMAN - A one-day workshop on lean manufacturing techniques, also known as the Toyota Production System, will be offered Wednesday, May 15, in Ronan.
Offered by the Montana Manufacturing Extension Center and Lake County Development Corporation, the event will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Ronan Community Center, 300 3rd Avenue NW.
The workshop will include a live factory simulation to let participants apply lean methods and observe their impacts as they learn key principles of cutting waste from processes. Lean techniques can often be implemented with little or no capital expenditures.
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Oil Boom Drives Rapid Population Growth in Northeastern Montana
MISSOULA – Newly released county population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show significant growth in Montana’s northeastern oil patch, according to a University of Montana researcher.
Jim Sylvester, an economist at UM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, said that Richland County, which contains Sidney, was among the fastest growing counties in the country with estimated growth of 6.6 percent during the past year. Other nearby counties –Sheridan, Wibaux, Fallon, Roosevelt and Dawson – grew about 3 percent in the past year.
“Net in-migration was the driving factor for those counties influenced by the Bakken oil fields,” Sylvester said. “People are moving into these areas for jobs related to energy development and related services.”
