Archive for November 2008





Geography and Geospatial careers resources

Nov 22nd, 2008 | By

There are a wealth of Geography career sites and job listing sites out there but we thought we would create a list of just a few for folks to take a look at. I missed Career day on Friday, but we made a globe(ish) cookie so I was busy Geography Career pages AAG Careers page [...]



AVSP GAW08 – AAG and Geography Careers

Nov 21st, 2008 | By

Sue and Jesse spoke with Matt Koeppe, GIScience Program Director of the Association of American Geographers about Geography and GIScience careers and the AAG’s careers site. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version



Daily Show – Magic Wall Conspiracy

Nov 20th, 2008 | By

We’ve talked about these devices before and they’re pretty cool. They were used a lot in this past election. The Daily Show with John Stewart has a pretty funny take on touch screens. It’s a pretty funny mix of technologies, the media, and a surveillance society. Note, parts are PGish, so watch in appropriate company.



Europeana – European history and culture goes online

Nov 20th, 2008 | By

The European Union is in the midst of a project to make over 1000 years of European history, art, and material culture accessible online through a digital library called Europeana. The project was started two years ago, and already over 3 million items have been digitized and are available, with the hope to get 10 [...]



AVSP GAW08 – GeoSearch, Inc.

Nov 20th, 2008 | By

We spoke with Jessica Touchard of GeoSearch about their role as a geospatial recruiting firm and Geography and geospatial careers. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version



AVSP GAW08 – GIS Day

Nov 19th, 2008 | By

Jesse, Sue and Frank talk about some of the things that might help you finding that great career in the geospatial industry. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version



GISDay Cookie

Nov 19th, 2008 | By

Who needs a cake when you can make a cookie….. Happy GIS Day!



AVSP GAW08 – URISA Leadership Academy

Nov 18th, 2008 | By

Jesse spoke with Hilary Perkins at the recent URISA conference about their efforts in creating and running the new GIS Leadership Academy. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version



Intuit Moves Quickbooks Into the Geospatial World

Nov 18th, 2008 | By

Intuit is announcing a new geo-demographic feature at the Adobe Max Conference. It’s to be built on Flash (grrr), but it will allow even the most basic Quickbooks user to tap into geodeomgraphic information and their sales information. The app is a sort of mashup, as the Quickbooks data lies on the user’s machine, but [...]



AVSP GAW08 – My Wonderful World

Nov 17th, 2008 | By

We spoke with Anne Pollard Haywood on the role of the My Wonderful World campaign in educating children, and parents, about Geography and our world. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version