Archive for November 2008
Nov 22nd, 2008 |
By Jesse
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 [...]
Posted in general, GeographyAwareness |
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Nov 21st, 2008 |
By Jesse
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
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Nov 20th, 2008 |
By Frank
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.
Posted in Gadgets, general |
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Nov 20th, 2008 |
By Sue
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 [...]
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Nov 20th, 2008 |
By Jesse
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
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Nov 19th, 2008 |
By Jesse
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
Posted in general, GeographyAwareness, Podcast, Show Notes |
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Nov 19th, 2008 |
By Sue
Who needs a cake when you can make a cookie….. Happy GIS Day!
Posted in General, general |
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Nov 18th, 2008 |
By Jesse
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
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Nov 18th, 2008 |
By Frank
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 [...]
Posted in Data, general, WebMapping |
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Nov 17th, 2008 |
By Jesse
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
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