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GIS Lounge conducting a GIS Skills and Employment Survey

Dec 7th, 2011 | By

Are you currently employed in the field of GIS? Help contribute to GIS Lounge’s study about the state of GIS employment and the skills needed to succeed as a GIS professional. The results of the survey will be published in early 2012 on GISLounge.com. This is a great service to the community and the more [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 333

Dec 4th, 2011 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 333 December 04, 2011 Main Topic: Dawn Wright of Esri and Oregon State University Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 332

Nov 27th, 2011 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 332 November 27, 2011 Main Topic: Kinect and immersion Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



Enjoy the turkey

Nov 24th, 2011 | By

Thank You! Not much more to say since you guys are the reason that we keep doing the podcast year after year. We also want to thank our blog contributors who joined us this year. Thanks Jeff, Jim, and Barbaree. Of course, our sponsors help us get to some great places to talk to folks [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 61

Nov 22nd, 2011 | By

A follow-up discussion on certification with Jeff Dunn. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC



GIS Day 2011 – Games: Space, Place and Interaction

Nov 16th, 2011 | By

On Tuesday Sue and I sat down for our first distance presentation. Our audience were faculty and students at the University of Szeged in Hungary where a friend/colleague of ours is spending time as part of a Fulbright. Since we were on Skype and in front of mics anyway I recorded the presentation to share. [...]



Discounts for your GAW and holiday gifts

Nov 15th, 2011 | By

Each year as the holidays approach (and yes I include GAW in that list of holidays) we try to reach out to a vendor who carries Geographic or cartographic items to see if they would be willing to cut you guys a break/provide a discount in exchange for some free ad space on VerySpatial. This [...]



GAW2011 is here

Nov 14th, 2011 | By

Ladies and gents, we are firmly into Geography Awareness Week 2011 (#gaw2011) and events they are a-happenin’ from your local classrooms to the social media circuses. If you haven’t checked out the usual suspects you should head over (in no particular order) to: GeographyAwarenessWeek On Facebook Mission:Explore MyWonderfulWorld Blog Geography@About.com to name just a few [...]



American Education Week 2011

Nov 12th, 2011 | By

We are on the heels of not only Geography Awareness Week but American Education Week as well (the 90th in fact). Take some time to thank the educators you may bump into during the week and head over to the National Education Association’s website to find out what the daily themes will be during the [...]



Less than a week to GIS Day

Nov 10th, 2011 | By

GIS Day is next Wednesday, November 16. If you are not hosting an event, that doesn’t mean that you can’t help spread the word. Oh contrare, you can use your freelance status on GIS Day to get the word out. Whether you are sharing your interest via your favorite social media, telling your neighbor about [...]