Ten Reasons Why Most Business Plans Fail As someone who is involved in helping companies develop strategic plans, and as someone who is involved in several small businesses, I found this article to be right on target. It may help your company reach its true potential
10 Decisive Tactics That Win Product Reviews While provided mostly for the supplier side of our audience, the information may be very useful for anyone who has ever read a product review.
10 Tips for Better Business Writing In the interests of making us all better writers, here is Tim North's "10 Tips for Better Business Writing."
Thanks A Lott The ASPRS awarded the senator from Mississippi [Trent Lott] the prestigious ASPRS George E. Brown, Jr. Congressional Honor Award for 2002. The award was given to Sen. Lott in recognition of his leadership, policy guidance, and legislative efforts contributing to significant advancements in the science, engineering, application, education and commerce of imaging and geospatial information.
Top Eight Morons of 2002 I suppose this is the time of year to think about resolutions and the good times of the past year. Then again, if you have nutty friends Ñ John Kercher comes to mind Ñ you get oddball emails. John sent me the following list of the Top Eight Morons of 2002. I cannot resist sharing it with you. Perhaps you know of these folks.
Top Ten Tips for Better Voice Mail Do you ever get voice messages that you simply cannot understand? How about that wonderful game called telephone tag? Annoying, isn't it? Kate Schultz published some tips that I think we should all incorporate into our daily lives.
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Virus Hoaxes Richard Lowe submitted another great article about the non-GIS things you should know about computers. This month he explains the crazy phenomenon of virus hoaxes. Some are as good as the real thing.
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Web Services and GIS
The concept of Web services is relatively simply to understand. Business use information technology because it helps them function more efficiently. As the technology matured businesses began to exchange information electronically. With the advent of the Web, this idea of electronic information sharing became obvious, even as the requirements became more onerous. This need for information exchange brings in another need to make this information selectively visible and its visibility to be changed on the fly.
What is MAPublisher?
Avenza's Ted Florence decided to take an informal poll on the listserver, and asked what the products means to its users. Understand that this is a powerful question. While it is important for developers to understand what they are creating, but in the marketplace the only thing that really matters is what the customers think.
Where Were You on GIS Day 2001?
In the midst of worldwide turmoil, 80 countries participated in GIS Day. ( http://www.gisday.com) It was held November 14, 2001, and given the participation, it can be rightfully deemed another success. GIS Day 2001 showcased 25 industries and the integral role that GIS technology plays within each industry. Its objective is to introduce millions of children and adults to GIS by asking organizations around the world to hold events that educate people about GIS and the impact it has on their everyday lives.
Windows XP Safe and Secure?
Richard Lowe submitted a timely article on the security of Windows XP. Microsoft has a way of publicizing their new products as if everyone must have it immediately. There are a number of great new aspects to XP, most notably its stability. However, Microsoft seems to insist on testing the security of its software on you, the end-user. Lowe takes a hard look at these issues in Windows XP.
Working with Arview Image Analysis
So just how do you get users to learn about your products without the expense of a training seminar? You hold the course online. Take the recently released Arview Image Analysis. Before you could get the shrink wrap off the software box (or did you download it?), ESRI announced Working with ArcView Image Analysis. The course gives ArcView software users the opportunity to expand their abilities using the ArcView Image Analysis extension.
World Bank Deposits More Mapping Data
The World Bank likes to give nations of the world money. In fiscal year 2001, they gave US$17 billion in loans to its client countries. But, luckily for those of us in the GIS business, they have more than money to give away. We just got the good news that the World Bank Group provided 23 unique layers of worldwide mapping data, or “development indicators,” to ESRI’s Geography Network for inclusion in its extensive collection of georeferenced data.
World Trade Center and GIS
There are so many stories about tragedy and heroics to write about, but this is hardly the place. Many of you are doing your best as GIS practitioners to help in anyway you can. Space does not allow us to write about every use of GIS. Instead, I have decided to let you know what one firm, Intergraph is doing to help.
