There’s no question that the GIS industry and Geo technology companies are quite proactive with the geo shwag. No, I’m not bored, this is just something I’ve been wanting to do for some time, so without further hesitation, enjoy this fine collection of GIS / Geo shwag courtesy of some of the fine companies in our industry. Unfortunately over the years (and after a couple of moves) the closet has been cleaned out a couple of times, shirts have been forced out of my closet by the wife and then donated to the thrift store after a couple of year’s wear, several have become car polishing rags (sorry about that!) a couple have been lost (I leave something behind in the hotel on every trip it seems) and one year Rich and I actually donated a couple of dozen to homeless guys in San Diego! Many of these items have been seen by countless people as I’ve toured many cities in numerous countries, frequently sporting a geo look as I walk about or sit in airports waiting for a flight. Enjoy this fine collection of wearable marketing material… if yours shwag isn’t here feel free to contact me to arrange to have it added to the collection ;0) So which one is your favorite or, if you have a favorite GIS/Geo shirt who’s it from?? What works best for shwag as far as bang for your buck?? I think long sleeves and black T’s are the way to go, getting more wear out in public and they seem to last longer than the basic white Beefy-T… cool sayings like “check out my shmapplets” and without the L its BS are definite winners for poularity!
Archives for November 13, 2008
Study GIS at Vancouver Island University
You may (or may not) be aware that I’ve lived much of my life on Vancouver Island (B.C Canada) and that I graduated from U of Victoria (BSc Geog); well here’s a chance for you to go live and study on the Island at Van Isl U (was Malaspina) Vancouver Island University is now accepting applications for the Advanced Diploma in GIS Applications (ADGISA). See more about the program
EDU Spotlight – A Satellite View of the Journey of Lewis and Clark
With GIS Day and Geography Awareness Week (GAW) upon us it’s time to explore some fascinating learning resources available to us. One fabulous resource with some amazing imagery comes to us from the USGS… Enter The Voyage of Discovery Continues: A Satellite View of the Journey of Lewis and Clark. Read on for more about this great resource and a tip to some very cool imagery you can download and mount on the wall – See details
Twitter Updates for 2008-11-14
- apparently Nokia vine is rolling out to public soon http://www.nseries.com/nseries/vine/ been using it for 2 weeks, quite cool indeed! #
- FYI, GIS Day open house at City of Loveland next Wed. 12-4 PM theme will be “Everyday GIS” #
- why why why do PR agencies insist on distributing their PR to the media as PDFs… wake up! #
- Nokia viNe – share your mobile multi-media and experiences on a map – my complete How To and a look at viNe http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=2986 #
- laoded Nokia viNe on N95, tested it and wrote up a detailed how to… out of Beta this week #
- 275 of us are watching oreilly media webcast on Twitter for business #
- webcast is saving to #twitter4biz #
- interesting see the “F” word displayed in a webinar slide! #twitter4biz #
- 1 million tweets per day on twitter #twitter4biz #
- interesting to see how corps like @comcastcares and @wholefoods use twitter #twitter4biz #
- another fine GIS / Geo news round-up released http://www.gisuser.com/newsletter/nov132008.html #
- Looking forward to the new book from @guykawasaki showing up any time now… nice! #
- Nokia viNe photos and Opera 4.2 (Beta) shots uploaded to http://www.flickr.com/photos/gisuser/ #
- wow, I can get gas for $1.89 with my store discount card… dang! #
- @gypsybandito cool to hear… its amazing the apps and users of Geo.. history, archaeology, you name it.. tell him u know an expert ;0) in reply to gypsybandito #
- Loveland tree lighting set for Nov 30, no word on date for Festivus Pole to go up though… #
- what do you do with all your cool Geo shwag? Blog about it naturally! http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=2995 #
- @brianwillms what is that event about?? in reply to BrianWillms #
- Whats your favorite or coolest Twitter 3rd party app?? #
- Alex King has some great WordPress plugins… http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress #
- memo to self.. use memo to tell @whatleydude how cool SpinVox memo is! #
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Nokia viNe – share your mobile multi-media and experiences on a map – Beta ending
A note from Nokia reps this week informs me that the Nokia viNe application will be rolled out to Joe public very soon… possibly even this week. viNe is a web service that enables users of the application to share their journeys, along with media collected along the way, with others. As a long-time Sports Tracker user, N95 enthusiasts, and evangelist of all things mobile and geospatial, I was provided with a pre-release version of viNe – details and a complete “How To” install and use the application are provided in this article … enjoy! Enter Nokia viNe 101 – Please note, for the purpose of testing I was running Nokia viNe which came pre-installed on a Nokia N82 supplied by Nokia. As of today I am now running viNe on a Nokia N95 8GB without any issues or problems. For the full article and complete viNe “How to” see:
Share and Connect your life – Nokia Rolls out Nokia viNe – Your Photos, Video, Music on a Map
Another LBS Industry recap released today
It’s Wednesday and that means another LBSzone Alert was published today – From Today’s LBSzone Alert… To begin, loads of updates out of the Nokia Research camp recently, case in point, just this week Nokia and partners NAVTEQ and UC Berkeley announced a Large Scale Public Pilot project Mobile Millenium) designed to Gather and Analyze Traffic Information Using GPS-Enabled Mobile Devices. The pilot will involve volunteers in Northern California who will collect and study traffic data received from GPS-enabled mobile devices, such as the Nokia N96, Nokia N95 and Nokia E71. The pilot will operate over four to six months and up to 10 000 members of the public community can participate. One issue though is that you have to wonder just how many N95, 96 and E71 users there are in that part of the World? Regardless, this is the future (the NOW in this case) … think user-generated content!
Of interest to users of the popular WHERE mobile app and WHERE widgets, application users can now enjoy WHERE Vision! Think seeing what other users are doing. To view the entire newsletter see HERE
If you’re interested in mobile, location-based services you can register to receive the weekly LBSzone Alert here...
my social media tip of the day UserNameCheck… enjoy
Ok, you should know by know that I love sharing and I love giving readers tips to cool stuff to help with your business or social lives… well here’s today’s tip-o-the-day – usernamecheck. Simply put, this amazing resource takes a username specified by you “yourusername” and then scours the social media web, crawling dozens of major social media resources to check on the availability of your username. Once complete you can link directly to the registration page of any of the resources returned so you can secure your favorite username… this is awesome and a must bookmark! Your Welcome in advance! See http://usernamecheck.com/
The real kicker about this app is that even if your username is taken, you’ve just been turned on to dozens of social media networks that you likely never would have known about!
