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Archives for January 12, 2010

Mobile Tip – WebEx Live Meetings over iPhone

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I just love technology… and I really dig mobile technology! And so it’s always great when technology works and when you realize some great gains in productivity by taking advantage of some of the fabulous technology that’s out there. Case in point, I found out this morning that the WebEx (think live webinar from Cisco) service now has an iPhone client. I took part in a today’s webinar from LizardTech showing off the latest in their Express product suite (including Lidar Compressor) and was treated to this app via a registration email sent to me from Webex. there i was, sitting in a coffee shop grabbing a cup and loading the PC client from WebEx when the app failed and wouldn’t load for me (perhaps I missed something but I looked around and couldn’t troubleshoot the problem). Luckily a link to the WebEx iPhone app was provided.

So, I simply forwarded the email with the link to my gmail account (accessible via my iPhone mail client), installed the application, and logged into my webinar… right on time. The application serves up a slide show, complete with list of attendees and ability to chat (an option to review slides would be good). The app then called me and I listened to the audio portion via phone call streamed to my headphones so i wouldn’t disturb anyone inn the coffee shop – great stuff!

So now there’s no excuse for missing out on webinars and other live events.. amazing! I also couldn’t help think how valuable this could be for executives that travel frequently or even for professionals working in the field. Imagine a live meeting any time any place… all you need is an iPhone (in this case) and a mobile with data connectivity – just think of the possibilities! Imagine your team in remote locations. In the meeting I attended the Lizardtech team was accessing the New Jersey orthophoto server, pulling live data feedfs, and sharing over the web via webex technology.. i was viewing the data live on my iPhone… now that’s cool!

So now there’s no excuse for missing out on the next live webinar! FYI, check out the LizardTech webinar schedule here and test this out for yourself!

5 Popular Social Media Tools Used by Twitter experts

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The best way to get up and running with social media fast is to watch what the experts are doing and adopt some of the methods and tools that they are using. Here’s a quick look at 5 popular social media personalities and a description of the tools of the trade that they are using… enjoy! In this list we’ll share with you some tools for url shortening, RSS feed push and campaign scheduling, mobile Tweeting via iPhone, a PC client, and social location check-ins.
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ArcGIS 10.0 and the Jack Dangermond podcast introducing the next release

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Did you know that ArcGIS 9.4 was recently [officially] renamed to ArcGIS 10.0? This was a hot topic flying around Twitter tonight as details of the official announcement have been shared among the Geo Tweeters still hanging around after “business hours”. I took a few minutes to listen to an ESRI podcast with Jack Dangermond.

From Jack… the team has been working on this release.. and he notes how this [release] is much bigger than a dot release, hence the version jump. 10.0 is Important because it makes the UI much easier, expect more integrated productivity tools; map creation is easier as is editing, enhancements to web editing… imagine much more User Generated Content (UGC) on the web; better management of imagery (desktop and server). At this release ArcGIS become a full 3D GIS, analysis, visualization.. one can do virtually everything they do in 2D in 3D.

Other highlights include:

  • The introduction of temporal at all levels.
  • The server is getting much stronger (particularly for image management)
  • Many new Web2.0 tools… important as many are moving towards GIS in the cloud.. support for citizen science and other user generated scenarios.
  • Integrated tech support and feedback into the development of the product (more than 2,000 Beta sites in place)
  • Look for more “coaching” online.. with much better training, support, and documentation available to the user.

Funny that everyone seems hung up on the name change (this solicited a chuckle from Jack as really, it’s a small part of the process). Dangermond noted the following (HUGE)… “At this release ArcGIS become a full 3D GIS, analysis, visualization.. one can do virtually everything they do in 2D in 3D.”

Expect 10 to ship mid-late !2 – certainly before the user conference.
For more on ArcGIS 10.0 see HERE

To listen to the full interview Click HERE

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