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Archives for September 2011

7 Cools Things To Help With Infographics, Event Promo, or Your Web Marketing

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Since I’ve  been pretty heavy on sharing tools, tips, and tricks that help with marketing, social push, and related topics lately lets end the week with a few more tips. Here’s 7 handy social media friendly, Web2.0 resources that could help you if you need some PR and marketing tricks, event promotion tips, or other handy tools or the trade.

  1. Need Charts? Hohli is an intuitive, simple online chart maker. It’s incredibly easy to pick your chart type, add some data, vary the sizes and colours and see the finished chart.
  2. StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping application. Use it to easily and rapidly create visualizations from simple Flash maps to advanced infographics
  3. Creately lets you make easy-to-make diagrams and flow charts (easy to collaborate too). When you start, you can choose from a number of purpose-designed diagram types and quickly add your data to make your own chart.
  4. Visibly Social Analytics – Track each shared link in real-time, and find out which ones are being clicked on across Facebook and Twitter using  social analytics in real-time
  5. SWIX Analytics – Track over 75 social media metrics in one unified dashboard
  6. SpeakerMeter gives people attending a talk an easy way to provide by-the-minute feedback to speakers and gives speakers a way to visualize that audience feedback over time
  7. TweetVite – Hosting a tweetUp or unconference etc…? TweetVite is a social media event promotion tool that integrates with Twitter

Searching For Missing Portland GIS Pro, Mark Bosworth @findMarkB

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It’s been amazing to see the news spread as efforts to locate missing Portland OR Geospatial Technologist Mark Bosworth have ramped up over the past several days. Missing for over a week now, the cancer survivor is feared to have a medical condition that makes locating him very crucial, particularly as doctors have recently commented that his condition could be deteriorating rapidly – Bosworth’s doctor suspects his cancer has returned and gone to his brain, affecting the frontal lobe governing memory, reasoning and judgment. See the latest update on OregonLive

Mr. Bosworth is described as 6’0″, approximately 180 lbs with grey hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a grey Hoodie style sweatshirt, black bicycle style pants, shoes and a hat. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 541-957-2099

For activity on Twitter about Mark be sure to follow the #findMArkBosworth Hashtag and see also @findMArkB

Noteworthy items:

  • Mark likely has a BLUE Cycle Oregon wristband on his LEFT wrist.
  • Family, friends of missing Cycle Oregon volunteer Mark Bosworth plan bike ride in Portland Saturday

USGS Click LiDAR Resource Gets Life Till Year End

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Recall, earlier this week we shared details that the USGS LiDAR Resource, CLICK, would be shutting down – see USGS LiDAR CLICK Signing Off and Shutting Down.  Well, it seems the group has no secured some funding to sustain the resource until the end of the year.  This from the LiDAR BB and the CLICK team:

“We are pleased to announce that we have secured funding to keep CLICK up and running until January 1, 2012.  At that point in time we hope to have an approved comprehensive plan to maintain and improve upon this kind of lidar coordination, information and data provision as a fully operational program.”

See USGS LiDAR Click website

Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot, Social Media Panel Discussion at MISABC

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I had the pleasure to attend a small panel discussion at the recently held MISBC event in Sidney, B.C – MISABC is an event for the MISA organization and their membership of Local Government professionals. The final day of the conference was a day set aside to look at GIS and Geo technologies. The first part of the day was the main conference wrap up and devoted to a panel discussion looking at the Vancouver riot that followed during the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals which took place in Vancouver, B.C.

The 90 minute session was ripe with discussion and several panelists with varying background in technology, new media, social networking, journalism and the likes were invited to participate and drive the discussion (sorry but I didn’t take note of their names).

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InstaEarth Puts Your Instagram photos on a Google map

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I’m a big fan and user of Instagram on iOS. Here’s a nice implementation of the Instagram API along with google Maps. About the app from the developers… InstaEarth is a way to discover and view beautiful Instagram photography taken around the world. View your feed, friends’ feeds, popular photos, or navigate the map and explore the world through the eyes of Instagrammers everywhere. Check it out at http://instaearth.me

Instaearth – Instagram photos on a map
Originally uploaded by @gletham GIS, Social, Mobile Tech Images

Amazon Kindle Fire – Hot or Not?

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No Replacement for the iPad But Pretty Darned Sweet – As could be expected, speculation and blogging is rampant with many stories and pseudo “reviews” coming out, many of them touting the next “iPad killer”. Well indeed, Amazon is making noise, and for good reason… hell, who wouldn’t be interested in a sub $200 Tablet – think back a couple of months when HP held their fire sale and blew out their inventory of tablets.

Here’s how Amazon is touting the device – The New “Kindle Fire” – the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games, and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon’s new revolutionary cloud-accelerated web browser, vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core processor

Amazon Fire tablet

Check out the Device Specs, What you get, the Pros and the Cons

Top 10 IT Skills In Demand For 2012

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An interesting, short read from Tech Republic takes a look at the A new Computerworld the top IT skills that will be in demand in 2012. IT executives say they will be hiring for the following:

  1. Programming and Application Development
  2. Project Management
  3. Help Desk/Technical Support
  4. Networking
  5. Business Intelligence
  6. Data Center
  7. Virtualization and the Cloud
  8. Web 2.0 centered around social media
  9. Security
  10. Telecommunications

Nearly 29 percent of the 353 IT executives who were polled in Computerworld’s annual Forecast survey said they plan to increase IT staffing through next summer.  That’s up from 23% in the 2010 survey and 20% in the 2009 survey – See more details on the Survey HERE

Top 10 Things That You Should Be Including In Your Press Release

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For many companies, the PR and marketing department may be a PR machine, constantly creating and distributing interesting news and press to share with the World.  In the new age of new media you really don’t have to reinvent the wheel, however, for many companies, penning their PR has become rather robotic, with many of the same practices, styles, and tactics being used to get the word out. I receive dozens of PR releases every day, actually, I’m guessing that over the past 10 years I’ve likely received well over 500,000 of them!

With that, I’d like to share a short list of 10 items that anyone creating a press release might/should consider including in their press release:

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Foursquare Global Hackathon, Innovation In Social Location

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Wow, this is awesome. Glad to see the developers hard at work – the hackathon is a brilliant concept and never ceases to amaze me at the wealth of ideas that come out of it.. amazing what a couple of geeks fueled up on coffee, pizza, and redbull can do! Last week’s round-the-clock, round-the-world global hackathon saw more than 500 developers all over the globe produce a ton of incredible apps built on top of the foursquare API – about 90 developers were recognized.

Details of some of the finalists and crowd faves:

  • Sqavenger to create or play a scavenger hunt via text message and foursquare
  • Intersquares (by Mihai Parparita in SF) lets you see the intersection of your foursquare check-ins with a friend’s.
  • Near.co for building the best website using our new venue Push API. A four person team in SF worked through the weekend to build a digital screen replacement so that store managers can usher in the modern storefront with foursquare
  • VenueMachine, which allows venue owners to identify and reward influential visitors in real-time.

See more details HERE on the LBSzone

Here It Is – The All-New Kindle Family From Amazon

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You’ve been hearing about all the speculation for some time now, well the day is here… today Amazon rolled out details of the new Kindle family of devices.  The New Products include:

  • New latest generation Kindle – world’s bestselling e-reader now lighter, faster, and more affordable than ever – only $79
  • New “Kindle Touch” with easy-to-use touch screen – only $99
  • New “Kindle Touch 3G” with free 3G – the top of the line Kindle e-reader – only $149
  • New “Kindle Fire” – the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games, and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon’s new revolutionary cloud-accelerated web browser, vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core processor – all for only $199

Some points of interest:

  • The latest generation Kindle features a new design that is 30 percent lighter at just 5.98 ounces, 18 percent smaller, and turns pages 10 percent faster
  • Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages, search, shop, and take notes
  • Kindle Touch 3G offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch – small and light, easy-to-use touch screen, storage for thousands of books, and extra-long battery life
  • The new top of the line Kindle Touch 3G is only $149. Kindle Touch 3G is available to customers in the U.S. for pre-order starting today at www.amazon.com/kindletouch3G and ships November 21.
  • Kindle Fire – All The Content–Over 18 Million Movies, TV Shows, Songs, Apps, Games, Books, and Magazines

See Complete Details HERE – Introducing the All-New Kindle Family: Four New Kindles, Four Amazing Price Points

 

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