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Blogging at the Esri User Conference #ESRIUC Catching up on the ESRI UC – Plenary Session

If you missed this year’s 27th annual ESRI International User Conference or if you are looking for another viewpoint on the news and announcements, then take advantage of the many bloggers out there that have posted their reviews of this conference. The number of bloggers who write about GIS and related technologies is growing every year. With the enormity of the conference (over 14,000 attendees this year), it is impossible to be everywhere. Bloggers can help fill in the gaps by providing clarity (or at least their opinion) on announcements or highlight new technologies that you might have missed during your visit.

ESRI User Conference

• ESRI User Conference Blog
  Get the scoop on the events at the User Conference straight from the ESRI staff on their blog.

• Nate Irwin
  In a blog posted entitled “A Not-So-Concise Summary of My Week at the 2007 ESRI UC“, Nate Irwin summarizes the plenary session as well as write-ups from the Technical Sessions he visited.

• ESRI User Conference – General Impressions
  Feedback from Peter Batty who, after 20 years working in the GIS field, attended his first ESRI conference.

• ESRI Conference – Day by Day
  Daily notes from the Etheriant Geoblog on the ESRI User Conference with write-ups on the sessions the blogger attended (the blog is freshly set-up so some of the tabs and links are the WordPress default but the daily summaries are useful).

• ESRI Conference 2007 — San Diego!
  This entire blog seems to be dedicated to the 2007 ESRI User Conference.

Plenary Session

The plenary session is always held the Monday of the conference and is the major session for ESRI announcements and demonstrations of emerging software releases. This year, the theme was The Geographic Approach and featured keynote speaker Wangari Maathai who spoked about the Greenbelt Movement. You can check out the gist of her speech by visiting the ESRI User Conference blog.

• Notes from the ESRI UC: Plenary
  Blogged by David Smith, the Surveying, Mapping and GIS blog has a multi-post write up on the Plenary session, mostly focusing on notes and commentary about ESRI’s software enhancements: Post 1, Post 2 and Post 3.

• Welcome to ESRI User Conference 2007: Amateurs Go Home!
  Commentary from Sebastian Good from the It is what it is Blog casting a critical eye on the Plenary Session.

• Very Spatial Plenary Notes
  Morning and Afternoon notes from Very Spatial.

ESRI Software :

• User Conference Summary – ESRI ArcGIS Explorer Blog

• Cool New ArcGIS Explorer Tools – It is what it is Blog

• ArcGIS Image Server – Author, Serve, Use… Random Notes from the ESRI UC
  Notes from Glen Letham, editor of GISUser.com on ArcGIS Image Server.

• ArcGIS Server 9.3 – In Brief
  Notes from Joe Francica from the All Points Blog.

• Software Notes from scrappad
  Quick notes on software enhancements by Jithen (J) Singh.

• Mobile Mapping – ArcPad 7.1
  Highlights frm Glen Letham.

Photos:

• David Smith – Surveying, Mapping and GIS Blog
• GISUser.com Photos – taken by Glen Letham

Other Posts of Note :

• ESRI 2007 User Conference Open Thread
  Open thread post from James Fee’s blog soliciting feedback from readers on their reactions to the UC blog.