Marketing and Rebranding GIS: Opportunities for GIS Professionals
GIS professionals need to emphasize more than just their geospatial skills when marketing GIS to organizations.
GIS Success: Geospatial Career and Management Webinars
Three GIS industry veterans, Toby Soto, Wade Kloos, and Tim Nolan, offer their decades of experience to help others in this series of GIS related webinars.
How Does a Degree in GIS Affect How You Feel About Your Career?
Salary site payscale.com released the results of its 2014 college survey that looks at which college majors pay the best and are the most meaningful. The survey … Read more
GIS Job Description Book from URISA
URISA has just released the second edition of Model GIS Job Descriptions as an eBook. The first edition was published back in 2000 and was written by … Read more
Should You Get a GIS Internship?
Those currently studying for a career in GIS should consider carefully how to start their GIS employment. One of the most important strategies is to … Read more
Mark Greninger | Profiles from the Geospatial Community
Mark Greninger has been the Geographic Information Officer (GIO) for Los Angeles County since 2006. In this latest Profiles from the Geospatial Community installment, Greninger shares his thoughts about the field of GIS.
GIS Skills
What skills are needed to be a successful GIS professional? Broken down by category, listed here is an in progress list of all the skills … Read more
Six Things You Should be Doing to Enhance Your GIS Career
GIS is not a static field and neither should your ongoing professional development be. With more and more academic institutions offering GIS certificate and degree-based … Read more
Five Reasons to Start Using QGIS
For those of you still sitting on the fence about developing some hands on experience with the open source GIS platform QGIS, here are five very strong reasons to start this Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) now.