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Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) 2011
Conference and exhibition takes place on 25th January 2011, for further details see http://www.wbresearch.com/dgieurope/ Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) is Europe's largest and most international annual gathering de dicated to the high-level discussion of the...
What would you utilise GIS for?
If you had no barriers or constraints, what would you use GIS for? Would you use for forest mapping, agricultural field boundary assessment, mapping street furniture or utilities, supporting charity work through provision of mapping services? Would you go more wild,...
GIS Day – 17th November 2010
GIS Day is playing a powerful role in creating geographic awareness throughout our world. GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our...
International Project Management Day – 4th November 2010
International Project Management Day (IPM Day) is intended to encourage project based organizations worldwide or organizations who utilize project management methodologies to schedule some type of recognition event within their organizations or coordinated locally...
Are virtual conferences a waste of time?
Some would say yes without hesitation – you can’t beat a ‘real’ conference, there is no ‘face to face’, it is difficult to ask questions during presentations or demo’s, surely the technology is far to complex to let me join, I bet I will have difficulties, I simply...
Project management as a life skill?
Wikipedia states ‘Life skills are a set of human skills acquired via teaching or direct experience that are used to handle problems and questions commonly encountered in daily human life.’ [1] The World Health Organization defines life skills as "abilities for...
Book Review: Transforming Government and Public Services
It was very timely that I began reading this book just as the new UK Government took power. There were a lot of promises and discussions over the need to change government procedures, policies and services, and to look at major programmes of work and decide which ones...
ForestSat 2010
ForestSat 2010, 7th-10th September 2010, SpainFor further information see http://forestsat2010.usc.es The aim of the ForestSat 2010 conference is to present and discuss remote sensing techniques and methodologies to improve land management in general and forestry in...
Book Review: International Project Management
I’ll get this out of the way at the start, this is a textbook, and is stated to be aimed at advanced business or engineering students, and practitioners. Having been a student once, a CPD advocate, and a project management practitioner, I have to say this book does...