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Sharing with the Community


What things are you doing to share your knowledge with the cartography, GIS, or developer community? Everyone, even the newest professional, has something that they are adept at and that the rest of us can benefit from learning. What things are you doing that help create community, involve people, and allow for flourishing networks? Things you should consider doing are listed here. Feel free to chime in with any list items that I’ve left out.

  • Submit a map to a conference map gallery
  • Give a talk at: a conference, a university, a community college, your organization
  • Start a brown-bag series at work
  • Start a lightening talk gathering (Ignite Spatial, perhaps?) in your town
  • Write-up how you did something and submit the how-to as a guest-post on a blog
  • Make a screen-capture movie of your map or analysis process and share it on YouTube
  • Write a book or manual and publish it (if it isn’t graphics intensive it is relatively easy to self-publish these days!)
  • Submit an analysis or technique write-up to a GIS journal
  • Submit an article idea to a GIS periodical
  • Give an online workshop, webinar, teleconference , or google+ hangout on a subject you are passionate about
  • If you have a question, post that question somewhere so others can benefit from the answer(s) too
  • Be interviewed by a publication about your job duties, requirements, and accomplishments
  • Teach a class
  • Be a visiting speaker for a local community college’s GIS class
  • Be a conference exhibitor
  • Host a breakfast meet-up with colleagues

haakon_d Håkon Dreyer
@PetersonGIS Good post; could a mention of gis.stackexcange.com be an idea?

This entry was posted on October 13, 2011, 1:21 pm and is filed under Cartography Profession. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

  1. #1 by Keith on October 13, 2011 - 2:05 pm

    Participate in GIS Day, do some OSM

  2. #2 by Amanda Taub on October 13, 2011 - 3:05 pm

    Start a local GIS user group
    Talk at your local GIS user group about a project

  3. #3 by Tina Cary on October 13, 2011 - 9:30 pm

    Great list, Gretchen.
    Join a professional society and actively participate. Find your peers on twitter and/or LinkedIn; share links and encouragement and feedback as appropriate. Set up an introduction to geocaching (part of GIS Day?). Help a service organization map local wheelchair accessibility (wheelmap.org).

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