<p fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 16.05px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit;" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 16.05px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit;">Show me the money! Registration is now open for a new GIS Management Academy workshop: ‘GIS Return on Investment (ROI) Fundamentals’ on Tuesday, February 22.  This two-hour online GIS Management Academy<span fr-original-style="filter: none;" style="filter: none; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit;"><span class="theme-emoji">™️</span>️</span> workshop introduces the use of return on investment (ROI) analysis methods to document the net financial benefits that an agency achieves from its GIS. In this workshop we will review the types of benefits that GIS provides. We will focus on recent (non-GIS industry) literature that documents the significant ROI from GIS at various social and institutional levels.</p><p fr-original-style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 16.05px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit;" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 16.05px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit;">A major portion of the workshop will demonstrate a simple, objective methodology that has been used to quantify and report GIS performance metrics and ROI. Each attendee will receive a copy of the custom template that they can use to document their agency’s GIS ROI. Learn more and register today at: <a fr-original-style="color: rgb(76, 140, 246); box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; user-select: auto;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gis-return-on-investment-roi-fundamentals-registration-252411308017" style="color: rgb(76, 140, 246); box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gis-return-on-investment-roi-fundamentals-registration-252411308017">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gis-return-on-investment-roi-fundamentals-registration-252411308017</a></p><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit;"></div><div data-signature-parent="sig-parent" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit;"><signature data-signature-id="local-dff02158-3b56" fr-original-style="display:table;width:100%;" style="display: table; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit;"><p fr-original-style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" style="margin: 0px;color: rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; use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