<div id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;">Geography is not just a Jeopardy category. Successful GIS managers are life-long learners. But rarely do we think about how geographic theory and basic geographic thinking can make us and our GIS programs more effective and successful.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;">This 2-hour online workshop on September 16 provides an overview of how thinking ‘out of the GIS box’ can enable us to be more effective managers and help find new applications of geospatial information science and technology for the agencies that we support. We will review how thinking like a geographer can help us understand and communicate the full potential of GIS. And it will help us instill geographic thinking in the staff that we manage and the community of end-users that we support.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;">This GIS Management Academy workshop aligns with the ‘Geography’ Academic Competency in the US Department of Labor Geospatial Technology Competency Model and many foundational articles in the Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;">Geography matters! Learn more and register here today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leveraging-geographic-theory-and-thinking-for-gis-managers-registration-941691814567 </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;">-Greg Babinski, MA, GISP, EthicalGEO Fellow</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) transparent;"></div><img class="flm-open" width="0" height="0" style="border:0;width:0;height:0;" src="https://api.flockmail.com/dc/t/mo/v2?t=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJwIjoiMTAwMiA3NzQ1MjEgZ2lzX2luZm9Ab21scy5vcmVnb24uZ292IDM5NzhkMjI3ZTdmODAxMzhkYmFiN2ZjZTA2NDkzZjhjIDM1MzM1NTM0NDgzMTExOTU0IiwiZXhwIjoxNzQwOTMyOTk4fQ.xB2QEK7QPh8WPXsZ6yMB1zrgPibT3jXUHHJGmLvBlzcax4dfEJ3C2fTa0A7BQOyEo1UcFbGDrzjJXxMsQUgs9w&exp=1740932998065&r=us_east">