<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Dear GIS Colleagues….</strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Advance Your GIS Management Competency Development with the <em fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;">GIS Managers Bootcam</em>p Workshop  - 8 hours online over two days – March 18 & 20. Seats are limited. View the workshop details and register today: </strong><a href="https://www.assetmapping.events/2026-gma-workshops" target="_new" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(76, 140, 246);">https://www.assetmapping.events/2026-gma-workshops</a></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;">GIS management is one of the most demanding and also most rewarding of careers. GIS does not come ready-to-use out of the box. Every GIS is a custom system, built with data, hardware, software, applications, and a team of GIS professionals each with their own competencies. The GIS manager is the glue that holds this system together.</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;">This workshop is based on a framework of the essentials of a successful GIS operation. First – what are the characteristics of a successful GIS? How do we know a successful GIS when we see one? Second – what are the management outputs that guide, support, and sustain a successful GIS? And finally, what are the essential competencies that a highly <span style="color: black; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:black;">effective GIS manager needs to ensure the GIS succeeds? </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:black;">The <strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">GIS Management Academy<span class="theme-emoji">™️</span></strong>, in cooperation with <strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">ConnectMii Training</strong>, is offering the <strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;">GIS Managers Boot Camp </em></strong>workshop <strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">live and online on</strong> <strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">March 18 & 20.</str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le="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;">Effective GIS Governance – Mar 25</li><li fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;">GIS Managers Competency Self-Assessment – Mar 26</li></ul><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;">If you manage or support a GIS program, reach out to me - I’d be happy to answer any of your GIS management questions.</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">View the workshop details and register today: </strong><a href="https://www.assetmapping.events/2026-gma-workshops" target="_new" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(76, 140, 246);">https://www.assetmapping.events/2026-gma-workshops</a></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;">I hope to see you in these workshops!</p><div data-signature-parent="sig-parent" translate="no" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;"><signature style="display: table; width: 100%; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" data-signature-id="local-dff02158-3b56" fr-original-style="display:table;width:100%;"><p 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); user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" 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);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">g</span></em></strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">reg</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:13px;font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span></em></strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:16px;font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Babinski</span></em></strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="user-select: inherit; scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-acti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