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Your Mapper - 2 minute speech video

In the spirit of openness, and like the MapLight blog entry last week, I wanted to share my 2 minute speech with the other projects so they can get some ideas and possibly provide some feed back. So here is a video of me speaking about the Your Mapper ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  25 May 2008

Use Twitter at the Conference to Organize and Meet with Other Attendees

Twitter is a great tool for a number of niche tasks. But it only works and makes sense once you have a certain critical mass of followers and friends. It's good for getting informative updates from people you know and respect.  It's good for asking ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  19 May 2008
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Your Mapper Project Lead - Ted Ko

Your Mapper has a Project Lead now and his name is Ted Ko. Ted was matched up with Your Mapper through the efforts of the NetSquared team and Billy, and brings some great small business experience and project planning skills to Your Mapper. Here's an ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  15 May 2008

Your Mapper Team Member - Ben Peskoe

I'd like to announce a new member of the Your Mapper team, Ben Peskoe, who will be our Development Manager. Ben will be attending the NetSquared conference so everyone will get to meet him there. Ben has a stong background in web programming and ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  15 May 2008

The Open Municipal Geodata Standard Organization Website

I'd like to announce a new website that I'm starting up called The Open Municipal Geodata Standard Organization Website, or OMG Standard for short, at www.omgstandard.com. The idea behind it is to have an open forum to discuss and collaborate on how to ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  13 May 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Sunlight Foundation

Your Mapper Logo Contest Winner

I've just awarded the prize to EastSideDesigns.biz for his submission of logo #158 . Congrats! Thanks to everyone who talked with me or sent me messages about the designs they liked. It was really helpful to get some community feedback for this. His ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  13 May 2008

Logo Contest and Experiment for Your Mapper

For the Your Mapper project, we decided to use an existing site to "crowdsource" the design of our logo. This means that we are starting up a paid contest to determine our logo. Anyone can contribute a design for free, everyone can vote for and ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  6 May 2008

Newspaper Coverage of Metro Mapper (and Your Mapper)

Louisville's newspaper, the Courier-Journal, wrote their first full article about Metro Mapper on the front page of the Business section. It's a great distillation of about three hours of interview with the reporter, Bill Wolfe. So far it's generated ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  29 Apr 2008

Twitter's Impact on the NetSquared Contest - $5 Well Spent

I thought that some of you might like to know what I did to get the word out about voting for the Your Mapper project. Here are some details, focusing on Twitter. I believe that Twitter played a significant role in my success in NetSquared's mashup ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  16 Apr 2008

Thanks to the Community

I wanted to thank everyone in the NetSquared and Metro Mapper communites that voted for my project, and got it into the top 20!  I'm excited about the Your Mapper project and looking forward the San Jose conference to meet the organizers and the other ...

From METROMAPPER, NetSquared,  27 Mar 2008

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