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Where 2.0

The 2011 Where 2.0 conference is wrapping up today in Santa Clara, CA.  Over the course of the week, many of the presentations have been streamed live over the conference website. I’m including a few YouTube videos for some of noteworthy presentations.

Jack Dangermond – CEO and founder of Esri: “Living Maps – Making Collective Geographic Information a Reality”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbGwY3aG0g&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Architect of Bing Maps and MSN at Microsoft:  “Read/Write World”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X9u4JG9H6E&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

Ben Fry – principal of Fathom: “Mapping: From Interesting to Insightful to Irrelevant” (coming soon)

 

Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping & New Media for Ushahidi: “May the Crowd Be With You: The Future of Crisis Mapping for Disaster Response”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_NguESRZ4g&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

Dennis Crowley, Co-founder, foursquare; and Robert Scoble, Managing Director, Rackspace: “Future Location: Scoble & Dens”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpTDGeLiFnc&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

John Barratt, self-described “Geo, twitter & weather web hacker”:  “Who, What, Where, When: Creating New Maps from Geo-tweets”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey_m0F_b-Vw&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

Sylvain Carle, CEO & co-founder @ Needium: “Locking Yourself Out in London (and Tweeting about it)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvcs4H_A0Wc&feature=autoplay&list=PL0B2FEB8AACD826BE&index=16&playnext=1

 

 

 

By Janine Glathar

Janine Glathar joined the Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship team in 2009 to fill the newly-created role of GIS Specialist at Bucknell. She has worked in the field of geospatial technologies for more than 15 years as research specialist, technical analyst and software trainer. Prior to joining L&IT at Bucknell, Janine spent seven years doing applied GIS research in Philadelphia’s non-profit social services sector as the GIS Senior Analyst for Philadelphia Safe & Sound and the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition. Before transitioning to the social services research world, Janine worked for the GIS software company ESRI as a trainer and education/non-profit coordinator. She earned a B.A. in European History and Russian Language/Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. If you ask Janine where she’s from, she’ll tell you she’s a Navy brat and will probably offer to show you a map of all of the various places she’s lived over the years.

Areas of expertise:
ArcGIS, Digital Pedagogy, Digital Scholarship, GIS, Google Earth, Spatial Thinking