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Welcome to Hurricane Coast!
Jul 31st
We at Depiction are very pleased to announce today that Hurricane Coast is joining the company as Vice President of Sales & Marketing. All sorts of excellent details are in the official announcement. Hurricane was previously the program manager of the Open Initiative at MapQuest, has served as Community Ambassador at Cloudmade, and is currently a member of the OpenStreetMap foundation and the State of the Map 2011 organizing committee. She has been a contributor to OpenStreetMap since 2008.
We first met Hurricane last fall, when she joined us for an OpenStreetMap and Depiction webinar, and sat down for a Depiction Perspectives interview. We’re very glad that she’s going to be putting her considerable talents behind Depiction.
Hurricane Biz – an online tabletop business continuity webinar
Jul 11th
On September 13, Depiction, Inc. and the Disaster Resistant Communities Group, two of the companies behind the Formidable Footprint series of national neighborhood tabletop exercises, are offering businesses in hurricane-prone regions an opportunity to assess the capabilities and capacity of their disaster response plan in regards to a hurricane.
During the exercise, management and staff will have the opportunity to work together as a unified disaster response team. The team will work through the various activities associated with preparing for, then responding to and recovering from, a category two hurricane. Whether you have a disaster plan in place that you want to assess, or if you are looking for a compelling reason develop one, “Hurricane Biz” will provide you with both the tools and experience to help you reach your goal.
The exercise will be facilitated online using the ON-Line eXercise (ONX) System, and will also make use of Depiction’s mapping capabilities to help businesses better create plans that take their unique geographic location into account. To learn more, visit www.HurricaneBiz.org.
Mapping Employees with Depiction
Jul 10th
The Small Business Add-on is an easy way to get started using Depiction for business purposes, from strategic planning to business continuity and more. We’ve put together a new tutorial on how to use the Small Business Add-on to map employees–though you can follow the same instructions to map employees without the add-on, or to map anything in a spreadsheet, not just employees!
Depiction on an iPad
Jun 26th
We’ve had quite a few people express interest in running Depiction on an iPad–if you’re one of them, check out the video below!
UPDATE: The app being used here is Splashtop, which is available for the iPad, iPhone and Android devices.
“GIS 101” whitepaper helps everyday people harness the power of GIS
May 23rd
As mapping technology progresses, more and more people are gaining the capability to work with geospatial data. To help everyday people make better use of this data, Depiction, Inc. today released the free whitepaper “GIS 101: Understanding Concepts and Terms,” outlining some very basic ideas and terminology used in the field of geographic information systems (GIS).
“Before inexpensive word processing software, the only people who needed to worry about things like ‘fonts’ and ‘margins’ were the experts,” said Depiction, Inc. president Richard Smith, primary author of the whitepaper. “And today, understanding concepts like latitude and longitude, or vector data versus raster data is important for more than just GIS experts. We hope that ‘GIS 101’ will be valuable to the many non-experts who are finding the increasing amount of publicly available GIS data important to their decision-making processes and responsibilities.”
To download the free whitepaper, visit http://www.depiction.com/newsletter and register for the Depiction Newsletter.
Depiction, Inc. makes Depiction mapping, simulation and collaboration software, which brings expert level GIS, modeling and other tools to everyday users around the world. Depiction 1.3 can be purchased risk-free and downloaded for just $199 at www.depiction.com, and requires no subscription or maintenance agreement. Volume discounts and discounts for volunteers are available.
New Census data tutorial
May 18th
The 2010 census has made a huge amount of demographic information available.
See more mapping tutorials at the Depiction website.
“Local software delves into ‘What if?’ scenarios”
May 18th
Depiction’s hometown paper, the Everett Herald, ran a very good article today about Depiction:
Depiction allows small-business owners, emergency managers, disaster volunteers, families and first responders to find location-based answers for the “what ifs?” they may face, said Depiction Inc. founder and board chairman Mike Geertsen.
“This helps people tell stories about their lives,” he said. “It lets you mix the real and fantasy, lets you ask that ‘What if?’ “…
For $199, Depiction is an affordable way for business owners to create their own continuity plans to prepare for disaster when they’re not using it to craft market strategies.
This is one of the best articles I’ve seen about Depiction anywhere, so if you’re curious about the software–both what it does and how it started–I’d encourage you to read the whole thing.
Formidable Footprint Featured on Dallas TV
May 16th
We’re very proud to be a part of the Formidable Footprint national neighborhood exercises, and this video says a little about why. Watch for a glimpse of Depiction at 0:25!
Rapid, affordable mapping, simulation and collaboration with the new Depiction 1.3
May 9th
With improved GIS data support, enhanced customization options and new drawing and data management tools, the release of Depiction 1.3, announced today by Depiction, Inc., makes rapid, affordable mapping, simulation and visual collaboration even easier.
“We’re very happy to provide our users with numerous features they have been asking for in this latest major update,” said Depiction founder and board chairman Mike Geertsen. “These include drawing tools, new labels that can include web links and photos, and tools that make customizing your depictions even easier.”
Depiction 1.3 is a web-enabled desktop program incorporating mapping, simulation and collaboration capabilities, enabling users to build dynamic, interactive location based scenarios, representing historical, hypothetical or even ongoing situations. These capabilities have previously been reserved for highly trained systems engineers, analysts and programmers using complex, expensive, enterprise-level installations, but Depiction, and the enhancements in this new version, changes that.
“Depiction has proven to be an extremely valuable tool during our Search and Rescue Events,” said Gordon McCraw, Emergency Management Director for Tillamook County, Oregon. “The new enhancements in version 1.3, which includes the UTM data specifically used by our SAR folks, will make this excellent tool even more useful and quicker to use.”
“Frankly I have been spoiled and won’t even begin to plan or manage an event of any type without it,” said Doug Carter, an Amateur Radio Emergency Services District Emergency Coordinator from Saint Augustine, Florida. “Because Depiction is an everyday planning tool for me, I am excited about the new features in version 1.3, adding enhanced performance and customization capabilities to meet any and all unique circumstances.”
New features and enhancements included in Depiction 1.3 include:
Conference Week at Depiction
May 8th
In addition to another little project we’ll be officially announcing tomorrow, this is a conference-heavy week at Depiction.
Wednesday, May 11, Depiction’s own George Rodgers-Clark, along with Depiction Preferred Consultant RIc Skinner and two other friends of Depiction will be presenting during a panel discussion at the Veteran’s Administration Comprehensive Emergency Management Program Evaluation and Research Conference (CEMPER) in Washington, DC.
Then on Friday, May 13, yours truly will be presenting at OpenGovWest in Portland, OR, on a panel titled “The Financial Upside to Civic Engagement & Transparency Technology”. OpenGovWest is a great conference bringing together developers, government officials, non-profits, tech companies and many others around the concepts of increasing transparency, civic engagement, and modernizing government technology. If you’re anywhere near Portland on Friday, and are at all concerned with any of these issues, I’d invite you to come on out!
