Eric Colburn, PLS

Category: Business Videos

  • LightSquared – Part Two Video on The Communicators

    LightSquared – Part Two Video on The Communicators

    On The Communicators, the second part of our look at LightSquared, a company building a national wireless broadband network. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) of the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee and Jim Kirkland, founding member of the Coalition to Save our GPS are critical of LightSquared’s goals and business practices. Also joining the discussion…

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads & Highways Video

    AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads & Highways Video

    Civil Engineering Customers embracing Autodesks Road and Highway solutions with special focus on the Alaskan Way Viaduct & Seawall Replacement Project. Watch the AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads & Highways Video For more information, click onto the Autodesk Civil Engineering Resource Center.

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 9, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 9, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09 Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company LightSquared CEO on The Communicators Senator Chuck Grassley Continues to Pursue Information on LightSquared, Agency Interaction Elgin & Knowles-The U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS) for Arkansas Reference Book and Manual New…

  • LightSquared CEO on The Communicators

    LightSquared CEO on The Communicators

    On a special hour-long The Communicators, Sanjiv Ahuja, CEO of LightSquared, discusses the company’s effort to build a $14 billion high-speed wireless network and concerns that its network might interfere with GPS global positioning equipment, including some used by the military. Sanjiv Ahuja wrote a full-page letter to the American public published in some newspapers…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 18, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-18 USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Now Online Sokkia Releases NET-AX Series of Automated Total Stations for 3D Monitoring LightSquared Video to Debunk Several GPS Interference Myths-Facts or Propaganda? Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network House Aviation Subcommittee…

  • LightSquared Video to Debunk Several GPS Interference Myths-Facts or Propaganda?

    Yesterday, I published a press release by House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Tom Petri Rebuts LightSquared Ad in Letter to CEO and another press release where the Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network. In summary, Congressman Petri, House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman, disputes the LightSquared arguments that the GPS manufacturers are on the wrong side of this interference…

  • Phil Staub of Garmin Explains the Threat to GPS from the LightSquared Broadband Plan

    Phil Staub of Garmin explains the threat to GPS from the LightSquared broadband plan. Recorded at AirVenture 2011. This is a good video explaining, in general terms, what the situation is with the GPS vs. LightSquared issue. Watch the Threat to GPS Video

  • Hexagon 2011 Keynote: Turning the Pace of Change into the World’s Advantage Video

    Ola Rollén, President and CEO, commences Hexagon 2011 with a visually stunning and informative keynote address, “Turning the Pace of Change into the World’s Advantage”, which also included Hexagon Metrology President Norbert Hanke, Hexagon Geosystems President Juergen Dold, Intergraph PP&M President Gerhard Sallinger and Intergraph SG&I President John Graham. Watch the Hexagon 2011 Keynote: Turning…

  • Texas Board of Professional Land Surveyors Threatened With Elimination Due To Budget Cuts

    Texas Board of Professional Land Surveyors Object of Budget Cuts This week it was announced by Texas Governor Rick Perry that he is proposing to eliminate the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveyors, along with the elimination of three other agencies and consolidation of several other boards and commissions, as a cost cutting measure to…

  • Visualize Your LinkedIn Network with InMaps

    LinkedIn, the business-oriented and world’s largest professional social networking site (over 90 million members), has unveiled a cool mapping tool called InMaps. This online mapping tool uses color coded associations to map your entire LinkedIn social network. Being able to visualize your professional LinkedIn network allows you to identify your prime connectors and areas where you…

  • 5 Tips For Marketing Your Land Surveying Company Using Videos

    5 Tips For Marketing Your Land Surveying Company Using Videos

    In this Premium Membership post we’ll discuss, as the title says, 5 Tips For Marketing Your Land Surveying Company Using Videos. I think using videos is a fantastic way for you to connect with your existing customers. At the same time you’ll be throwing open the doors for new customers to easily learn about whom…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Marketing Tip-Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation

    Over the weekend I listened to a few podcast; some funny, some news oriented and a few with business and marketing topics. Marketing is often misunderstood, or overlooked altogether, by many professional land surveyors, engineers and designers. So, when I find something to help you understand a subject, like marketing in this case, I’ll share…

  • RealtorsTV: National Association of Realtors Video-Existing Home Sales Down But Prices Rise

    RealtorsTV: National Association of Realtors-Existing Home Sales Down But Prices Rise

  • Professional Land Surveyor News-Army Corps of Engineers Blamed for Katrina Flooding

    According to Newsy, the online video news service, which cites WWLTV, CNN, FOX News, The Times-Picayune, and WDSU as sources, the Army Corps of Engineers Blamed for Katrina Flooding. For the first time since the 2005 disaster the government has been held liable for the 2005 disaster by a lower court judge, who has ruled that the…

  • Pending Home Sales Record Fourth Straight Monthly Gain

    Washington, July 01, 2009 Pending home sales show a sustained uptrend, rising for four consecutive months with very favorable housing affordability and a first-time buyer tax credit boosting activity, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,1 a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in May, increased 0.1 percent to 90.7…

  • Decline in April Home Prices Better Than Expected According to Forbes.com Consumer Reading In Focus

    According to Forbes.com, the decline in April home prices where better than expected. Watch this Forbes.com Consumer Reading In Focus Video to learn more about the April home prices and other financial news.

  • O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference: Jack Dangermond, “Realizing Spatial Intelligence on the GeoWeb”

    ESRI president Jack Dangermond video at the 2009 Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, California, talking about Realizing Spatial Intelligence on the GeoWeb. Covered in his talk is: GeoWeb. WebGIS Cartographic Knowledge Geographic Knowledge Created in GIS Environments. Data and Web Services. Sharing of Geographic Knowledge. Spatially Integrated Thinking to a Broader Society Leveraging Investments…

  • Google Apps and Small Business Video

    Google Apps is for small businesses, or individuals for that matter, that want to implement a browser based email and document solution. Using Google Apps allows you to check your email and documents from anywhere, as long as you have Internet access and a browser. If you use Google Apps, let us know how it…

  • National Association of Realtors Reports Pending Home Sales Up for Three Months in a Row

    National Association of Realtors Reports Pending Home Sales Up for Three Months in a Row WASHINGTON, June 02, 2009 Record low mortgage interest rates boosted pending home sales for the third consecutive month, with some benefit now from the first-time buyer tax credit, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,1…

  • Autodesk Helps States Spend Stimulus Dollars Video on NECN.com

    Here is a video I found on NECN.com about how Autodesk and Autodesk 3-D design software, like AutoCAD Civil 3D, is benefiting from the Federal Stimulus plan to put Americans back to work improving our nation’s highways. In this video, Autodesk manager Richard Humphrey talks about accountability and transparency as a requirement of the stimulus…