Eric Colburn, PLS

Tag: Social

  • 4 Ingredients for a Successful Professional Land Surveyor Business Web Presence

    4 Ingredients for a Successful Professional Land Surveyor Business Web Presence

    4 Ingredients for a Successful Professional Land Surveyor Business Web Presence I was speaking with a fellow professional land surveyor about a property survey he is conducting for land next to a property I recently surveyed, when he said, “Later, I’ve got to ask you what is your secret?” Are you struggling to build a…

  • Google Plus Invites from the Professional Land Surveyor Source

    Google Plus Invites from the Professional Land Surveyor Source Last week I wrote about Exploring Google Plus for Business and Networking. In that post I wrote: You very well may have heard of the new Social Networking platform from Google lighting up the interwebs, called Google Plus (aka Google+). If you have not yet heard of…

  • 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…

  • Introducing The Professional Land Surveyor Daily

    Extra, Extra, Read All About it – The Professional Land Surveyor Daily is out! Recently I created The Professional Land Surveyor Daily, where you can read land surveying related Twitter content in the form of a digital daily newspaper. An Alternative to RSS and Twitter Search. Compiled from tweets of my recommended Twitter followers by…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Links This Week

    Professional Land Surveyor Links This Week: Business: Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending October 16, 2010 Surveying: Pakistan Government to Approve Land Surveying & Mapping Bill to Bar Unregistered Firms | Business Recorder Business: Consumers More Likely to Use Businesses Active on Social Media News: New Zealand Modernizes its Infrastructure Network with Trimble GNSS Technology | Trimble…

  • Announcing Premium Membership with Premium Benefits Including Free Downloads

      Please join me, Eric Colburn, PLS, and become a Premium Member, where you’ll enjoy many Premium Benefits including Free Valuable Downloads. If you’ve visited this site in the last few weeks you’ve noticed a new design, including a whole new and creative professional Premium Membership community. If this is your first visit, than welcome!…

  • Marketing Your Land Surveying Business Online-A Few Thoughts

    Marketing Your Land Surveying Business Online-A Few Thoughts

    In this Premium Membership post, Eric D. Colburn, PLS shares a few thoughts on Marketing Your Land Surveying Business Online. He touches on social media, social media marketing, and press releases including a thought provoking comparison to the early days of email. Closing out, he gives you 5 tips on how to start using social…

  • Social Media, Old Media, and the Professional Land Surveyor

    Social Media, Old Media, and the Professional Land Surveyor Yesterday I was doing my usual routine of checking into the various social media communities I frequent, like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and I came across a link to an interesting forum post by the administrator of Land Surveyors United about why other surveying publications and…

  • EricColburn.com The Professional Land Surveyor Source Turns Two!

    Yesterday, it just occurred to me that this site, EricColburn.com the Professional Land Surveyor Source, has turned two. Well, it actually happened on last Saturday, and I really didn’t start writing regularly here until the first week of July, 2008, but you get my point. So I wanted to take a moment to recognize this…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Survey-What is Your Favorite Social Networking Site?

    In this week’s PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR SURVEY I’m asking the question: What is Your Favorite Social Networking Site? In the last two or more years I’ve seen more and more professional land surveyors, engineers, AutoCAD users, and designers using social networking sites like Facebook, Land Surveyors United, Linkedin, MySpace, Twitter, and Tumblr. These are just…

  • PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR SURVEY-Looking Forward to 2010 or Glad to See 2009 Go?

    In this week’s PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR SURVEY I’m asking the question: Looking Forward to 2010 or Glad to See 2009 Go? I ask this question both from a land surveying industry perspective and from a personal perspective. I’m sure that from a professional land surveying industry perspective 2009 has been a year full of challenges for…

  • PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR SURVEY-Is Your Company Having a Party for the Holiday Season?

    In this week’s PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR SURVEY I’m asking the question: Is Your Company Having a Party for the Holiday Season? I’ve read some comments by Professional Land Surveyors, AutoCAD and Engineering types on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn about company holiday / Christmas parties and the economy – and it got me to thinking about…

  • Land Surveyors United-Earth’s First Online Surveying Community

    What if there was a way for Land Surveyors to meet online and develop social networks, without leaving their desks? Well then I’m happy to introduce to you Land Surveyors United (LSU). This is a social media site developed by Palmetto Equipment Equipment & Supply, Inc. geared exclusively for those professionals in land surveying, GPS, mapping…