Land Surveyor Blogs

Help LSU Grow By Voting Once

This month I have tried something new in the way of raising money for development on Land Surveyors United. I entered a web design contest, in hopes of winning $2500 which will go towards promotion of Survey Earth in a Day 2.0. You can help this effort with a single click of your mouse. Simply go to this page on Facebook before the 1st of the month and click VOTE beside the Land Surveyors United website (which can be found here). Of course, we can always use your donations for developmenton the network, but this month I decided to try something different and really need YOUR help to win! VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Welcome to all of our newest members to the community! With now close to 3900 members globally, we have introduced a new powerpacked page just for curating content for the network. The Curate Content Dashboard is a page you should bookmark and head right over to when you have an idea to discuss with the network, photos to upload or videos you'd like to share with us. Simply look for the (+) in the navigation.

Upgrades to Our Global Members Map~ Now Edit Your Location!

Our Member Map Goes Members Only

As many of you have noticed, our Global Member Map is now for members only, allowing you to reach out to members of Land Surveyors United with ease. The old member map just showed location and wasn't much help, but we wanted to protect members from outside contact. Now, if you are a member you can find another member on our new member map and also edit your placemark in anyway you see fit. The next time you are on Surveying.org, look in the right sidebar and click on LSU Member Map option. Updating your status using the Mobile Rover will soon make your profile show up in real time on Surveying.org. In other words, we can all be "surveying" as a community all over the world, every day.
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Edit Your Place Marker on the Member Map

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Land Surveying Terms A-Z and How You can Get Involved

I have been working on a project for the community called Land Surveying A-Z which can be found here. This is and will be a continually evolving subject index for the network and eventually an alternative way of navigating the site. There is an embedded commenting form below the index for you to either suggest new terms to be added to the index or share a link to a post or page inside the network which does a good job of explaining an existing term. All surveyors are encouraged to contribute and suggest terms in any language! Help the community and our industry by helping to create the most comprehensive glossary of surveying related terms anywhere on the planet!
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For those new to the network, you may not know that you can fully customize your LSU profile, adding background images, changing the fonts and even the header image to match your brand or interests. Did you know that a complete profile attracts 86% more business proposals? It will. Here are some tips for customizing your LSU profile.

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Survey Earth in a Day 2.0

Survey Earth in a Day 2.0 is scheduled for June 21st 2013 (the day of the solstice) and will be a continuation of SEIAD 1.0 last June. Join us on Facebook to discuss the future of Survey Earth in a Day.

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Updates to Our Surveyor's Mobile Rover

Complete Mobile Rover Features Overview

Explore the Land Surveyors United Network's Mobile Roverand all of the tools and features that you can use, while on the go, from any…

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New! Manage Your Group Forums on the Go!

When you're out surveying in the field and using our mobile network interface from your
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Coming Soon! Surveying Company Pages!

Next Week, we will be adding the ability to add surveying company pages to location-based groups in order to help your company show up higher in search engines. There will be three options for templates to choose from. It will be assisted by a few case studies regarding how using the network to boost traffic to your site and some examples of surveying companies who are already benefitting from this type of exposure. Here is an example to get your mind going. We have a dedicated Facebook page to watch for updates to this new feature.

Making Friends Overseas

Have you ever thought about the ways that surveyors on the other side of the world do your job? Expanding your personal professional network by meeting geospatial professionals in other parts of the world will expand your knowledge and perhaps even add a few new knotches to your career belt. Dive in and introduce yourself to other members around the world today and bring that spark back to your passion for surveying! Join and engage with your local society or a society elsewhere here. You'll be glad you did!

Get Your Photos Featured Globally

As you may have noticed, our home page background image has been changing quite a bit lately. These background images are your submitted photos to the network. How do you get your photo featured as the background? Glad you asked. It is a simple formula: Add good relevant titles and descriptions. Tag your photos properly and give them a geolocation. If your photo is unique and eye catching, you may just see it featured across the network some day soon!
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