It’s summertime in Seattle, and you know what that means—interns! The LizardTech team is thrilled to welcome Mika to the marketing team. In the month that she’s been here, she’s done a great job helping out with press kits, organizing our GIS literature, and all in all making our lives just a little bit easier.

Mika is a third-year at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. She’s studying economics and has a special interest in international marketing. She hopes to one day work for an industrial firm that helps provide infrastructure to developing countries.

If that’s not cool enough, Mika has a hobby that puts all of mine to shame. She’s a scuba diver! We’ll have to convince her to scout out the Puget Sound for us and report back.

Welcome to the team Mika!

In a guest post on Act-On’s Marketing Action Blog, LizardTech’s own Dani Calvert has written up three useful points to consider in making the most of your company’s social media presence. We’ll give you a hint: the points have to do with images, three Rs, and mobile devices.

Read it here and if you’re tweeting or “facebooking”, please don’t hesitate to retweet or repost!

Editor’s Note: Genie wrote this weeks ago and we meant to post it right away, but we dropped the ball (“we” being an unidentified editorial entity who may or may not have the initials MF).

Sacramento! Image courtesy of Robert Parker.

A handful of us Lizards attended the ASPRS conference in Sacramento last week. Here are some of the highlights:

Monday evening – ASPRS reception. LizardTech was one of the sponsors for this at Fat’s Catering in Old Downtown Sacramento. Great appetizers, great drinks and good company.

Tuesday morning – Show floor opened at 10:30. Terry Ryan and I popped across the street to pay a visit to the USACE in Sacramento. It went great. We had a good-sized group turn out and were able to discuss products and workflow for a couple hours.

Tuesday evening – The vendor reception was from 5:30 – 7:30 on the show floor.

Wednesday – Wyoming DOT came by the booth for a pre-arranged visit to drop off a sample dataset that we then compressed with GeoExpress and threw into Express Server for delivery via WMS all in a matter of minutes while they were standing at the booth – which is something we will do for anyone interested in finding out how quickly and easily they can use our products with their data.

Thursday – Washington DNR came by the booth to invite us down for a visit to their office once we got back from the conference to discuss workflows. Located in Olympia, they are just a short one-hour drive for us from the LizardTech office in downtown Seattle.

ASPRS is a great show for us to meet with others in the industry, maintain existing relationships, and cultivate new ones. Thanks for all who stopped by and took the time to say hello. We hope you enjoyed the show and look forward to seeing you at the 2013 ASPRS annual conference in Maryland.

Last month we introduced you to our new inside sales support rep Travis, and this month we’ve got another addition to our small and tight-knit outfit we’d like you to meet. Dani (pictured below moments before dipping into a cauldron of java) is now our sales support lizard and will contribute to the efforts of both the marketing and sales teams. She’ll be processing orders, assisting with marketing projects and performing various administrative duties.

Dani keeps herself coffee’d up so she can support two different departments here at LizardTech.

Dani has held marketing internships in several different industries and has worked for the Port of San Diego, the San Diego Regional Airport Authority and MountainWest Real Estate. Dani graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego with a B.A. in business administration and a minor in public relations. Dani lives in Shoreline and tells us she loves to travel, run and read any book she can get her hands on. A big welcome to Dani!

The Associaton of American Geographers has just published the book Practicing Geography: Careers for Enhancing Society and the Environment, a “comprehensive new resource…designed to prepare students for careers in business, government, and non-profit organizations”. And hey! our own business development manager Jeff Young is profiled in it.

One of the authors, Janice Monk, writes about how Jeff makes working from home work for him in his business role, which he describes as being “something like a diplomat” for LizardTech (it’s true, we rely on Jeff to build and nurture positive relationships with leaders in the industry we serve).

Jeff’s in the book.

Learn about the factors that made him decide to become a permanent telecommuter and what that really looks like. Oh, and even though we skipped right to the profile of Jeff, there are 263 other pages that will be of interest to students eyeing careers in the geospatial industry.

The book is available now from Pearson and from Amazon.