If you have read my articles and blog entries over the years, you may know that I have a real fondness for geographic-based data analysis. I have loved maps since I was a kid (when I was in elementary school I used to visit all the local gas stations when they used to hand out road maps free). Today, with the ubiquity of handheld GPS systems, location-bsaed services are rapidly becoming a critical component to any enterprise information management program.

I just finished a paper on location-based services and am doing a webinar on it this Thursday. Register at http://bit.ly/cO82dv. I am looking forward to seeing you at the webinar!

I will be the guest speaker at an executive breakfast seminar in Boston on October 28^th to discuss the critical link between Data Quality, MDM and Data Governance. If you are interested in attending, please register through http://bit.ly/cM5q7k - looking forward to seeing you there!