Geoff Zeiss’ Between The Poles Sponsorship

About Geoff Zeiss

Geoff passed away September 14, 2022.
For over 30 years, Geoff Zeiss devoted his life to the Geospatial industry and community all over the world.
It was a life focused on the utility and construction sectors, mapping underground utility infrastructure, BIM, CAD, Geospatial interoperability, machine learning, and much more.
Zeiss created Between the Poles, a thought leadership blog where he advocated on issues of importance to the community.

About Sponsorship Project

Goal: To move the original data out of the Typepad site and into a new more modern CMS with content management tools, forms, e-commerce, and social media. Potential for directories/postings of: companies, orgs, jobs, events, associations, etc.
Keeping the spirit of Betteen the Poles content will be curated by an advisory committee. Content will be divided into leadership pieces and more commercial content that is paid for.
A separation between the two is important.
Geoff Zeiss Archive of articles 2006-2022 over 2,500 articles
Rated in the top 5,000 of all websites on the internet for authority
Tools for article submission
Promote the endowment with direct and indirect giving
About the Endowment
Endowment in Geoff’s Name at Carleton University
Geoff Zeiss Infrastructure Mapping Fund
Builds on decades of innovation in developing effective and sustainable urban infrastructure through research and development supporting urban information systems
Range of possibilities from graduate scholarship to endowed chair(s)
Developing partnerships with flagship programs to establish research priorities
Carleton University coordinating across disciplines, researchers, and other universities and organizations

About the Sponsorship Program

Yearly sponsorships for the continued maintenance and development of the site
50% of sponsorship dollars will be directed to the Endowment
The other 50% will be used for the development and maintenance of the new site and content
Geoff passed away September 14, 2022.
For over 30 years, Geoff Zeiss devoted his life to the Geospatial industry and community all over the world.
It was a life focused on the utility and construction sectors, mapping underground utility infrastructure, BIM, CAD, Geospatial interoperability, machine learning, and much more.
Zeiss created Between the Poles, a thought leadership blog where he advocated on issues of importance to the community.

About Sponsorship Project

Goal: To move the original data out of the Typepad site and into a new more modern CMS with content management tools, forms, e-commerce, and social media. Potential for directories/postings of: companies, orgs, jobs, events, associations, etc.
Keeping the spirit of Betteen the Poles content will be curated by an advisory committee. Content will be divided into leadership pieces and more commercial content that is paid for. A separation between the two is important.
Geoff Zeiss Archive of articles 2006-2022 over 2,500 articles
Rated in the top 5,000 of all websites on the internet for authority
Tools for article submission
Promote the endowment with direct and indirect giving

About the Endowment

Endowment in Geoff’s Name at Carleton University
Geoff Zeiss Infrastructure Mapping Fund
Builds on decades of innovation in developing effective and sustainable urban infrastructure through research and development supporting urban information systems
Range of possibilities from graduate scholarship to endowed chair(s)
Developing partnerships with flagship programs to establish research priorities
Carleton University coordinating across disciplines, researchers, and other universities and organizations

About the Sponsorship Program

Yearly sponsorships for the continued maintenance and development of the site
50% of sponsorship dollars will be directed to the Endowment
The other 50% will be used for the development and maintenance of the new site and content

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