User and Collaboration Envisioned as a free encyclopedia that would serve as a comprehensive repository for factual, unbiased GIS knowledge, wiki. GIS.com is free, available to anyone, and moderated by the GIS community. invited to be moderators. Unlike its inspiration, Wikipedia, which is wide in scope but not deep in detail, wiki.GIS.com aims to be deep, rather than wide. As a knowledge sharing platform, content at the wiki.GIS.com site is a useful resource for both experienced and beginning GIS users that is organized by category and includes a glossary and featured maps section. Sharing Ideas for Improving Software The ArcGIS Ideas portal, part of the ArcGIS Resource Centers, gives Esri software users a place for sharing ideas and collaborating to improve GIS. Ideas on enhancements to functionality, services, and workflows are submitted to the site. A search mechanism helps eliminate duplicate suggestions. The GIS community can refine these suggestions by commenting on them. All enhancement requests will continue to be logged. However, voting on suggestions posted on the ArcGIS Ideas portal will help those suggestions gain traction. The site can be accessed at http://ideas. arcgis.com or http://resources.arcgis.com/ content/more-resources. Participating at the site requires nothing more than a free Esri Global account. Go to www.esri.com or http://support.esri.com to create an Esri Global account. www.esri.com Master of Science in GIS at the University of Redlands O ur MS GIS Program is designed for an audience of professionals seeking to improve their knowledge of the analysis and management of geographic information. We offer both a full-time and a part-time residential program. Within the University’s interdisciplinary learning environment, students have an unparalleled opportunity to interact personally not only with University faculty, staff, and students from other programs, but also with the many talented professionals at the world’s leading GIS company, Esri, located in close proximity to the University. The University of Redlands, founded in 1907, is a fully-accredited, liberal arts and sciences university. This intensive, international learning environment ensures a global context of relevance to students from around the world. Graduates of this program can become GIS practitioners prepared for positions such as project managers, applications specialists, and applications software development team members. For information call (909) 748-8128 or visit www.msgis.redlands.edu ArcUser Summer 2010 59