{"id":976,"date":"2012-06-30T17:11:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/?p=976"},"modified":"2012-06-30T17:11:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:11:52","slug":"esri-insider-the-first-year","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/esri-insider-the-first-year","title":{"rendered":"Esri Insider: The First Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the one year anniversary of the Esri Insider blog launch.  It all started on June 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 2011, with a simple little <a href=\"..\/2011\/06\/30\/try-our-new-ocean-basemap\/\">post<\/a> about our (then) new Ocean Basemap.  Since then, we\u2019ve brought you more than 30 posts about Esri\u2019s vision, technology trends, and other important and entertaining topics for geospatial professionals.<br \/>\nIn terms of page views, the top 5 most popular posts to date have been:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/2011\/10\/03\/the-future-looks-bright-for-spatial-thinkers\/\">The Future Looks Bright for Spatial Thinkers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/2012\/02\/27\/gis-and-the-city-2-0\/\">GIS and The City 2.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/2011\/10\/07\/the-intersection-of-gis-and-gaming\/\">The Intersection of GIS and Gaming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/2012\/04\/06\/gis-without-the-box\/\">GIS without the Box<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/2011\/12\/16\/telling-stories-with-maps\/\">Telling Stories with Maps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What was your favorite post?  <a href=\"mailto:insiderblog@esri.com\">And what would you like us to discuss next?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[209772,241],"class_list":["post-976","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-insider","tag-esri","tag-gis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Esri Insider: The First Year<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/esri-insider-the-first-year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Esri Insider: The First Year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today marks the one year anniversary of the Esri Insider blog launch. 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