In this issue, you'll read:
More than 60 Communities ask for See City
NewCom Speaks to GIS Users & Municipal Facility Managers
See you at Upcoming Events
NewCom's GIS Team
The NewCom Promise

More than 60 Communities ask for See City

City Clerks, City Administrators, Mayors, Facility Managers, and Council members from more than 60 communities have requested a presentation of NewCom's See City GIS management suite. And that is the value of GIS and See City: The powerful and flexible platform meets the needs of everyone who manages any municipal activity. With See City you needn't be a GIS expert, NewCom will develop the underlying map and linked data for you, and then you and other city personnel use the See City Suite of desktop tools to manage your city and all its assets. For details about how See City Suite can work for you, visit See City Suite via the web, e-mail or contact a GIS Team member at 1-800-626-6234.

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NewCom Speaks to GIS Users & Municipal Facility Managers

Recently NewCom representatives Brandon Haas and Jim Petro presented Harnessing the Power of GIS to the Eastern Iowa GIS User's Group and Using GIS for Utility Mapping to members of IAMU at the Annual Water & Waste Water Training Workshop. If you would like a copy of the presentations, please click here and request a CD or call 1-800-626-6234.

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See you at Upcoming Events

SeeCity Users Group September 13, Wednesday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. DMACC West Campus All SeeCity Owners are encouraged to attend the first SeeCity User Group meeting to be held Wednesday, September 13, at the DMACC West Campus in West Des Moines. The session begins at 11:00 a.m. and features a "hands-on" seminar in the PC lab, along with demonstrations and group discussions. Lunch will be provided. Please register by August 31 to reserve your space. You may register online, or contact Art Hutzler at 800-626-6234 or click here to send an email and include your first and last name, title, city/company, address, telephone number, and email address. For easy registration, please use the on-line form. Please sign-up today!

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NewCom's GIS Team

Brandon Haas, Director of Applications Development (bhaas@gisgroupinc.com) Formerly GIS Application Developer, City of Ames. Iowa, B.S.Cpe.E., Iowa State University Art Hutzler, Vice President (ahutzler@gisgroupinc.com) Formerly President, INT Communications; Senior VP, Heritage Communications; VP Engineering, Crown Media; Cable Engineering Dir., Foxtel. B.S.E.E., Duke University; M.S.E., University of Florida Dana McCarthy, Director of Marketing (dmccarthy@gisgroupinc.com) Formerly Marketing Communications Director, NCMIC Group, Downtown Des Moines Alliance, Junior Achievement of Central Iowa, Iowa Department of Economic Development. B.A., Drake University Jim Petro, President (jpetro@gisgroupinc.com) Formerly Director of OSP, McLeodUSA; Senior VP of Engineering, New Heritage Associates; VP of Engineering, Heritage Communications; Director of Engineering, Rollins Communications. B.S.E.E., University of New Haven; Charter Member, CableLabs, Senior Member, Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers

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The NewCom Promise

NewCom's origins are rooted in telecommunications - over the course of 30 years, NewCom's senior associates together have engineered and managed more than 200,000 miles of OSP for cable television operators and telephone companies.

Additionally, the NewCom team managed the conversion of more than 30,000 miles of utility plant documentation to an enterprise Geographical Information System (GIS) that streamlined the operational, management, and marketing functions of a nationwide telephone company. Moving from the first versions of digital documentation to the current advanced versions of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), NewCom has continually incorporated the ever-evolving spatial technology into its business operation.

By leveraging our core competency of digital documentation of overland facilities, using a GIS land base, we now offer local government an inexpensive entry to documentation and management of critical infrastructure information. This advanced technology is available to cities and towns that have a need for documentation and mapping but may not have the resources to do so.

The NewCom experts are respected, sought after, innovative resources in the geospatial technology industry. Because of time in the 'trenches,' it is understood throughout the organization that unfulfilled commitments by contractors lose money and can hurt a customer's reputation and future business. For that reason, it is NewCom's goal and promise to demonstrate that we are honest in every way, which gives you freedom to focus on service delivery and trust that NewCom will meet its commitments.

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