Welcome to the GFIS Blog!


In this blog forest professionals around the world share their ideas and experiences on forest information management and sharing with the global forestry community. Besides the blog posts you can find GFIS workshop material here.

 

GFIS Newsletter



GFIS Newsletter released June 2011. Keep in up-to-date with the latest from the GFIS team.

Click the link below to view the Newsletter in a new tab.

https://www.gfis.net/blog/gfis/resource/images/newsletter.pdf

 



 
 

BIG thanks to all GFIS partners and users for 2010



The GFIS team would like to thank all information provider partners and users for their cooperation and contribution to a GFIS success story in 2010. Since the upgraded GFIS gateway was launched in August 2010, the gateway has got more and more new users - see a monthly usage of gfis.net below - and information provider partners - see GFIS information provider partners.

 

Monthly history of gfis.net in 2010

  Monthly usage of www.gfis.net in 2010 

 

Today there are over 250 information provider partners that maintain over 270 forest related RSS feeds from around the world linked to the GFIS search. The most popular information types are "news" and "publications". Users can find around 500 fresh news and 150 new publications weekly available via the GFIS gateway.

If you need more information about GFIS or would like to send us feedback, please feel free to do it via email to GFIS Coordinator <gfis_coordinator@iufro.org>

Thank you for your cooperation,

GFIS team

Eero Mikkola, Coordinator

Ho Sang Kang, Regional coordinator

Juha Hautakangas, Developer


 
 

How to Share Information on GFIS?


With the launch of the new GFIS gateway, ease of use for new information providers has been a top priority. With a little guidance, sharing and accessing information on GFIS is simple. To address some of the difficulties information providers have had with setting up their RSS feeds, the system now allows information provision of single items (e.g. an event, a news, etc.) via a web form.

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