While the official opening of the ESRI User Conference is still a couple of days away, several other concurrent conferences have already started. At the opening plenary of the 2009 ESRI Education User Conference Bern Szukalski delivered a 30-minute presentation covering some of the new features of ArcGIS 9.3.1, ArcGIS Online, and an overview of the upcoming new release of ArcGIS Explorer. Here's a few highlights of what he showed.

Bern started off with ArcGIS Desktop, and opened a mostly empty map. He explained what he needed was additional basemap information; he was looking for topographic maps.

Read the full post at the AGX Blog.