Framework And Starting Point
•The United Nations Millennium Development Goals provide a good framework because these goals that address poverty, health, education, and others can all benefit by the spatial perspective and spatial analysis through GIS. (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/).
•EsriMap Books: http://www.esri.com/mapmuseum.
•Trade journals, and to skim GIS blogs, Facebook pages, and mine for ideas on GIS web news services such as Directions Magazine, GIS User, GIS Café, and others.