When safe trumps best in digital signage software June 8, 2010 by Dave HaynesA couple of things struck me yesterday during the first day of the Strategy Institute’s digital signage technology conference. Gabriel Tullier runs the student and staff-facing digital screen network for Palm Beach Atlantic University, and he explained in considerable detail the process the Florida school went through to make its software decision. It was very …
Calling A Digital Signage Mixer Audible June 8, 2010 by Dave HaynesOk, game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals is on Wednesday night at 5 local in Lost Wages, where I have set up the western HQ of Sixteen:Nine. I have had several people asking where the digital signage mixer was, and my brilliant answer has so far been, “I dunno…” Well, it is a pretty …
Day One – Strategy Institute June 8, 2010 by Dave HaynesFirst some whining. Lordy it is hot here. With that out of the way, I can tell you about Day One at the Strategy Institute’s Digital Signage Technology Summit. I am not going to write a bunch about it because I didn’t learn a whole bunch, and if you are a regular reader, you also …
Strategy institute: UCLA and emergency management June 7, 2010 by Dave Haynes“If you don’t have good policy and design, don’t even get started,” says David Burns, whos run the emergency management program at UCLA. A former paramedic, he runs a multi-headed communications beast across the giant campus – from sms, email, and sirens to indoor LED boards. He doesn’t do many flat panels because the cost …
MIT Media Lab presenting at Strategy Institute event in LV Monday June 7, 2010 by Dave HaynesYes, I am alive. I have been in Las Vegas since late Tuesday for meetings and then, come the morning, the Strategy Institute conference (and then InfoComm). I rented a car for the first time here (since I stuck around through the weekend) and had the bright idea of going hiking in 107F heat. Let’s …
NEC's digital signage software now free, to anyone June 1, 2010 by Dave HaynesNEC Displays made an announcement this morning that will likely make a number of people in the software start-up side of this industry get up to find a very large coffee. Or drink. The Chicago-based company is now making its hosted digital signage software solution available free of charge to anyone, regardless of whether they …
AV gearheads, and me, getting set for InfoComm May 28, 2010 by Dave HaynesI’m starting to do my planning and scheduling for InfoComm, which is just a week and a half out now. It’s about the biggest show of the year for the panel, projector and AV integrator guys in this digital signage sector – an event aimed more at the propellerhead and arms and legs guys than …
Show Me The Digital Signage Money Summit Back On May 24, 2010 by Dave HaynesOne of the more popular and successful Strategy Institute conferences the company does on this sector is the one on investors, probably because raising money is anything but easy. The 5th annual Digital Signage Investor Conference has been announced for Oct. 5-6 in New York, this time moving up from the Wall Street area and …
Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital turns on multilingual wayfinding (yay!) May 18, 2010 by Dave HaynesFor two or three years now I have been blabbering on with people about the opportunity hospitals present to use screens in a meaningful way, and it finally looks like someone is doing it. There are likely others, but this is the first install I know of that uses interactive screens in hospital lobbies to …
The Screen sets first US DOOH event for June in NYC May 17, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe guys behind The Screen in the UK – driven by Digital View and a few others, I think – has been doing events in London for a few years now and next month jumps the pond for its first North American event – a morning event on June 22nd done in collaboration with the …