Inside Secrets For Making Great Digital Signage Content October 18, 2016 by Dina Townsend Guest Post: Linda Hofflander, Skykit I’ve seen some really bad digital signage content in my 15+ years in the digital signage business. I’ve seen signage using long bullet-point lists on default PowerPoint themes. I’ve seen neon yellow text on a royal blue background, so bright it made my eyes hurt. I’ve seen low resolution images …
Webinar: Why World’s Largest Digital Signage Networks Use Linux October 17, 2016 by Super User On Wednesday, noon Eastern, I’m doing the third digital signage webinar in a series with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. This one’s on why Linux is the media player OS of choice for a pile of networks and CMS companies, and arguably the most active of those companies is BroadSign, which has about 50,000 …
Freshwater Digital Packages $125 Monthly For Turnkey Digital Signage Solution October 17, 2016 by Super User The digital signage business seems to inexorably going turnkey – with most vendors I chat with saying that’s the ask and end-users saying that’s how they want to see things play out. On a broad scale, that means integrators and the largest software firms are offering a full range of capabilities in-house or through sponsorships. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Kurt Dupont, PresentationPoint October 12, 2016 by Super User We’re talking PowerPoint this week, the presentation software that has usually been regarded with abject horror by people who’ve been around the digital signage industry for years. While using PowerPoint templates to generate slides for signage systems is the fast lane to mediocrity, that’s not what Belgium’s PresentationPoint does with its software. For the last couple …
UK Access Control Firm Adds Construction Site Digital Signage Offer October 11, 2016 by Super User In a hyper-competitive market like digital signage software, it’s important for most companies to choose a vertical market and go after it with focused products. Here’s an example of a company that isn’t really in the signage software business, but has nonetheless developed a software product that is laser-focused on a vertical industry – in …
If You’re Hearing Digital Signage Software Pitches, Get A Nerd In The Room October 7, 2016 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage Here’s some very simple, experienced advice for anyone looking at starting a large digital signage network: get a nerd in the room when you’re talking to the people who sell digital signage software. That nerd will filter the bullshit. And trust me, there’s a lot of bullshit to …
Australia’s Coates Brings Its Digital Signage Offer For QSRs To North American Market October 3, 2016 by Super User It’s a big reach for an Australian company to establish a foothold in North America, particularly in a hyper-crowded market like digital signage. But that’s what a Sydney-based company called Coates is doing, with aims at building up a client list in the QSR business. The company opened its US headquarters last week in Chicago …
Top 10 Digital Signage Sales Pitches To Call B.S. On October 3, 2016 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage Some 16 years spent running corporate networks of all sizes has taught me a few things about content management software and the people behind those products. I’ve learned there’s some good stuff. Not perfect, but good. And I’ve learned there’s a lot of crap. I mean A LOT. …
All Digital Signage Player Software Is Not Created Equal September 28, 2016 by Tomer Mann Guest Post: Jeffrey Weitzman, Navori Is all digital signage player software created equal? No. Probably 90% of the digital signage player software options on the market are based on interpreted languages, or web-based technologies. As the name implies, these languages can’t be executed directly and must to go through a software interpreter. This method is …
3+ Options For Using WordPress As A Digital Signage Platform September 19, 2016 by Super User If you run a website or blog, there’s a pretty good chance you have some exposure to WordPress, the open source online publishing platform used by 60 million-plus of companies, organizations and individuals. This site runs on WordPress, for example. It’s a powerful tool with a vast developer community that feeds into it, developing templates …
