5 Reasons Digital Signage Is Best for Internal Communications February 6, 2017 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Danica Trapara, Rise Vision As companies grow, it’s common for leaders to feel like they’ve lost touch with their employees or can’t keep internal messages organized and in control. It’s at this point the benefit of internal communications is really seen. Internal communications teams are responsible for sharing a lot of different messages with …
Projects: Canadian Museum of Human Rights February 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here are some images showing the impressive digital visual implementation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The museum, which has a readily evident focus, first opened in Sept. 2014, but I THINK it has been steadily adding new galleries. I have tons of family roots in that city, but haven’t been back …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sean Keathley, Adrenaline February 1, 2017 by Dave Haynes This week, we’re talking experience design with Sean Keathley, the president of Adrenaline, an Atlanta-based company that’s in the business of coming up with the strategy, the content and technologies to make spaces like banks, stores and hospitals really work. Sean talks about the process involved in putting together a successful project, and he made …
6 Ways To Get People Looking At Your Digital Signs. January 13, 2017 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix You’ve spent untold resources – both time and money – getting your digital signage system up and running. But is it working? Do people look at your screens? One way to tell is with good ROI measurements in place. But there are a few surefire ways to attract and engage …
Enplug Partners To Build Mobile Social Gaming Into Digital Signage Platform January 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes A couple of LA companies have put together a partnership that would see mobile social gaming integrated with a digital signage platform’s offer. The deal gives clients running on Enplug’s cloud-based network the ability to participate in multiplayer tournaments with other gamers in public locations like restaurants, bars, gyms, retail stores, cafes, shopping malls, and …
Screenfeed Goes Beautifully Minimal With New Spectrum Weather Service December 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes Loyal 16:9 blog and podcast sponsor Screenfeed just announced a very nice new subscription weather service that takes advantage of HTML5 to be highly configurable and animated. Called Spectrum Weather, the service has a wonderfully minimalist look that flies in the face of ALL the cluttered, often cheap looking layouts that persist in the signage marketplace. …
Hungary’s Telenor Uses IntuiLab’s DIY Tools To Build Interactive Shopper Experiences December 13, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Hungarian wireless carrier Telenor has opened 13 digital concept stores this year that try to bridge how their customers work with them on mobile and on desktops, with interactive digital stations in the store. “We see that our customers start prefering our electronic channels over traditional customer service: they purchase their devices in our webshop, …
10 Questions To Ask When Buying Digital Signage Software December 8, 2016 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix So, your organization is considering a digital signage system, and you’ve been tasked with gathering info. Where to start? It’s a massive market and getting bigger all the time. Just typing in the term “digital signage” into Google results in 14 million results, and there are an awful lot of …
NBA Fan Zone Virtual Bobble Heads Find Their Way To OKC Highway Billboard December 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes The interactive touchscreen thing at sports venues is not new, but there’s a few things Philly-based MVP Interactive did with Cox Communications and the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder that are kinda cool: Fans make their personal, albeit virtual bobbleheads; A sensor called the vert jump mat measured how high fans can jump (vertical leap is kind of important …
If I Hear “Content Is King” One More Time, I’ll Scream November 28, 2016 by Jill Perardi Guest post: Vern Freedlander If I hear someone say “content is king” one more time, I am going to scream. There is nothing new about this statement. We all know content is important. It has driven the success of all media since our ancestors gathered around the fire to swap hunting stories, but for some …
