Digital Signage Goes To College April 2, 2015 by Pat Hellberg Guest Post: Pat Hellberg, The Preset Group I have a son who is a junior in high school, which means in about a year and a half, he will be spending all of my money. College is coming … quickly. To find the right fit, we just spent spring break visiting schools in California. Our …
Five Reasons To Integrate Social Media & Digital Signage March 25, 2015 by Tim Griffin Guest Post: Ryan Gushue, ENPLUG How perfect of a match are digital signage and social media? Moving on from the outdated SMS text message integration, social media provides for a more personal, customizable way to get viewers involved through your display. Restaurants, hotels, and even office spaces are incorporating live social media into their content …
Parallel Employee Comms Conference At DSE Filling Up March 3, 2015 by Super User There’s an interesting parallel event going with DSE next week in Las Vegas – a full three-day conference on digital for employee communications. Called “Best Practices in Digital Employee Communications,” the event has people attending from companies like American Express, Victoria’s Secret, FedEx, St Jude Children’s Hospital, Disney, Virgin America, Kellogg’s and more attending. Industry vet …
Video: Responsive HTML5-Driven Menuboards Demo March 3, 2015 by Super User I think there’s a broad school of thought out there that HTML5 is interesting, but visually pretty limited in what it can do in digital signage. It indeed has its limits and is no video replacement, but its ability to drive motion and incorporate video makes it a big step up from the static presentations …
Captivate Tweaks Elevator Screen Designs; Drops Network In Branding March 2, 2015 by Super User The media company that has some 12,000 screens in elevators – making it among the largest digital sign deployments in North America – has monkeyed with its screen design and unveiled a new brand that drops the “Network” part of its name. The big shifts are a new time and temperature window design to sync the …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Screenfeed March 2, 2015 by Super User Jeremy Gavin, CEO, Screenfeed Booth C6 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Because we help increase viewership of screens and make them more relevant to our customers’ audience. We do this through licensed, high-quality, dynamic content that continuously updates to keep screens fresh and …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Enplug February 25, 2015 by Super User Ryan Gushue, Enplug DSE Booth: FT4 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Enplug will be announcing the release of their software development kit (SDK) for its open digital signage platform, which is applying the ‘app’ paradigm of mobile devices to digital signage. Enplug’s …
Why Update A MenuBoard Digitally When You Have Duct Tape Handy? February 20, 2015 by Super User This is just all kinds of awesome – as relayed by a regular reader. It’s a digital display used by a BBQ/pulled pork food concession at the big international auto show in Toronto. It appears the concession went out of stock on an item, and in the absence of having the tools or even …
Guy Proposes, Backed By C-Store Digital Sign February 17, 2015 by Super User A couple that frequents a Wawa c-store in Easton, PA likes the place so much one of them proposed to the other, right in the store, with a digital sign a central part of the big moment. “The couple frequent Wawa often (they say it’s one of their favorite places!), so they wanted to include …
Data Visualization: How The World Reacted To Kanye, Sia Et Al At Grammys February 10, 2015 by Super User I have been blabbering on for anyone that will listen about the possibilities good data visualization has for digital signage. I stress good because a lot of the visually interesting stuff I have seen falls down a little when you try to decode what the information is conveying. In other words, it can look cool, …
