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 …
Everything Not To Do In Digital Signage Design, In One Gloriously Bad Pic September 29, 2016 by Super User I’ve seen worse. But this is pretty bad. If you are reading this and don’t see the problems … Too many zones Fonts are too small to read Busy background White text on white background Duelling visuals Just because the software allows you to do all these things in a layout, doesn’t mean it’s therefore …
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 …
Stars Are In Toronto For TIFF, While Commuters Take Subway And Watch Tuff September 8, 2016 by Super User For the 10th year running, digital signage screens in Toronto’s subway system are being used as the medium for a film festival that pretty much coincides with the glitzy, celebrity-riddled Toronto International Film Festival. The Toronto Urban Film Festival (or TUFF) is running 72 films from 36 countries on screens owned and operated on commuter …
Projects: Canada’s Busiest Highways Get Interactive At Travel Centre Stops September 6, 2016 by Super User If you’ve even driven the 401 highway that runs up from Detroit through Toronto and almost to Montreal, you’ll have been thankful there’s a set of travel centres that provide the essentials to motoring: gas, coffee and clean restrooms. About 500,000 people a day pull in to these centres across the province. There are 23 …
Why And How To Engage The Bosses With Digital Signage September 2, 2016 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix You’ve hired some of the best and brightest people around to help you run your company. Use your corporate digital signage solution to support, encourage and inspire them as they steer your organization to success. Seven Traits to Thrive Harvard Business Review identified seven traits that companies most need in …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jim Nista, Insteo August 31, 2016 by Super User Jim Nista and I have had lotsa long, interesting talks over trade show cocktails in Las Vegas or Orlando about the state of the industry and what needs to happen, particularly as it relates to content. Unfortunately … or perhaps fortunately, when I really think about it (hic) … they were not recorded. But the …
Experiential Design and Data Visualization: The Business Shift To Big Data August 24, 2016 by Rebecca Downden Guest Post: Hoa Tong, Array Interactive If you’ve been keeping current with the latest business industry practices the last decade, you’ve probably seen that many significant company decisions today affecting time, money, and outcome are no longer made based solely on executive counsel, trends, or even past experiences. They’re now made based on pure data …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Brian Fitzpatrick, Revel Media Group August 24, 2016 by Super User Every so often I bump into a company that’s stayed well out of the spotlight, kept its collective heads down, and built up a thriving business – while most of the industry was unaware the company even existed. Consider Revel Media Group, which is based in the greater Salt Lake City area. Revel is a digital signage …
