DSrupted: Brad Parler On Firing First Shot In Content Revolution July 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes Brad Parler has turned the typically bland business of corporate communications on its ears with a content programming model at his workplace – the online retailer Blinds.com – that actually makes people want to look, and keep looking. Instead of text and number lists of performance indicators or employee of the month photos, Parler shot, …
DSE Extends 2016 Speaker Deadline July 7, 2015 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Expo has extended its deadline for speaker proposals for the 2016 educational conference to the end of this week. The trade show says proposals should align with a set of defined learning tracks: Digital Signage Fundamentals Creative Agencies Pro AV/IT Systems Integrators DOOH Network Operators End Users — Content University End Users — Retail …
ICX Association Hands Out Its First Excellence Awards July 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes I’ve heard some positive reviews coming out of the Interactive Customer Experience Association’s event in Chicago earlier this week – with loads of end-users and supplier/vendors limited to those that had some tie through sponsorship or awards to the event. If I read the tweets right, it was sold out. The ICX Association is the new …
Liveposter’s Martin Porter Rounds Out Terrific DSrupted Line-up June 30, 2015 by Dave Haynes I’m very pleased to say the line-up is now fully set for DSrupted, which is set for Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’ve got a great line-up and a big highlight, I suspect, will be a talk by Martin Porter, Senior VP and Group Director for Posterscope, one of the biggest digital OOH agencies out there. …
Why I’m Going To InfoComm: Guy Tonti, Unified Brand June 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes I’m looking forward to catching up with Guy Tonti, who is leaving the dry heat of Phoenix and Sedona (he has an amazing weekend place) for the steam bath heat of Orlando next week, to walk the trade show floor at InfoComm. Tonti is the President of Unified Brand, a Phoenix-based company that does customized TV channels for …
Why I’m Going To InfoComm: Gajendra Ratnavel, L Squared June 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes L Squared is a busy digital signage software and solutions provider up my way in the Toronto area. CEO Gajendra Ratnavel will take a break next week and head down to Orlando for InfoComm. As part of a running series from readers, here’s why this guy goes … How many years have you been going …
Four Winds Plans Forward Digital Experience Conference For Fall 2015 June 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes Denver-based Four Winds Interactive sent me an invite and details on something called Forward, The Digital Experience Conference – a new event it is putting together for this fall in the mile-high city. I’ve been to conferences organized or structured around vendors, and they can tend to be very long days hearing more and more and …
InfoComm Booth Profile: Philips June 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s what Philips has to say about its InfoComm 2015 trade show plans, via North America Marketing Manager Stephen Shao: 1 – Why do people going to InfoComm need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? InfoComm attendees should come by the Philips booth (#4689) because we’re premiering some really cool …
Why I’m Going To InfoComm: Colleen Hamilton, Art Of Context June 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes Colleen Hamilton, one of the principal’s behind the digital wayfinding/directory management software firm and consultancy Art of Context, sent along her note on why she’s getting on a plane to Orlando in a couple of weeks. 1 – How many years have you been going to InfoComm? This is my first trip to InfoComm. I …
Projects: The Projection-Mapped Dead Sea Scrolls June 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes LA’s California Science Center used a running exhibit on the Dead Sea Scroll as the visual theme for its big fundraising evening, the Discovery Ball – using a massive projection mapping set-up to make a vast screen that had to work its way around things like dangling airplanes. The set-up used 14 Christie projectors and was pulled together by …
