Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Chief/Milestone AV February 17, 2013 by Super User If there is connective tissue in this goofy little sector, it’s the mount and rack companies with the gear that puts displays in place and makes deployments work, and who provide a lot of overall support for the industry. Companies like Chief are always investing directly in the trade shows, in educational work, and in …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks February 15, 2013 by Super User I got into the digital signage space coming on 14 years ago, and the first software company I dealt with was Capital Networks. We bought dozens of their servers and software and put them in racks in office tower closets and machine rooms to drive a signal over coax to screens in elevators. Capital wasn’t …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: NEC Display Solutions February 14, 2013 by Super User Next up in our profiles of Preset Group DSE 2013 Mixer Sponsors is NEC Display Solutions, the professional display and projection system giant from Japan, via suburban Chicago. President and CEO Pierre Richer was kind enough to A – throw some money at me to help with 2013 mixer costs, and B – field my five …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Multiband USA February 12, 2013 by Super User The Preset Mixer is now just two weeks out and it is time to start profiles of the great companies that kindly chipped in financial support to pull off an event for some 300 people. First up is Multiband, which in very broad strokes does digital signage deployments. I asked Matt Weldon, the National Sales Director of …
Mixer Name Badges Ready For Printer Next Week February 8, 2013 by Super User We did name badges for the first time at last year’s Preset Group DSE Mixer, and the general response was good. With more than 300 mingling in a crowd, there’s a lot of people to meet and names to remember. I’m pathetic with names, so these little social tools help. Like last year, there’s a …
DSE Extends Early-Bird Registration Discount February 5, 2013 by Super User Digital Signage Expo is just three weeks out (yikes!) but the trade show has extended its early bird registration discount out to the middle of next week, which means you can save a pile on the costs of some of the educational sessions. For instance, the Gold Passport that lets you attend your choice of four seminars, …
Fifteen Mixer Slots Open Up. Register Now! February 4, 2013 by Super User Preset Mixer FINAL from studio10productions on Vimeo. Technically the mixer is sold out, but there are always some people who have changes in plans and also a number of people who – for reasons escaping me – register themselves twice. Maybe because they’re not sure the ticketing worked first time around? Doesn’t matter. The net …
Preset Mixer Registration Stats January 28, 2013 by Super User Eventbrite’s ticket registration engine does a nice job of logging stats and spitting out analytics on events. The map shows where people are coming from, and the chart below tells you what people do. I didn’t know there were 22 consultants in this space. We could have a club! And secret handshakes! We’re now past …
Mixer Update: 30 Tickets Left January 28, 2013 by Super User There are just 30 slots left for the annual Preset Group Mixer. I thought they’d go on the weekend, but apparently people have lives. To grab one one of the last spots, register here: http://presetmixer2013.eventbrite.com/
DSE Sets Roster & Agenda For Ad-Based Network Conference January 25, 2013 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo people look to have developed a pretty solid set of speakers and panelists for its annual pre-trade show conference on digital out of home/digital place-based/whatever we’re calling it this week. There are a few “Oh, you again … ” people, but also some pretty interesting ones. Susan Danaher, President & CEO, …
