CETW Proceeding As Planned November 1, 2012 by Dave Haynes Lawrence Dvorchik, the longtime organizer of Customer Engagement Technology World (aka CETW) traded emails with me yesterday, after I guessed correctly that people in some corners were all worked up about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the trade show planned for the middle of next week in New York. In the wake of starting …
Stop Spreading The News; I’m Not Leaving Today October 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes Purely because I let people know I was going, and even had flights booked weeks and weeks ago, I’m selfishly using my creaky little soap box to let said people know I am NOT in New York this week for all the various conferences and cocktail parties for and about digital place-based media stuff. Briefly, …
Preset Mixer 2013 Taking Shape (inc. video) July 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes It is only 184 sleeps (or something, screw the necessary math work) until the 2013 Preset Group Mixer in Lost Wages. More traditionally, I would wake up in a cold sweat sometime in January and realize, “Oh yeah, I should start organizing this thing.” For a change, I am getting myself organized way in advance, …
DSA Announces Plans To Get Members High July 17, 2012 by Dave Haynes The Digital Screenmedia Association is holding a mixer and education evening in a few weeks on the 99th floor of the Willis Tower – long known as the Sears Tower – in Chicago. The August 7 session will have a brief education program on the topic of “converging channels to create improved customer experiences” – …
Tech Start-Ups Struggle With Marketing July 11, 2012 by Dave Haynes I belong to a local technology networking organization called Silicon Halton, which has monthly meet-ups at pubs (which partially, but not entirely, explains my involvement). I’ve not attended many sessions because for some reason I’m usually out of town on business those nights. But … I did finally get out to one last night. First, …
2012 DS Investor Conference Agenda Now Out July 10, 2012 by Dave Haynes The agenda has now been bedded down for the Digital Signage Investor Conference in New York in mid-October. There are some head-scratchers, but also some folks I’ll be eager to hear from at what will be the 7th edition of the Strategy Institute event, which has been pulled together with the guidance and advice of …
Canada 3.0 Moves From Small Town To Big City July 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes I quite liked the Canada 3.0 digital media forum and trade show I went to this spring, though I wondered what on Earth it was doing in a small town’s recreation centre. So were some others, apparently. Stratford is a beautiful little town (and known widely for its Shakespeare theatre), and the venue and people …
InfoComm Crowd Up 4% Over 2011 June 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes Estimating crowds is not among my meagre set of skills, so any impression that I had that InfoComm didn’t seem overly busy had to be balanced out by that. Turns out, crowds were in fact up over last year. The just-finished InfoComm 2012 in Las Vegas saw 34,268 attendees, up four percent over a year earlier …
InfoComm 2012 Notes And Impressions June 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes I banged out these notes while somewhere over Nebraska, heading back after a pretty quick tour through the InfoComm show floor. Ideally, two days is enough time, but I only had one free day to run around. Overall, floor traffic did not seem as heavy as past years, but who knows if my read is …
InfoComm12: DisplaySearch Conference Notes June 12, 2012 by Dave Haynes No WiFi, sigh, at the Display Search conference that runs as part of the lead-up to InfoComm here in the blast furnace that is Las Vegas in June. That’s about my only whine, however. Good event. Not clogged with people, but maybe 100 or so and similar to last year. But the speakers were generally …
