NanoLumens finalist in big US tech awards May 9, 2011 by Super UserNanoLumens has been selected as a finalist in the Breakthrough Technology category for the American Technology Awards, described as the only national “Best Of” awards recognizing all technology products and services throughout the U.S. Atlanta-based NanoLumens — which has gained a lot of attention and market traction for its lightweight, flexible displays — was selected …
DFW's AMA chapter running Digital OOH session next week May 6, 2011 by Super UserThis is nice to see … The Dallas-Forth Worth chapter of the American Marketing Association has organized a lunch and learn session next Friday on “The Evolution and Future of Digital Out-of-Home.” At the Studio Movie Grill in Dallas on May 13th, three experts with personal knowledge of the Digital Out Of Home craft will …
Next Toronto DS Mixer is Tuesday. Please Register! May 3, 2011 by Super UserWe are a week out from the next Toronto digital signage and digital out of home mixer. It is next Tuesday, May 10, at a bar in downtown Toronto. The event host this time around is RiseVision, and its master and commander Byron Darlison. We have 36 registered so far and I would really like …
17,000 people talking about signs this week … at a different show April 26, 2011 by Super UserHere’s something to think about … There are scores of companies and their staff attending the CETW show this week in San Francisco, talking about the more advanced aspects of the digital signage, digital OOH and interactive display sectors. Same week, there are 17,000 people in the sign industry wandering around the aisles of International …
CETW in San Fran: Not there, but if I was … April 26, 2011 by Super UserThe tail-end of one big RFP and the front-end of another one I am starting to pull together for a client means there’s no way I can take a few days off to get all the way west to San Francisco for Customer Engagement Technology World, which starts today or tomorrow, depending on what you …
signagelive now lets clients run platform in language of choice April 20, 2011 by Super UserNew digital signage software releases don’t get a lot of play here because once I start doing that, I am opting in on relaying an unending torrent of stuff. But …. now and then stuff comes along that’s a little different or important. UK-based signagelive (note: I do some writing for them and CEO Jason …
DSA announces industry excellence award winners April 18, 2011 by Super UserThe Digital Screenmedia Association has announced its inaugural Industry Excellence Award winners, honors intended to recognize the best digital signage, mobile and self-service kiosk technology deployments across a variety of vertical market segments. The list below lists the winners and, nicely, provides the backgrounders on what the projects were about and point to videos so you can …
Silos make selling Digital OOH at agencies tough: agency CEO April 18, 2011 by Super UserTim Hanlon, CEO of Velociter, a strategy and investment firm that is part of the Interpublic Group empire, was part of a power panel at last week’s Digital OOH forum in New York. The panel was focused on the agency perspective on Digital OOH and what was needed to drive more activity. While the others …
Putting up a screen does not make you a medium: agency CEO April 18, 2011 by Super UserLast week’s Digital OOH forum in New York, run by the trade publisher MediaPost, was a too-rare opportunity to get insights and candor from very senior agency people. I’ve been going through my notes and think it’s worthwhile to dig a little deeper into what some of them had to say. First up is Connie …
Digital OOH Forum: The method behind Target's interactive gaming area April 14, 2011 by Super UserTrevor Kaufman, the CEO of interactive firm Possible Worldwide, had a really interesting session at the MediaPost Digital OOH forum in New York on how his firm used web design ideas and a lot of methodical R&D to come up with a better way of selling gaming console releases in Target. What they came up …