DSF skeds pre-DSE golf tourney October 27, 2010 by Super UserThe Digital Signage Federation is organizing a golf day on the Monday of Digital Signage Expo week in Lost Wages. The event runs on Feb. 21st, a day ahead of the DSE’s pre-conference programming. It is a shot-gun start mid-morning at TPC Las Vegas, which I will assume is really really hard. I also assume …
DPAA summit opens, some encouraging signs October 27, 2010 by Super UserThe DPAA’s media summit is on in NYC and there are some encouraging signals from the event. First, the novelty of a year ago of tweeting from events is now getting to be the norm. Graeme Spicer of NEC and Stu Armstrong of EnQii are both tweeting, as are others I expect. Use the hash …
DPAA's Media Summit kicks off this AM October 27, 2010 by Super UserThe DPAA’s 2010 Digital Media Summit is on all today in NYC, and we hope the event draws a strong agency/media crowd. It would be a BIG stretch to say the event was well-promoted in the digital signage and DOOH sector, but that’s not the crowd that needs to be at this thing anyway. It …
Pro hockey's opener takes over LED boards in Toronto's Dundas Square October 26, 2010 by Super UserNOTE – Aaron Campus is an industry friend. Over lunch the other day, he related his recent experiences with a live event that used digital signage on giant LED boards. I asked if he’d do me a favour and write it up. The NHL started its season in style this year on October 7th with …
Squash goes interactive with Aerva October 25, 2010 by Super UserBoston-based Aerva does a nice newsletter and the latest one in my Inbox has a piece about the program it put together last month at the city’s historic Symphony Hall – the World Squash Champions Challenge. Four of the top squash players in the world played on a state-of-the-art glass court inside the symphone, in front …
Digital signage video had big footprint at recent World Basketball Fest in NYC October 20, 2010 by Super UserPreset’s Pat Hellberg was just a touch busy this summer, working on the World Basketball Festival. His alma mater Nike, which organized the event in New York, engaged Pat to be executive producer for some 50 video piece pulled together in three months by crews in NY, LA and Portland/Beaverton. The content played all over …
Sighting: Wrap-up from last week's SGIA show October 19, 2010 by Super UserNot everyone uses Twitter so I thought it might be helpful to point people at a good wrap-up report from last week’s Specialty Graphics and Imaging Association (SGIA) Expo in Lost Wages, which featured for the first time a digital signage area put together by the Digital Screenmedia Association. Symon’s Steve Gurley does a good …
CETW announces education plans for next month in NYC October 19, 2010 by Super UserMust be my trade show news day … On the heels of the DSE lunch and learn, we have word of Customer Engagement Technology World’s education plans for the Javits Center in New York in 2-3 weeks. CETW announced today the launch of an all-new educational program for its fall event (November 10-11, 2010, New …
Digital Signage Expo's lunch-and-learns back on for 2011 October 19, 2010 by Super UserIf you have been been to DSE in the past you may have noticed a sectioned-off area where, at lunch time, groups were sitting around attentively listening to one person talk – instead of doing the more typical nutritional lunch break work of shoveling down a nasty hot dog or two out in the north …
Digital Signage Expo's Awards Program Now Taking Entries For 2011 October 14, 2010 by Super UserIf you are interested in submitting your work to Digital Signage Expo’s 7th Annual APEX & Content Awards you now have about four weeks to get it all together. The submissions deadline is Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. Submission forms are available at: http://www.digitalsignageexpo.net/DigitalSignageExpo/AwardsDinner.aspx. The APEX Awards categories include: Arts, Entertainment & Recreation; Business, Industry & …
