InfoComm Impressions – Day One June 10, 2010 by Super UserThe big AV gadget show is on here in Las Vegas, with a few days of seminars for that crowd followed by a three day exhibit hall. This show gets something like 30,000 and it is a must for people who deploy screens. I don’t have a bunch of solid impressions just yet because my …
When safe trumps best in digital signage software June 8, 2010 by Super UserA couple of things struck me yesterday during the first day of the Strategy Institute’s digital signage technology conference. Gabriel Tullier runs the student and staff-facing digital screen network for Palm Beach Atlantic University, and he explained in considerable detail the process the Florida school went through to make its software decision. It was very …
Calling A Digital Signage Mixer Audible June 8, 2010 by Super UserOk, game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals is on Wednesday night at 5 local in Lost Wages, where I have set up the western HQ of Sixteen:Nine. I have had several people asking where the digital signage mixer was, and my brilliant answer has so far been, “I dunno…” Well, it is a pretty …
Day One – Strategy Institute June 8, 2010 by Super UserFirst some whining. Lordy it is hot here. With that out of the way, I can tell you about Day One at the Strategy Institute’s Digital Signage Technology Summit. I am not going to write a bunch about it because I didn’t learn a whole bunch, and if you are a regular reader, you also …
Strategy institute: UCLA and emergency management June 7, 2010 by Super User“If you don’t have good policy and design, don’t even get started,” says David Burns, whos run the emergency management program at UCLA. A former paramedic, he runs a multi-headed communications beast across the giant campus – from sms, email, and sirens to indoor LED boards. He doesn’t do many flat panels because the cost …
MIT Media Lab presenting at Strategy Institute event in LV Monday June 7, 2010 by Super UserYes, I am alive. I have been in Las Vegas since late Tuesday for meetings and then, come the morning, the Strategy Institute conference (and then InfoComm). I rented a car for the first time here (since I stuck around through the weekend) and had the bright idea of going hiking in 107F heat. Let’s …
AV gearheads, and me, getting set for InfoComm May 28, 2010 by Super UserI’m starting to do my planning and scheduling for InfoComm, which is just a week and a half out now. It’s about the biggest show of the year for the panel, projector and AV integrator guys in this digital signage sector – an event aimed more at the propellerhead and arms and legs guys than …
Show Me The Digital Signage Money Summit Back On May 24, 2010 by Super UserOne of the more popular and successful Strategy Institute conferences the company does on this sector is the one on investors, probably because raising money is anything but easy. The 5th annual Digital Signage Investor Conference has been announced for Oct. 5-6 in New York, this time moving up from the Wall Street area and …
The Screen sets first US DOOH event for June in NYC May 17, 2010 by Super UserThe guys behind The Screen in the UK – driven by Digital View and a few others, I think – has been doing events in London for a few years now and next month jumps the pond for its first North American event – a morning event on June 22nd done in collaboration with the …
Media Post DOOH awards: And the winners are … May 14, 2010 by Super UserI don’t know if this is indicative of much, but I nonetheless find it interesting that virtually all of the winners of last night’s MediaPost Digital Out Of Home Awards are companies that would be considered part of the digital signage and DOOH sector, as in companies that show up at trade shows and conferences …
