Pro hockey's opener takes over LED boards in Toronto's Dundas Square October 26, 2010 by Dave HaynesNOTE – 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 Dave HaynesBoston-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 Dave HaynesPreset’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 Dave HaynesNot 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 Dave HaynesMust 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 Dave HaynesIf 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 Dave HaynesIf 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 & …
DSE Industry Forum: My thoughts October 11, 2010 by Dave HaynesI have been off the grid for a few days because I was at a resort near San Diego that was the site of Digital Signage Expo’s first Industry Forum. I’ll go into some detail below, but in a word, it was terrific. Exponation, which runs DSE and was trying this format for the first …
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canucks October 11, 2010 by Dave HaynesIf it is difficult today raising your clients or suppliers in Canada today, it is because it is a national holiday. While Thanksgiving is Thursday in late November for Americans, it is the second Monday in October for Canadians. It does not have a place as high in the holiday pecking order as it does …
Toronto's Union Station Lit Up With 3-D Projections October 6, 2010 by Dave HaynesI’m a big fan of projection technology because it has the capability to make a project, well, big. Toronto has an annual contemporary art celebration around the city called Nuit Blanche, and a highlight of the most recent event was an all-night projected installation on the facade of the city’s main rail station. The digital …