Yay, I’m Finally Going To ISE October 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes With flights booked and lodgings sorted, I’m all set to finally go to Integrated Systems Europe 2016, which is billed as Europe’s biggest AV and systems integration show. Every January, I get emails asking if they’ll see me at ISE in Amsterdam, and every year I’ve said, “Nope.” This year, I’ll say, “Yup.” I’m not …
First CorpComm and EduComm Expos About Quality, Not Quantity October 6, 2015 by Dave Haynes The CorpComm Expo and EduComm Expo – both of them spin-offs from the mother ship Digital Signage Expo – were run for the first time last week in Atlanta, at the Georgia World Congress Center. I didn’t go, and was off all last week, so I sent a few emails around to get a sense of how …
Pix: Pre-DSrupted DSF Networking Event September 17, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a stack of pix from the Digital Signage Federation event at Yorkdale shopping centre on Tuesday night, courtesy of Stephanie Gutnik of BroadSign. There were roughly 50 people, who were broken up into teams of 4 to go on a signage scavenger hunt in the ritzy mall – noting everything from the excellent to the …
DSrupted 2015 Wrap-Up September 17, 2015 by Dave Haynes At roughly 4:30 Wednesday I informed the crowd at DSrupted we were done, that I was in bad need of a beer, and that if anyone else was he or she should follow me across the street to a sports bar. Many did, as we tipped a celebratory pint to what I think was a very well-received second …
DSrupted Is Just Two Sleeps Out – A Thank You To Sponsors September 14, 2015 by Dave Haynes We’re just two sleeps out from DSrupted now, and at least three of my five speakers are hopping on planes tomorrow to get here – as will a pile of people coming from as far away as Phoenix and Atlanta. We’ve passed last year’s attendance number and, as a result, will have a pretty full house. …
Four Winds Firms Up Speakers, Agenda For Next Month’s Forward Conference September 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes I checked in with Four Winds Interactive to ask how things are going with plans for the conference the software company is running next month in the company’s hometown city, Denver. Called Forward – the Digital Experience Conference, the event is designed to educate and inspire people who are grappling with the explosion of digital content and tech out there, and how to apply it …
Ticking All The DSrupted Boxes September 3, 2015 by Dave Haynes We’re now LESS than two weeks out from DSrupted 2015 in Toronto, and things are SOMEWHAT in control. Just confirmed catering, paid the AV guys and added a new stack of badges to what’s already been sorted and given attached lanyards. We’ve even got finished badges bundled in 10-packs and hanging up so they don’t …
DSrupted Speaker Preview: Brad Parler On Shaping Behavior With Great Content September 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes Brad Parler is coming up from Houston, Texas in a couple of weeks to talk at DSrupted.com about better, more effective content. Here’s a sneak peek at what he’ll be talking about at the Sept. 16th event – a shorter version from an interactive conference he spoke at recently, down in Houston. Brad Parler – …
DSrupted: The Future Is About Pixels Everywhere September 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes So much has happened on the software and computing side of the digital signage business in recent years that I think we tend to overlook how much has also happened on the display side. When I got into this business 16 years ago LCD panels were small and crazily expensive, and the big flat panels …
DSrupted: The Fabulous Parting Gifts Are Getting Sorted August 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes We’re 20 days out from DSrupted – yikes! – but things are well in hand, and we even have some of the fabulous parting gifts ready to go. Courtesy of returning sponsor Rise Vision, five attendees will be randomly drawn to win a Chromebox from Asus. Rise, as you probably know, has for many years …
