NanoLumens’ Cope Honored As Atlanta’s Veteran Entrepreneur Of Year September 21, 2017 by Super User Congratulations to NanoLumens founder and CEO Rick Cope, who was named 2017 Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year this morning by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, in partnership with the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Cope was one of six business leaders cited across different categories, at an awards ceremony held at the Georgia Aquarium. “I am honored and humbled by …
Pat Hellberg, A Bottle of Cotes Du Rhone, And A Blender September 8, 2017 by Super User People who’ve been around the digital signage industry for a few years will know Pat Hellberg from his days starting and running Nike’s retail signage network, and then from his time as a partner, with me, in the Preset Group consultancy. We wound Preset down at the end of 2016 because Pat was in a …
GSTV Gets New CEO As DOOH Network Co-Founder Leider Moves On After 12 Years September 5, 2017 by Super User One of the larger and more well-established digital OOH networks in the U.S. has a new CEO for the first time – with Sean McCaffrey taking over Gas Station TV from CEO and co-founder David Leider. The company’s press release today says Leider is leaving after 12 years to start a new venture (no details provided …
DSF Opens Up Nominations For Two-Year Board Seats August 28, 2017 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has started accepting nominations for two-year seats on the volunteer organization’s Board of Directors, with the terms starting in the new year. DSF members can be nominated by other members, or just go ahead and nominate themselves, which sounds much easier. Candidates must be: Employed by a DSF Member; Willing to serve …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Kristin Russell, Arrow Intelligent Systems August 9, 2017 by Super User Kristin Russell jokes about Arrow being a massive company few people even know about – with $24 billion in annual sales and some 18,000 people walking around with Arrow on their business cards, in 90 countries. She runs Arrow Intelligent Systems, which does everything from design engineering and integration services to global logistics. One of the …
RDM Hires DSF Vice Chair Graham Out Of Longtime College Job August 2, 2017 by Super User As mentioned in the past, posts on new hires don’t tend to generate a lot of page views, which means readers don’t generally care about new sales people. But this one is noteworthy … Tampa Bay-area CMS software firm Real Digital Media has hired on Spencer Graham as Business Development Manager for Higher Education. Graham comes …
Toronto DSF Mixer Draws Big Crowd July 27, 2017 by Super User I don’t have a formal crowd count, but my sense is there had to be at least 100 people – possibly more – at last night’s Digital Signage Federation mixer in downtown Toronto. The event was at a new place right by the Rogers Centre (where the Blue Jays play) called The Rec Room. Really …
NEC Donates 2,000+ Displays To Charity Hospital Ship June 27, 2017 by Super User NEC Display Solutions of America has stepped up in a big way to indirectly help sick and injured people in some of the poorest places on the planet, making a gift-in-kind donation of more than 2,000 commercial-grade displays to Mercy Ships, an international faith-based organization that uses hospital ships to perform life-changing surgeries. NEC Display will …
DSF Sets Date, Location For Toronto Digital Signage Mixer On July 26 June 22, 2017 by Super User The DSF has set a date and place for a Toronto Meet & Greet mixer in late July, as well as a speaker. The event is July 26, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at The Rec Room, a new mega entertainment place-thingie that I believe is a product of Cineplex, the cinema chain. The invite says …
InfoComm 2017 – Sixteen:Nine v. DailyDOOH Video June 19, 2017 by Super User Here’s my chat with Adrian from DailyDOOH, at the NEC stand last week in Orlando. There is a full archive of his chats with various people here …
