Savannah From Savannah Earns DSF Bursary For Women March 28, 2016 by Super User Savannah from Savannah has won the first Geri Wolff Scholarship Award handed out by the Digital Signage Federation – an effort to encourage more young women to get into the industry. Savannah McNulty, a third-year graphic design student at the Savannah College Art & Design in Georgia, gets $2,000 from the fund – which was …
Christie Hires Blackberry’s Ex Head Of Innovation To Run Software Team March 23, 2016 by Super User It’s very logical to think of Christie as a display hardware company, but if you stop and think about it, you realize it takes solid software to make those projectors and display cubes and LCDs and LEDs all run properly. The company has announced it has hired an ex-Blackberry guy to be its director of solutions software. …
Pix: Preset Group DSE 2016 Mixer In Las Vegas March 22, 2016 by Super User Ok, back at World HQ after DSE and a mini-vacation three hours northeast of Vegas ay Zion National Park. One word review: Amazing. I arranged for a local guy to run around at the mixer last week and grab shots of the venue and people. He was no pro, but he was family of a …
Preset Mixer Update: Name Badges Printed And In February 17, 2016 by Super User The name badges for the sold-out Preset Mixer have arrived, and next we’ll just slap on all the names and companies labels my little Dymo printer has spat out. In past years, we’ve handed out drink tickets, which has turned into a bit of a problem controlling how many tickets were out there and arbitrating …
Video: ISE 2016 Interview With DailyDOOH February 12, 2016 by Super User Here’s a video (below) of the chat I had the other day with Adrian Cotterill, who I found out also has a blog about digital signage, called DailyDOOH. Who knew? He did a stack of interviews at a micro-set sput together at the head of the NEC booth at ISE. That’s a big NEC fine pixel …
Sixteen:Nine Turns 10 February 5, 2016 by Super User I started this blog 10 years ago today. Thank you readers and subscribers. The numbers have really climbed in the past two years as the industry has started to mature and settle in. Thank you to the guest writers who help keep 16:9 fresh with new ideas and perspectives. More guest posts are always welcomed. …
DSF Names MGM’s Dearborn As New Chairman; Adds To Board January 22, 2016 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has announced its 2016 executives, as well as the elected broad of directors. Randy Dearborn, who runs MGM Resorts International’s many different digital sign installs, is the 2016 Chairman and Ken Goldberg, CEO of Real Digital Media, has been sent to the sunny porch out back where they put past chairmans. …
Worth Watching: Select Videos Up From Four Winds’ Forward Conference January 6, 2016 by Super User Four Winds Interactive did a very nice, polished job last fall with Forward, a two-day conference in hometown Denver that went well beyond the typical software company user conference. It was education instead of indoctrination. I went to it, and learned a lot more than what was on the company’s product roadmap. The marketing department put …
A Time For Thanks December 22, 2015 by Super User Unless something pretty big happens, this will be it for posts for a few days. The kids are coming home, and it’s time to slow down and enjoy all the trappings and indulgences of Christmas. It’s also a good time to say some Thank Yous as the year winds down. Thank You to all the …
Dusho Signs On As Exec With Smart City Digital OOH Play CIVIQ October 20, 2015 by Super User I don’t normally write about new hires at companies because the stats show readers generally (and sometimes profoundly) don’t care, but news of one of the better known guys in the signage business getting back in the spotlight is worth some attention. Former BroadSign CEO Brian Dusho has been hired by CIVIQ Smartscapes to head its Digital Out …
