BroadSign Losing Dan Parisien February 20, 2015 by Dave Haynes Dan Parisien got on a call with me this morning to let me know he’s leaving BroadSign this time next month – stepping down amicably after a 12-year rollercoaster run with the Montreal software company. He’s not planning to stay in digital signage, and intending after he leaves to sort out what he wants to do …
Guy Proposes, Backed By C-Store Digital Sign February 17, 2015 by Dave Haynes A couple that frequents a Wawa c-store in Easton, PA likes the place so much one of them proposed to the other, right in the store, with a digital sign a central part of the big moment. “The couple frequent Wawa often (they say it’s one of their favorite places!), so they wanted to include …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Freshwater Digital Media Partners February 16, 2015 by Dave Haynes Matt Downey, President, Freshwater Digital Media Partners Content Pavilion – Booth C3 Why do people going to DSE need to put Freshwater on their Must See list of booths? Because We Do Content! Freshwater focuses on the Digital Signage industry and continually strives to deliver smart, high quality custom creative content that is reasonably priced. …
Fire Recovery Fund For DS Vets Passes 4K But More Needed February 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes The fire relief crowdfunding campaign put together by a daughter of well-known and much-liked industry vets David and Jill Miller has passed the $4K point, but that’s less than half of what Hailey Miller is trying to raise for Mom and Dad. The two were among scores of residents who were wiped out by a …
Mixer Tickets Moving Nicely – More Than Half Are Gone February 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes If I factor in sponsor tickets that I set aside, the Preset Group DSE Mixer on March 10th is more than 50% sold out, a few hours after the tickets went up. For the first 90 minutes or so we were doing almost a ticket a minute. That calmed down after the usual opening rush, …
Industry Vets Jill & David Miller Escape Huge NJ Apartment Fire January 24, 2015 by Dave Haynes If you have been around digital signage for a bunch of years it is very likely that you know Jill or David Miller, or possibly both of them. You might know them best through the Digital Signage Group, a Seattle-area consultancy and reseller that was doing things like webinars years before most companies in this space …
Back At World HQ/Live Bait Shop December 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes About 23 hours after I got on the shuttle at a Seoul Hyatt for the start of ICN-YVR-YYZ, I fell in the door last night at home, 14 time zones ahead of where I started. After about nine hours of pillow time I am vertical again, and reasonably coherent. Hopefully that’s it for 2014 travels, …
DPAA, CEW, Ad:Tech, Xlab Impressions November 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes I kinda fell in the door this morning at 1:15 after getting back from New York City via Buffalo, after three hectic days in the city. I usually like to write a wrap-up focused on an event, but I can’t honestly say I spent enough time at some of them to provide much color commentary …
New Scholarship Fund For Young Women Honors DSE/DSF’s Wolff September 23, 2014 by Dave Haynes Anyone vaguely on the media side of this business – whether writing or looking for coverage – knows Geri Wolff, who runs communications both for Digital Signage Expo and the Digital Signage Federation. Terrific woman, and always ready with a big hug when I stick my head in the press room each year at DSE. …
DSrupted Is Next Week, And Strangely In Control September 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes Doing mixers for as many as 400 people invariably taught me a few things about organization and sweating the little details, and as a result, I’m pretty calm about where planning sits for next week’s DSrupted conference in Toronto. Big, bad windy and wet weather blew through town last night so I plopped all the …
