DSA-CETW Mixer Snapshots November 11, 2011 by Super User Digital Screenmedia Association president David Drain sent along snappies of the mixer they had Monday night ahead of CETW, which wrapped up earlier today. So, evidently the night had drinks and enough food you had to sit down and shovel. And a barbershop quartet … And a Republican presidential candidate. Nice.
Pix from LA’s DSE Huddle November 2, 2011 by Super User So, three time zones is probably a little too far to travel for an industry mixer, but geez, they were pouring pints of Shock Top! And there were wings! Ah well, I missed it by about 2,500 miles, but it looks like the Digital Signage Expo’s DSE Huddle mixer in LA went off well a …
Industry seminar and AM mixer set for mid-month in Toronto November 1, 2011 by Super User Taking the pint glass half-full perspective, I suppose it is good that I am so freakin’ busy that organizing a Toronto industry mixer remains stuck on the To Do list. It will get arranged at some point, I guess, though “When?” is a reasonable question. Any volunteers? It’s good then, that someone is getting the …
Minority Report’s visionary doing DSE 2012 keynote October 31, 2011 by Super User [vimeo id=”2229299″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Minority Report references in stories about digital signage tend to set my eyes rolling, but a guy named John Underkoffler gets a pass – since he’s the fellow who came up with the gesture-based user interface in that 2002 Spielberg sci-fi movie. Most of the oh-so-tiresome Minority Report references we hear and …
Immersive founder Sosa profiled by Fox Business October 28, 2011 by Super User Jason Sosa of the start-up Immersive Labs – which mashes up video analytics with other tools to do intelligent screen-based ad targeting – got a very nice, lengthy profile on Fox Business – both in video and online. I tried to embed the video, but is no workee for me. So click here. He gets …
Flanigan saddles up as content shop’s new VP Strategy October 26, 2011 by Super User Very nice to read that Saddle Ranch Digital has hired on Paul Flanigan as its VP of Content Strategy. Most people who sorta know Paul probably thought he was at Rise Vision, but that gig didn’t last as long as probably Paul or Rise Vision chair Byron Darlison envisioned. The Rise gig had biz dev …
Jobs: Pattison Outdoor looking for digital media leasing rep October 21, 2011 by Super User Pattison Outdoor Advertising, one of the big OOH companies in Canada, is looking for someone to handle developing business and managing those relationships with commercial property managers across the country, specifically as it relates to putting in digital media in the office tower elevators and concourses. Pattison has VERY quietly developed a network of …
rAVe: Blankensop to head DSF’s Legislative Committee October 20, 2011 by rave The Digital Signage Federation (DSF), the independent not-for-profit trade organization serving the digital signage industry, announced this month that Jeff Blankensop, director of business development for Peerless-AV, will chair its Legislative Committee. Blankensop said, “Our committee’s mission is first and foremost to advise and advocate on pieces of legislation that could potentially affect the digital …
Canadian ad giant Palmer helping guide Digital OOH firm October 13, 2011 by Super User I see a lot of press releases in a day and by necessity skip through them pretty quickly. It took a second pass through a releases late yesterday for me to pick up that, “Oh, it’s THAT Frank Palmer.” A Vancouver-Whistler company called RTOWN Communications – which has a hotel and resort in-room TV channel, …
RMG adds “business celebrity” Hayzlett to board October 12, 2011 by Super User RMG Networks have added something of a business celebrity – but one with some actual street cred – to its board of directors. Jeffrey Hayzlett is the author of the business bestseller The Mirror Test and a former CMO for Kodak. He is now CEO of The Hayzlett Group. “Jeffrey is a marketing celebrity and …
