WAND Adds Engels To Exec Team January 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes WAND Corporation has been working on the Point Of Sale side of the QSR and fast casual restaurant sector for a bunch of years, and more recently has started chasing and winning business in the natural line extension of digital menu boards. The Minneapolis-area company has now hired on a digital signage industry executive to …
Early Details: Preset Industry Mixer January 13, 2012 by Dave Haynes Three emails in the past 12 hours is a good enough signal for me that I need to update news about The Preset Group’s 2012 Digital Signage Industry Mixer in Las Vegas. First, yes, it’s on. The third edition of this event (4th if you count the 2009 edition in that weird flaming fire-pool and …
Hofflander Latest To Saddle Up January 3, 2012 by Dave Haynes Saddle Ranch Digital has hired industry consultant Linda Hofflander as Chief Strategy Officer for the content company. Hofflander signs on after a stint running her own consulting thing, called The Handa Group, and after stints with Wireless Ronin and John Ryan. She’s in Minneapolis and I assume that’s where she stays. From what I know of …
Raffi Vartian Hooks Up With signagelive January 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes This was done weeks ago, but the official word is now out that UK-based signagelive has hired on Raffi Vartian to build up the company’s business in North and South America. Raffi has been around the space for several years, first on the proximity marketing side with his own BlueTooth-based startup and then the last …
Congrats To Brian Ardinger, Dad Again December 22, 2011 by Dave Haynes Congratulations to Brian Ardinger, a Sr. VP at the software firm Nanonation and president of the Digital Screenmedia Association. He tweeted this afternoon about the birth today of his new son, Bodie Graeme, 8lbs, 20.5 inches. From digging around quickly online I see Bodie already has a big sister, Lily.
Lou Giacalone joins consulting ranks December 9, 2011 by Dave Haynes We welcome Lou Giacalone to the august and ever-building ranks of digital signage smarty-pants for hire. Portland-based TargetPath announced Thursday that Lou has signed on as Vice President, Digital Media Client Services for the consulting group, focused on developing new business and guiding existing clients on digital media strategy and technology. Giacalone will work out …
On road, again December 5, 2011 by Dave Haynes In New York this week for meetings and some holiday sightseeing. Hope to see and shoot a few things like this projection on the side of Saks Fifth Avenue. Blogging nonsense resumes Friday. Pic from: http://www.infofornyc.com
Sharp hires sharp guy to run B2B November 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, aka Sharp, has announced Doug Albregts is its new president, responsible for driving the strategic growth and profitability of the company’s B2B business. “We are fortunate to have someone with Doug Albregts’ skill set and industry experience join our organization and lead our business solutions strategy forward,” said …
Scott Campbell, Best Buy for Business, dead of apparent heart attack November 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes Saddened to report the Canadian digital signage community lost one of its own this weekend, as Scott Campbell of Best Buy for Business died of an apparent heart attack. Best Buy’s Tony White sent this note from Vancouver … I regret to inform you that our friend and colleague, Scott Campbell, passed away unexpectedly on …
DOOHgood Update November 24, 2011 by Dave Haynes Thanksgiving Day (the US version, at least) seems a somewhat appropriate time to provide a quick update on the activities of DOOHgood, the industry effort to distribute video Public Service Announcements to Digital OOH networks who have remnant ad time available. The effort started with the tsunami back in March, as DOOH4Relief, and transformed into …
