16:9 Podcasts: Rick Cope, NanoLumens June 29, 2016 by Super User In this episode, I’m speaking with Rick Cope, the founder and CEO of NanoLumens, which makes and markets its own line of unique indoor and outdoor LED displays from its facilities in Atlanta. Rick has a really interesting background, coming out of the US Marines and being in the thick of things during Desert Storm, …
Projects: BMO Lights Up Twin Video Walls In Toronto’s PATH System June 24, 2016 by Super User This is a pair of 3 by 5 video walls, using 55-inch narrow bezel displays, in the underground PATH concourse system/maze that connects most of the big office towers in downtown Toronto. Done for BMO Financial Group, the wall is in the walkway system at BMO’s flagship location, First Canadian Place. The guys who put it …
How Much Time Do Digital Signage Displays Really Have With Viewers? June 23, 2016 by Curtis Tilly Let’s face it – digital signage. with some exceptions, is a glance medium. What’s scheduled to screens has seconds to get noticed, absorbed or ignored. But how many seconds? How long do we typically have for content to connect with consumers? Well, not long at all. Almost all of us are so wired into the steady …
Projects: LED Staircase Leads Way Into New Vegas Nightclub June 23, 2016 by Super User I’m not quite sure how a company based in Ottawa, Ontario got a nightclub deal in Las Vegas, Nevada, but UTG Digital Media from Canada’s capital has installed a slick LED staircase at the new JEWEL Nightclub at the Aria casino-hotel. The club opened in May, and is managed by the hospitality company Hakkasan Group, which also …
IoT Meets Digital Signage: July 12th Webinar June 22, 2016 by Super User It was pretty rare for me to patch in to a webinar, let alone run or be part of one – but all of a sudden I’m doing a bunch. The next one is the second in what is a series of online discussions I’m doing with Canonical, the guys behind Ubuntu Linux. I did …
DSF Meet & Greet Mixer Set For Minneapolis On July 21 June 22, 2016 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is holding another one of its Meet & Greet Networking events next month – an evening function on July 21 at the Microsoft Training Center in Edina, MN, which is suburban Minneapolis. The event will have drinks and nibblies, and feature presenters from Microsoft, talking about personalization of digital signage in retail. The DSF …
12+ Tools For Using Social Media On Digital Signage Screens June 22, 2016 by Super User Social media can be a great resource for fresh, interesting, funny and highly visual content for digital signage screens, but there’s a lot more to it than pointing your content management software at a web address or hash tag. End-users need to think and plan out their social media strategy, find the right resources, identify …
Webinar At 1 ET Today On Using Data In Digital Signage June 21, 2016 by Super User I’m up midday at Omnivex’s offices in the north part of Toronto to do a Q&A webinar on how data can be used to drive digital signage. It’s more of a chat than a formal presentation, and I’ll toss questions at Omnivex President Jeff Collard about how this stuff is done. Omnivex was doing data-driven digital signage a decade and …
Making Better Workplaces With Employee-Facing Digital Signage June 20, 2016 by David Kaszycki Let’s cut to the chase, short and sweet. Digital signage has evolved. Period, and end of sentence. It began as a means of advertising and then it took on the patina of providing a “wow factor” for the viewer and collecting impressions that could not be ignored. Yes, it is still all that but to …
NanoLumens’ AWARE Adds CMS, Android Media Player To Indoor LED Display Offer June 20, 2016 by Super User The lines between hardware and software makers in digital signage continue to blur, with news that Atlanta-based LED display manufacturer NanoLumens now has a content management and remote management software suite, and a dedicated Android media player that will ship with its new displays. This is a bit along the lines of how the LCD …
