A most excellent missive! December 19, 2008 by Dave HaynesDave, thanks for putting the article out there! – tm What they really do #6, 10, 11 What is the real motivation of the provider? As a digital plumber I have pulled out and replaced the many of the best of the top applications with another top notch competitor’s product. Problem solved, without ever having …
Ho Ho Flippin' Ho December 19, 2008 by Dave Haynes 2:09 PM, December 19 – The view from my office as a big storm blasts through.This is when I REALLY like working from home, though I sometimes wish that home was beside the Gulf of Mexico and not Lake Ontario. Sigh.
Wireless Ronin….Employee HeadCount December 19, 2008 by Dave HaynesDave…as the former President of Impart, which reached 38 employees at its height of operations in Digital Signage, with double the revenues of Wireless Ronin, 97 employees does sound like bloated overkill…oh well…anyway, a heartfelt congratulations with 2009 market success to new CEO Jim Granger in his efforts to turning things around at a good …
point 13 – 13 – Does it suit YOUR customers' needs? December 19, 2008 by Dave HaynesI think this is the most powerful of all these. What Plasmanet have been doing over the last 7 years is focus on internal communications and call centers. That way the retail / public guys battle it out for ad space. I create content for all DS solutions, be they public or private, so my …
Focus December 18, 2008 by Dave HaynesIf I were Canwest, I’d be spending a little more time focusing on fixing their business problems. Goldman Sachs is calling…they want their money back 🙂
OBN and Rogers team up for interactive LED board December 18, 2008 by Dave Haynes This is pretty cool in terms of blending big-ass screens with little handheld devices.In what is touted as a Canadian first, Outdoor BroadCast Network is working with Rogers Wireless on a real-time app at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square, which is a smaller, colder version of Times Square.Using Rogers Wireless BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphones, reports SelfService World, the public can …
CanWest grabs DS rights to ad solutions service December 18, 2008 by Dave HaynesI will hold back on a real opinion until I see this in action, but this smells like shovelware in all its glory.One of the biggest media companies in the frozen tundra I call home has done a deal with Chicago-based ShopLocal to be the exclusive Canadian provider of digital advertising solutions. ShopLocal and Canwest Global Communications, which owns …
Thanks for pitching WireSpring's FireCast software! December 18, 2008 by Dave HaynesI couldn’t have done it better myself 😉
Great Post. December 18, 2008 by Dave HaynesDave, A most excellent post. I think you’ve covered the lionshare of what is needed in making what can often be a arduous decision. Nate
And then there were 97 December 18, 2008 by Dave HaynesThe folks at Wireless Ronin continue to work at reconfiguring the publicly-traded company.There was a layoff round six weeks ago that reduced the headcount to 125 from 160, the latter a number that had many people scratching their heads wondering what everyone did. Now there’s word of another round of “right-sizing” – one which unfortunately puts …
