| DIGITAL SIGNPOSTS - September 23, 2013 | Digital Signage Meets Big Data
By Vern Freedlander, Vice President, Production, X2O Media
One of the recurring themes in this column is how digital signage can help alleviate "communications clutter" within the corporate enterprise. Busy employees and executives everywhere are inundated with web and intranet content, emails, social media, and most scary of all: big data. Vast amounts of data are constantly being pulled from numerous sources, analyzed, dissected, reformatted, and distributed. Making sense out of this ocean of data is incredibly challenging, and the time available for examining countless spreadsheets and graphs to find actionable nuggets of information has become scarce. Enter the real-time infographic; the ideal combination of data and design that quickly and concisely gets to the point, simplifies the presentation, and tells the story behind the data with exceptional clarity. MORE» |
| | WEBINAR | AVB Demystified: What do you know for sure?
Whatever you already know about AVB, chances are you still have questions about how it works, its viability, and its compatibility with the products you specify and install. When the topic comes up, do you avoid it rather than wade into the murky waters of networking protocols? This webcast—by AVB expert and InfoComm instructor Dave Thies—will bring you up to date, so you can evaluate AVB for yourself and discuss networking more constructively with your clients and manufacturers/partners. MORE» |
| | MOST INNOVATIVE PRODUCT AWARDS | The 2013 Sound & Video Contractor Innovative Products Awards honor electronic and mechanical innovation across the full range of ProAV products. To be eligible for an award, the product must be designed for the professional AV market and have shipped between October 15th, 2012, and October 15th, 2013. Each product entry is $195. Manufacturers can enter up to 5 products for consideration before Friday, November 1st, 2013 by 10pm PST. Winners will be selected by the readers of Sound & Video Contractor and announced in the December issue of Sound & Video Contractor. MORE» |
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