The AV Industry Future Is Digital Value Optimization

People are people, so how people make decisions is a mix of intellectual and emotional thought patterns. This is true for the audiovisual industry and every other industry. In a sense, therefore, it may seem that business-as-usual for promoting, educating and selling audio visual systems and equipment means that your business doesn’t need to change […]

The AV Industry Future Is Digital Value Optimization

BYOD Part 3: Your *Own* Device Realities

BYOD: The practice of allowing the employees of an organization to use their own computers, smartphones, or other devices for work purposes. It is part of the larger trend of the consumerization of IT. When seeing a product called a “BYOD box” I have to wonder just how you put box at the end of this statement. […]

BYOD Part 3: Your *Own* Device Realities

Predictions for Unified Communications in 2015

After a brief period of dormancy, the unified communications (UC) industry took a healthy jump to life last year. What will this year bring for the industry? UC experts are predicting the biggest trends and what they mean for enterprises and institutions looking to expand and improve their collaboration experience in 2015. A recent article […]

Predictions for Unified Communications in 2015

Creative Uses for the Crestron Mobile App

Anyone who knows me knows that I love my job. I always tell people that my job is like Christmas every day. If it is not a new product I am learning about, programming or testing out, then it is a problem to solve. Most mornings, I really don’t know what to expect on any […]

Creative Uses for the Crestron Mobile App

Who Has the Control?

A presenter. A presentation. Audio. Video. Lights. Control. This is the staple scenario for corporate, education, government and military applications in our industry. In the house of worship market, it looks identical. A pastor. A sermon. Audio. Video. Lights. But no control. In any other market, giving the presenter a control solution — from a […]

Who Has the Control?

Mobile at the Show – Then and Now

As I prepare to head to Orlando, with InfoComm 2013 now less than a week away, I look back at my last trip down to the show several years back. Back then, I traveled from New Jersey with my trusty Dell laptop and my Blackberry, my main mobile business tool. Of course to travel light […]

Mobile at the Show – Then and Now