| |
|
Volume 2, Issue 2 — Feb 28, 2013
|
| | |
THE WEEK Recap Date | Link to Listen | Description |
Week of Feb. 26, 2013 |
Episode 20: Tradeshows – The Human Factor | This week, Joel winds up a two-part series on maximizing your returns on tradeshows. Last week, we spoke with Dean Hills about tradeshow technology. This week, we follow that up with a frank talk with Gary Kayye about tradeshow messaging, and preparing for the show.
| | | |
Week of Feb. 18, 2013 |
Episode 19: Tradeshows – The Expense and the Technology | After the ISE experience, Joel looks at the expense, and the marketing technology, of tradeshows. Joel’s guest is Dean Hills, President and Founder of PRMConnect, who are harnessing the power of the cloud to make tradeshows pay.
Show link: www.prmconnect.com | | | | Back to Top |
Click above to learn more |
Women in AV WAVEcast Date | Link to Listen | Description |
Week of Feb. 26, 2013 |
WAVEcast Episode 11: Executive Management Talks NSCA’s 2013 BLC |
This WAVEcast, we talk with the exective team of the National Systems Contractor’s Association (NSCA) about the 15th annual Business and Leadership Conference help in Phoenix, AZ last week. Chuck Wilson, Executive Director, Ingolf deJong, President of the Board of Directors, and Ron Pusey, Board of Director, share with us from the conference the history, highlights, and what attendees gain for their business from participating. You’ll hear about the activities, that took place over the 3 days, the value and knowledge offered by world-renowned speakers, and their perspectives on what they and the industry business leaders and owners participating take away from being part of this one-of-a-kind industry conference.
Also announced at this year’s conference, Chuck Wilson’s new book, Under the Social Influence, has been released and will be available to public on March 1, 2013. Wilson’s new book is a handbook primarily for younger employees who want to learn how to adapt and thrive in the professional workplace through examples and exercises focused on everything from setting priorities to surrounding yourself with positive people. For managers, Wilson provides expert mentoring tips for developing strong and positive relationships with your younger staff.
Two dollars of the proceeds for every book sold is donated to the NSCA Education Foundation to offer continuing education and you can learn more about Under the Influence visit www.underthesocialinfluence.com.
To find details about the 2013 NSCA Business and Leadership Conference, click here. |
|
|
|
Week of Feb. 26, 2013 |
WAVEcast Episode 10: Live from the floor of the BLC | On today’s WAVEcast, Jennifer Willard is broadcasting from the middle of the NSCA Business Learning Conference. She get’s honest perspectives about the conference from three women attending the show: Erin Pucci – Communication Specialist, Cory Schaeffer – Cofounder and Vice President of Sales Worldwide of Listen Technologies, and Kirsten Nelson – Editor of System Contractor news. | | | |
Week of Feb. 18, 2013 |
WAVEcast Episode 9: NSCA’s Business Leadership Conference | Women in AV founder, Jennifer H. Willard, is attending and reporting from this year’s NSCA Business and Leadership Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. NSCA’s BLC is a one-of-a-kind industry conference that brings together the business owners and leaders of AV systems integration companies for 3 days of seminars, speakers, and networking with peers and colleagues about topics related to the state of the industry and it’s future. And, a golf charity that raises money for the NSCA Education Foundation. The theme of this year’s BLC is Transform Your Business into the World of Tomorrow.
This year, Willard is attending as an owner/end-user and it will be the first-time this sector of our industry is participating in the conference. She will be a panelist on the Beer n’ Bull session that will focus on Developing Winning Partnerships between the manufacturer, systems integrators, and owner/end-users. | | | |
Back to Top Gary Kayye's (Almost) Daily Rants and rAVes Recap Date | Link to Listen | Description |
Feb. 28, 2012 |
Episode 78: Corning’s Gorilla Glass is Coming to DSE |
Yesterday during the opening of the Digital Signage Expo here in Las Vegas, we recorded the keynote address delivered by Dr. Bocko of Corning. Corning is entering the ProAV market to help display manufacturers deliver better, stronger displays that was last longer using Gorilla Glass – the same kind of glass used on high-end smartphones. |
|
|
|
Feb. 27, 2012 |
Episode 77: My Top Two Products from Day One of DSE |
Listen to my podcast from Day One of the Digital Signage Expo here in Las Vegas. In this podcast I let you know the top two products I saw during my first day of the Digital Signage Expo – one is from a company you know well and the other is from a company of which you’ve never heard. |
|
|
|
Feb. 26, 2012 |
Episode 76: Bookmark our DSE Coverage |
We are here in Vegas with our own booth on the show floor at the digital Signage Expo. We are here covering the show live and I’d like for you to bookmark the page ravenowdse.com so you can follow along with our coverage. We have 6 reporters here and we’ll shoot a few hundred videos of all the new products launched at the show, and we’ll have live podcasts in addition to live tweeting and blogging. This is the premier digital signage show in the world. |
|
|
|
Feb. 21, 2012 |
Episode 75: A Wi-Fi Thermostat and a $799 1080p Gaming Projector |
Today I talk about two new products from Acer and Savant AV Systems – one’s a Wi-Fi thermostat and the other is a 1080p home theater projector aimed at the home gaming market. |
|
|
|
Feb. 20, 2012 |
Episode 74: The DSE Party Hosted by Peerless-AV |
I give you details on how to register for Peerless-AV’s DSE party next Wednesday night at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas. Listen and register as we’ll all be there covering the party too! |
|
|
|
Feb. 18, 2012 |
Episode 73: All About rAVe |
I talk about what we have going on at our website including our coverage of next week’s Digital Signage Expo.
Link: rAVeNOWdse.com |
|
|
|
Feb. 13, 2012 |
Episode 72: The Digital Signage Expo |
We have a team of reporters heading to Las Vegas at the end of the month to cover the Digital Signage Expo. DSE, as it is known, is the industry’s largest digital signage show covering not just hardware but also software and content providers. Here’s how to follow our DSE coverage |
|
|
|
Feb. 12, 2012 |
Episode 71: Mitsubishi Goes Laser |
Mitsubishi’s newest introduction is laser-based DLP projectors and there are three different models. In this podcast, I tell you why these are important to the AV market. |
|
|
|
Feb. 08, 2012 |
Episode 70: The Best Podcast Ever |
We don’t even want to tell you why… Just listen!! |
|
|
|
Feb. 07, 2012 |
Episode 69: It’s all about InfoComm 2013 |
It’s time to register for InfoComm 2013 as registration is now OPEN! Listen why: |
|
|
|
Feb. 06, 2012 |
Episode 68: CEDIA’s Lifestyle Awards |
Want some great free PR for a home theater system you’ve either designed or integrated? Then listen in… |
| | |
Feb. 04, 2012 | Episode 67: Christie’s Book of Shapes | One of the most unique marketing tools for a manufacturer has to be this new Book of Shapes from Christie. Listen to why: | Back to Top |
Click above to learn more |
For all you REGULAR listeners of rAVe Radio out there, hopefully you enjoyed another opinion-packed issue!
For those of you NEW to rAVe, you just read how we are — we are 100 percent opinionated. We not only report the news and new product stories of the ProAV and HomeAV industries, but we stuff the articles full of our opinions. That may include (but is not limited to) whether or not the product is even worth looking at, challenging the manufacturers on their specifications, calling a marketing-spec bluff and suggesting ways integrators market their products better. But, one thing is for sure, we are NOT a trade publication that gets paid for running editorial or product stories. Traditional trade publications get paid to run product stories — that's why you see what you see in most of the pubs out there. We are different: we run what we want to run and NO ONE is going to pay us to write or say anything good (or bad).
To send me feedback, don't reply to this newsletter. Instead, write directly to me at gary@ravepubs.com or for editorial ideas, Editor-in-Chief Sara Abrons at sara@ravepubs.com. A little about me: I graduated from Journalism School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where I am adjunct faculty). I've been in the AV industry since 1987 where I started with Extron and eventually moved to AMX. So, I guess I am an industry veteran (although I don't think I am that old). I have been an opinionated columnist for a number of industry publications and in the late 1990s I started the widely read KNews eNewsletter (the first in the AV market) and also created the model for and was co-founder of AV Avenue, which is now known as InfoComm IQ. rAVe [Publications] has been around since 2003, when we launched our original newsletter, rAVe ProAV Edition. Everything we publish is Opt-in — we spam NO ONE! rAVe ProAV Edition is our flagship ePublication with what we believe is a reach of virtually everyone in the ProAV market. rAVe HomeAV Edition, co-published with CEDIA and launched in February 2004, is, by far, the largest ePub in the HomeAV market. We added rAVe Rental [and Staging] in November 2007, rAVe ED [Education] in May 2008 and then rAVe DS [Digital Signage] in January 2009. We added rAVe GHGav [Green, Healthcare & Government AV] in August 2010 and rAVe HOW [House of Worship] in July 2012. rAVe Radio, our podcasts, were launched in 2012. You can subscribe to any of those publication or see ALL our archives by going to: https://www.ravepubs.com To read more about my background, our team and what we do, go to https://www.ravepubs.com Back to Top Copyright 2013 – rAVe [Publications] – All rights reserved – All rights reserved. For reprint policies, contact rAVe [Publications], 210 Old Barn Ln. – Chapel Hill, NC 27517 – (919) 969-7501. Email: Sara@rAVePubs.com
rAVe contains the opinions of the author only and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of other persons or companies or its sponsors. |
|
|
|