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Volume 2, Issue 4 — April 30, 2013
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THE WEEK Recap Date | Link to Listen | Description |
| Week of April 26, 2013 |
Episode 27: Another Big Week in AV News | Last week, we skipped the AV news to address industry safety issues with Scott Tiner, so this week we catch up on some important (and controversial) issues in industry news… | | | | |
| Week of April 18, 2013 |
Episode 26: Staying Safe in AV | In a special edition of THE WEEK, Joel talks with Scott Tiner,rAVe columnist and assistant director of user services at Bates College in Maine, about safety in the audiovisual industry. | | | | |
| Week of April 08, 2013 |
Episode 25: The Same – Yet Different |
After the AV news, Joel talks with Chris Gillespie, longtime friend, colleague and trainer, about training stagers vs. installers – the needs of each, and how the skill sets and attitudes are different… |
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Women in AV WAVEcast Date | Link to Listen | Description |
| Week of April 30, 2013 |
WAVEcast Episode 13: InfoComm 13 WAVE Events and the Boston Marathon | In this episode, I discuss InfoComm13 and all we’ll be doing for the Women in AV! And, in light of the tragic and heartbreaking terrorism acts at the Boston Marathon, I talk about what that means to me and how it may change the future of our industry.
Register for the InfoComm13 WAVE events here.
Nominate a woman for the 2013 WAVE Mentoring award through Friday, May 17th.
To donate to the victims of the Boston Marathon, you can find details here. | | | | |
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| Week of April 30, 2013 | Episode 7: What Does it Take to be a Green AV Professional? | This month I had the pleasure of chatting with Allen Weidman, Infocomm International’s Sustainability Officer and Executive Director of the STEP Foundation. Allen’s story is especially interesting and inspiring, as a professional without formal training or environmental sciences background, his passion and focus on best business practices led him to becoming a Sustainability Officer. Allen shares some of what he sees as the most key trends in Green AV/sustainability, including live AV, Smart Buildings…and the exciting news that the AV IQ database will now include certain environmental data. He also discusses what it takes to become, or hire, a sustainability lead within an organization. | | | | |
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Gary Kayye's (Almost) Daily Rants and rAVes Recap Date | Link to Listen | Description |
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| April 30, 2013 |
Episode 111: InfoComm Giveaways for Kids |
In addition to talking about our InfoComm plans, I also focus on a brand-new column from Midori Connolly that appeared in our rAVe GHGav publication. |
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| April 26, 2013 |
Episode 110: The Women in AV Networking Reception at InfoComm |
This podcast tells you how to sign-up to attend the Women in AV networking reception that’s going be held the first night of InfoComm.
Use this link to sign up for the reception:
www.wavereception.eventbrite.com
Check out our coverage of the E4 tour here:
www.ravenowe4.com |
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| April 24, 2013 |
Episode 109: We are in San Francisco for the Almo E4 AV Tour |
I want you to listen and because were coming to your live from the E4 AV Tour in San Francisco and I tell you how to follow us live online! |
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| April 23, 2013 |
Episode 108: A 200-Degree Panoramic VTC System |
You read that right, there’s a company with a 200 degree Panoramic VTC system that you can pay a monthly fee to use – check it out by listening to my podcast! |
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| April 22, 2013 |
Episode 107: CEDIA’s Regional Pow-Wows |
CEDIA is gearing up for a bunch of regional connection opportunities for networking with HomeAV integrators. Have you heard about them? |
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| April 19, 2013 |
Episode 106: Projection Summit 2013 |
The Projection Summit is happening again at InfoComm so listen to this podcast so you can hear why you need to attend. |
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| April 18 2013 | Episode 105: AMX Finally Responds to the Switcher Shootout Controversy | rAVe is still the only publication covering the Switcher Shootout controversy between Crestron, Extron and AMX and you can hear all about it on today’s rave radio podcast! | | | | |
| April 17, 2013 | Episode 104: I’ll be in San Francisco Next Week | I’ll be at the Almo ProAV E4 AV Tour next week in San Francisco and this is a personal invitation for you to attend and hear what I have to say about the future the AV industry before InfoComm.
Register here to attend the event:
http://www.almoproav.com/Events/e4/ | | | | |
| April 15, 2013 | Episode 103: Gary Kayye Talks with InfoComm Senior VP of Expositions About InfoComm 2013 | So, what’s happening at InfoComm 2013? Well, we went directly to the senior vice president of expositions, Jason McGraw, to find out. InfoComm 2013 will have over 950 exhibitors, over 200 educational programs, the biggest pre-show Super Tuesday line-up ever AND we’re getting you into the show for FREE.
Just click here
http://www.infocommshow.org and use code: MCTRA | | | | |
| April 12, 2013 | Episode 102: All About Blogging | We here at rAVe have an amazing group of bloggers that represent each segment of the A/V market. We have bloggers that work for manufacturers, dealers and even those who are end-user bloggers. Have you noticed? | | | | | | April 11, 2013 | Episode 101: Extron Responds to our Switcher Shoot-Out Article | And, the company claims that Crestron is guilty of misinformation. Listen to hear why.
Link to article: bit.ly/10UVOS3 | | | | |
| April 10, 2013 | Episode 100: ALMO ProAV’s Brian Rhatigan is my Guest on Today’s Podcast | Almo is the ProAV industry’s fastest growing distributor. Today, Brian Rhatigan, Almo Pro A/V’s director of business development, talks to Gary Kayye about where he sees the market heading in 2013 and where the big growth opportunities are. | | | | |
| April 09, 2013 | Episode 99: Crestron’s Switcher Shoot-Out Videos | Crestron took a very bold approach by producing videos that compare, side-by-side, their switchers with switchers made by Extron and AMX. Why bold? Listen to my podcasts and hear what I think. | | | | |
| April 08, 2013 | Episode 98: Christie’s Bar-Setting 4K Resolution Projectors | At today’s NAB show Christie will debut two 4K resolution three chip DLP projectors! Listen to this podcast and you get the details first. | | | | |
| April 05, 2013 | Episode 97: Where’s Our Apple? | In today’s podcast, I discuss the lack of innovation in our industry recently. I point out a couple of success stories in the last five years including Christie’s MicroTiles, Peerless-AV’s Custom Kiosks and NanoLumens– but we are missing a real innovative company. Why? | | | | | | April 04, 2013 | Episode 96: Is the HomeAV Market in Trouble? | Signs are that the HomeAV market is in trouble – in fact, recently, most HomeAV integrators pointed to digital signage as an opportunity for growth. I agree! | | | | | | April 02, 2013 | Episode 95: The Digital Screenmedia Association Industry Excellence Awards | The Annual Digital Screenmedia Association Industry Excellence Award submissions are being reviewed and I — an AV guy — have been selected as a judge!
Watch rAVe’s coverage here:
From rAVe Founder Gary Kayye to Serve as a Judge for 2013 DSA Industry Excellence Awards | | | | |
| April 01, 2013 | Episode 94: Image Mapping on a Dress? Yep! | At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, singer Carrie Underwood wore a dress that was image mapped using two projectors.
Read rAVe’s coverage here:
From Wearable Electronics to Wearable Projections |
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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
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