Electricians and AV Need Each Other
I can’t think of two separate specialists on the jobsite whose work is more closely linked than the AV pros and the electricians. They’re so closely linked …
Welcome to Gary Kayye’s 2019 Krystal Ball – What Will Happen in AV in 2019
I love writing this annual predictions article. If you’re a regular reader, you already know this but for those that don’t, my Kayye’s Krystal Ball piece …
Clippy Apocalypse
I am fairly involved in the worlds of virtual reality, robotics and artificial intelligence and have a strong interest in how they will alter the future of our …
Updated: R.I.P. Christie MicroTiles — True Innovation is Laid to Rest
Update: We just heard from Christie, who told us that although it’s true the original Christie MicroTiles are being retired, an all-new version …
Warm Calls Are The Best Calls
If you’ve been in sales for a long time, you’ll have read a lot of books and articles on selling. And if you keep track of such things, you’ll notice …
ISE: Create Real Value From Your Trip
This year at ISE, AVIXA will present a conference called, “What’s Next In Higher Ed.” AVIXA has presented unique sessions like this for the …
Technologists In Bars Talking AV – Episode 1: GameCraft Brewing with Joe Way
Welcome to Technologist In Bars Talking AV! Come hang out with me and my guest Joe Way at GameCraft Brewing. We’ll have a drink, eat some spicy chicken, …
ISE 2019 Simplifies Show with Six Tech Zones — You NEED to Read This Before Going
There are 15 halls at ISE 2019 in Amsterdam 5-8 February and show management has worked year after year to try to find a way to help visitors, well, visit. …
The Google Home Mini May Be Small, But It Is Also Mighty Useful
This holiday season I gifted a small, simple smf useful electronic device that can play music, control your home, integrate to other smart devices very easily, …
2019: The Year of AV-Over-IP — But Don’t Believe the Hype!
There’s no doubt in my mind that 2019 will be the year we look back on that the industry transitioned from signal routing and distribution via HDMI and …
Three AV Companies to Watch in 2019
I have tried to avoid writing one of these blogs. I resisted the temptation to wrap up my top moments of 2018. I stayed clear of making tech predictions for …
Analog Audio Still Lives On In Our Hearts and in Our Local Communities
Lately I’ve spotted what I believe to be either a new audio trend — or perhaps it’s always been this way, and I just wasn’t paying …
Listen to What Is Being Said (If You Can)
We recently had a email thread at my institution discussing whether people should use microphones as a standard at all meetings. The discussion started as a …
Let’s Talk About Specs
The scene: Project manager training, major integration firm. Dramatis Persona: A project manager, new to the wonderful world of commercial AV A veteran of the …
New Year, New Format
For 2019 I thought I’d flip the script on my Selling AV podcast by introducing a new format. In 2019, I’ll be crowdsourcing your AV sales questions …
Is the AV Industry Getting Soft? Part 2: Hiring in 2019
Last month I asked if the AV Industry was getting soft. I hope that it is… because it should be. In a time when technology is advancing at an alarming …
Future of AV: Merging of Product Development and Marketing
Engineers invent and innovate. Products are created. Marketing promotes the products. Sales try to, well, sell the products. That’s the way it’s …
Situational Awareness, Part 2: The Technology Lag Factor
Scott Brinker, editor at chiefmartec.com, better known as the Chief Marketing Technologist blogger, said in a recent post, “The funny and frustrating …
Making CRM Work For You
One buzzword/acronym that gets thrown around a lot is CRM, short for customer relationship management. It can be a large, unwieldy concept and what CRM looks …
AVPhenom launches Electronic Gift Giving Service
December 24th, 2018 Orange County, CA Just in time for Christmas, AV innovator and inventor, Mark Coxon, AKA @AVPhenom, has introduced a disruptive new …
Winding It Up
Well, here we are again. The holidays are upon us, so it is time to pour a glass of, well, whatever a sales rep sent me for the holidays and summon my internal …
Amazon Wants Smart Homes to Be Affordable and Simple
In years past, building a smart home has been expensive and complex, to say the least. Now however, with the rapid increase of technologies that allow devices …
Three Myths About Videoconferencing
I was fortunate enough to cross paths with the senior editor of a well-respected technology magazine while I was over in London last week. It was a …
Top AV and Collaboration Predictions for 2019
2018 has been an interesting and eventful year in the AV and collaboration industries. We’ve seen a number of mergers and acquisitions, rebranding of …
Is Your Training a Birdie or a Bogey?
By Donald Guzauckas, Jr. Vice President, HB Live, Inc. I recently had the opportunity to enjoy a round of golf with some colleagues at a course that featured …
Look How Easy Content Creation on Digital Signage Networks Has Become!
We’ve been covering, tracking and following the digital signage market for well over 10-years now. And, it’s gone from good, to great, to fantastic to …
Security Through Light: The World’s First Quantum Secured Video Conference
My readers will know that I tend to focus on topics related to collaboration, user-interaction, and generally building products that help us work …
A Move Away From AV?
Throughout my entire career, I have been an advocate of using technology to help educate. When I was in college, training to be a teacher, I began thinking …
Home Technology’s Rise of the Smart Displays
Digital assistants are all the rage these days and they seem to live in so many places like your car radio, watches, smart phones, tablet, computers and the …
My Most Popular Tweet of the Year (And What It Says About Our Industry)
For those of you that aren’t on Twitter or don’t follow me there, I am pretty active on that platform as @avphenom. Most of my tweets deal with …
Situational Awareness
Have you noticed the dramatic rise over the last two-plus years in corporate AV/IT client demand for collaborative technology, huddle spaces and similar …
Oculus Connect 5 – The Experience
Last month, we discussed the Oculus Connect Developers Convention, a meeting I had recently attended in virtual reality. This month, I thought we would address …
