If you’ve enjoyed cinema sound in a movie theater (or elsewhere), you’re familiar with B-chain audio — the speakers, amplifiers and processors that make up a sound system. Today, InfoComm is working with leading thinkers from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Audio Engineering Society, and the Acoustical Society of America on standards and best practices that could improve audio well beyond the movie house.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Standards
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
May 2013
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Language: English
As much as you think your AV firm can make more money and improve margins by offering managed services, no client will take you up on your offer if they don't have a need. Learn what the push for managed AV services is really all about. And hear from AV pros about what companies should consider as they embark down this potentially lucrative path.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Business and Management
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
May 2013
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Language: English
“Unified communications is the only technology that has been ‘launching’ for 16 years.” So say the authors of this special report on UC and the “consumerization” of video collaboration technology. If you’ve never heard the term “contextual connectivity,” you should at least know that it may impact your next VTC design. Here’s why.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Conferencing
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
May 2013
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Language: English
To many, live events and installed AV systems are like apple and oranges. So why would a rigger, for example, want to acquire the skills necessary to become a Certified Technology Specialist? It turns out there are many reasons, and today, more live events professionals are taking the time to broaden their knowledge base.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Education; Exam Prep; Live Events
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
May 2013
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Language: English
From insurance issues to 4K displays, event safety to Google Docs, these are the trends that will influence the live events industry in the coming months and years. Will Elvis "appear" at future shows? Find out.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
April 2013
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Language: English
Today, George Mason University has a tool at its disposal that will help its various departments — and others on campus — to define objectively its high-contrast requirements: the ANSI/INFOCOMM 3M-2011 Projected Image System Contrast Ratio standard.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Standards
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2013
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Language: English
Cheap technology, rich content, mobility and the cloud. These are some of the trends that experts say will shape the market for digital signage solutions this year.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Digital Signage
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2013
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Language: English
According to InfoComm’s 2012 Global Market Definition and Strategy Study, the healthcare market is the fastest-growing in North America. How can you crack it? One way is to offer solutions that protect speech privacy and help facilities comply with federal regulations.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2013
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Language: English
During a recent, special performance, every keystroke that rock legend Elton John made on his high-tech keyboard was streamed to similarly equipped keyboards around the world.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2013
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Language: English
One of the greatest benefits of AV-IT convergence is the prospect of running less wire. That’s where the prospect of running power to AV devices using network cabling comes into play. Think lower costs, easier installs and greater flexibility in positioning gear. But also keep in mind that not all Power over Ethernet is created equal.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Networked AV Systems
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2013
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Language: English
When tragedy strikes a concert, state fair or outdoor festival, it makes headlines and sends the industry into action. After a couple years’ worth of high-profile incidents, progress is being made toward codifying various live-event safety measures into standard business practices. Read what it means to be “Storm Ready.”
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2013
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Language:
At no time in the history of videoconferencing has the prospect of interoperability been this within reach.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Conferencing; Video
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2013
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Language: English
AV pros are already familiar with hundreds of acronyms and alphanumeric designators, so what’s a few more? New sustainability standards and protocols introduced recently may prove especially significant to a portion of the industry that has attracted the attention of the green movement: events.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events; Sustainable AV
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Audience: Event Planners; Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2013
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Language: English
Do you want to mix the sound for a concert or corporate event from the balcony, even though the FOH console is on the main level? How about from the box seats, house left? No problem, there’s an app for that
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio; Live Events
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2013
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Language: English
Many AV organizations identify their next generation of project managers by putting certain employees to the test and seeing how they respond. But is a trial by fire the best way to identify and develop the type of professionals you need to guide your company to better project outcomes and healthier customer relations? Probably not.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
February 2013
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Language: English
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio; Best Practices
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
January 2013
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Language: English
There is measurable value in using client surveys as a tool in the client relationship management toolkit. Find out how to approach the survey process.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Business and Management; Project Management
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
December 2012
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Language: English
Clients don't want pre-recession AV for their presentations. Pipes and drapes don't cut it anymore. Read what else today's meeting planners are looking for.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio; AV Equipment; Conferencing; Display; Live Events; Video
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
December 2012
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Language: English
Does your company hold so-called “post-mortem” meetings after a project is finished? Do they tend to focus on what went wrong and who was responsible? If so, you’re probably doing it wrong.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Project Managers
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Publication Date:
November 2012
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Language: English
Please don’t catch yourself saying what our project management expert once heard uttered by someone at an AV company: “Did you want it ‘done’ or ‘done done’?”
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Project Managers
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Publication Date:
November 2012
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Language: English
At the InfoComm 100 last month, experts offered plenty of food for thought to AV pros seeking to integrate smart buildings. From necessary skills to next-generation technology, we’ve summed up two days of insight in these important points. And answered the question, what does “big data” have to do with anything?
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Smart Building Technology (SBT)
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
November 2012
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Language: English
Even the most well-defined, cookie-cutter project experiences change. The challenge is in how you manage changes to an AV design or installation and whether it’s part of a clearly stated process.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Project Managers
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Publication Date:
October 2012
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Language: English
With just days to go before the election, go behind the scenes of the presidential debates to learn how live events professionals turn two guys talking on-stage into a pitch-perfect audio experience — both for the live audience and for millions of TV viewers.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
October 2012
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Language: English
Discusses the reasons healthcare is the fastest-growing market for AV systems in North America, according to InfoComm’s latest Market Definition and Strategy Study.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: AV Equipment; Healthcare
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
September 2012
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Language: English
When managing people, competence and behavior are often indistinguishable — and that’s a problem. Many managers automatically link the two together.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Project Managers
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Publication Date:
September 2012
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Language: English
Often, when inquiring after the status of a project, people ask one or two questions: “How much is done?” and/or, “Are we on schedule and on budget?” To which the replies are invariably: “Almost done, don’t worry” and/or, “On time and on budget.”
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Business and Management; Marketing and Sales; Project Management
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Audience: Project Managers
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Publication Date:
September 2012
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Language: English
Around 2005, as commodities and construction prices were skyrocketing, clients began clamoring for designs to be done more quickly. BIM would become the displacing and disruptive technology in the marketplace because it reduced both time to market and cost to owners.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Building Information Modeling (BIM); Smart Building Technology (SBT)
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
August 2012
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Language: English
Live events these days take many forms. Few live events, however, match the sheer sprawl and complexity of the X Games, an annual spectacle put on by sportscaster ESPN featuring action (a.k.a. extreme) sports, from skateboarding to BMX bike riding.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
August 2012
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Language: English
Here’s a question all AV companies need to ask: How do we manage the people inside our organizations — those people working within our processes, supporting the projects and operations that are part of our well-defined strategy and visible portfolio of opportunities?
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Consultants; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
August 2012
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Language: English
Why should AV companies collect youth like it’s a precious metal? Let’s count the reasons:
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Business and Management
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
August 2012
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Language:
I view process as simply how we do things. If you watch people and how they do something, you can measure their effectiveness (quality) and efficiency (speed and waste).
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Best Practices; Project Management
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Audience: Consultants; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
July 2012
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Language: English
The final link in the digital signage chain is usually some sort of visual display — and sometimes an audio system — and that’s the expertise of the professional AV systems integrator
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Digital Signage
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
July 2012
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Language: English
Networked digital audio has become a goal for many live-event producers, with the Holy Grail being an analog-to-digital conversion that takes place at the stage box, with the audio signal staying digital until it hits an amplifier on the way to a speaker.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio; Live Events; Networked AV Systems
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
July 2012
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Language: English
After submitting a well-structured scope of work, whether in response to a request for proposals or via direct sales, an AV firm often gets good news: Your company’s proposal has been accepted (follow the advice of earlier articles in this series to see your rate of acceptance grow).
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Consultants; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
July 2012
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Language: English
Want to get an idea of what clients and event planners will be asking for next fall? Look no further than the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
June 2012
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Language:
The roots of the AV industry are firmly planted in the K-12 education market, dating back to the formation of the National Association of Visual Education Dealers (NAVED) in 1939.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Education
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
May 2012
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Language:
The relationship between Austin, Texas, and the South By Southwest (SXSW) mega-event that the city has hosted for the past 25 years is becoming one of basic physics.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio; Design; Live Events
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
May 2012
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Language:
But if we’re looking to create an accurate estimate, we need to analyze its three characteristics: assumptions, methodology and presentation.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Consultants; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
May 2012
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Language: English
Working on hundreds of projects and training thousands of project managers, I’ve often wondered why so few people around me have common sense. Many times I’ve discovered their lack of common sense three-quarters of the way through a project, which is a little late.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Consultants; Content Providers; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
April 2012
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Language: English
The project management practice of developing what’s called a “work breakdown structure” got its start in the U.S. Department of Defense. Today, companies of all stripes consider it an important method for separating a project into deliverables and getting a handle on the overall scope of work.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Consultants; Content Providers; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
April 2012
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Language: English
Innovation is about the pathway to an end result. The end result is about solving problems and solving problems is inevitably about the client.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Business and Management
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Audience: Consultants; Content Providers; End Users; Facility Managers; Project Managers; Technology Managers
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Publication Date:
March 2012
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Language: English
Look in any college student's room and it's a safe bet you won't find a Cisco E20 or a Polycom VVX 1500. Their absence is a major reason why it's challenging for schools to enable one-on-one and multiparty videoconferences between students and faculty.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Conferencing; Education
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2012
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Language: English
Every lighting professional has a tale of his own epiphany about LED lighting. The concert touring business seems on-board with LED, for instance, but theatrical and corporate events appear to be lagging in their adoption. Still, the transition to LED for live events is accelerating.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Lighting; Live Events
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Audience: Event Planners; Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2012
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Language: English
Live events professionals descended on Washington, D.C., to chart a course for the year ahead. The inaugural InfoComm Live conference was created to spot trends, share best practices and gauge the state of the industry. What is that state?
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events
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Audience: Event Planners; Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2012
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Language: English
AV professionals monitoring the iPad announcement need hear only three things about the new product: 4G, HD, and quad-core. Taken together, those iPad features describe an instantly viable, high-definition videoconferencing endpoint.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Conferencing; Video
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
March 2012
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Language: English
If AV integration companies want to be more respected by clients in the marketplace, their contracts should be the starting point for creating credibility and professionalism.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Project Managers
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Publication Date:
March 2012
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Language: English
Many of the AV integration companies I’ve worked with have employed a range of sales strategies and styles. But overall, their approaches come down to this: short-term sale versus long-term relationship.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Marketing and Sales; Project Management
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
February 2012
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Language: English
We’ve all heard how different generations of people (baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y) work and live differently. This sometimes causes frustration for those of one generation who must interact with those of another generation whom they deem not to be acting “correctly.”
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
February 2012
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Language: English
We asked Andre LeJeune, CTS®, how training for live events has evolved over the years and how the industry itself has changed.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Certification; InfoComm Products and Services; Live Events
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
February 2012
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Language:
Last year marked the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program's first decade of existence, a span bookended by two major economic slumps.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management; Smart Building Technology (SBT); Standards; Sustainable AV
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
February 2012
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Language:
If the world seems like it’s gotten a lot louder, it’s because it has. Or at least there are a lot more sound systems out there making noise.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio; Live Events
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
February 2012
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Language:
If you haven't heard of the analog sunset, the good news is you're not alone. The bad news is, ignorance won't be bliss for AV professionals and clients alike.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Display
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
January 2012
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Language: English
What should the vision include? How does a young (or mature), growing company implement an effective vision?
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Marketing and Sales; Project Management
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Audience: Executives and Business Managers; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
January 2012
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Language: English
Is the audio/video integration industry ready to fully acknowledge the value of women in the project management role and support their growth?
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Project Management
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Audience: Project Managers
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Publication Date:
January 2012
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Language: English
Texas is certainly a big place, but Austin, all things considered (like, it’s the state capital), is a relatively small town. That worked in favor of the folks who collaborated on the creation of ACL Live, the new home of the long-running PBS hit show Austin City Limits.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
December 2011
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Language: English
On August 13, 2011, a stage collapsed during a powerful storm at the Indiana State Fair. Now, proponents say, getting the word out and training professionals to use the standards are critical to this dynamic industry.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events; Standards
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
December 2011
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Language:
In almost every market where they’re used, audiovisual systems have evolved from “nice-to-have” toys to business-critical systems — to the benefit of the entire AV industry.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Standards
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
December 2011
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Language:
In September, at the InfoComm 100 conference, an annual gathering of industry leaders held by InfoComm International®, much of the focus was on how AV businesses must evolve in a world where AV and IT have converged.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Business and Management
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
November 2011
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Language: English
It is perhaps the Holy Grail of industry standards: to be specified or expressly integrated into other industry standards, best practices or requests for proposals. Take, for example, the growing stable of ANSI-accredited, AV performance standards from InfoComm International®.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Government; Government Relations; InfoComm Products and Services; Standards
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Audience: Designers; Facility Managers; Installers; Integrators; IT Professionals; Live Events Professionals; Project Managers; Technology Managers
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Publication Date:
November 2011
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Language:
Building codes have existed for almost 4,000 years. To this day, building and safety codes dictate construction practices. But codes have only become high priority for AV professionals over the last 50 years, as AV equipment migrated from the movable rolling cart to permanent installation in public and private buildings.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio; AV Equipment; Standards; Video
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
November 2011
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Language:
You may have heard of it. It’s the Sustainable Technology Environments Program, better known as STEP®. Not ringing a bell? Or maybe you’ve heard of it, but you’re not sure exactly what it means (or what it has to do with you).
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Smart Building Technology (SBT); Sustainable AV
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
November 2011
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Language:
You may not know it, despite all the press surrounding the green movement, but there will soon be another commercial building code that will impact what we do as AV and technology professionals.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Smart Building Technology (SBT); Sustainable AV
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
November 2011
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Language: English
The rise of SBT presents both a daunting challenge and a compelling opportunity for AV professionals. What sets SBT apart from other trends is the cross-industry goodwill and collaboration that will drive SBT to the forefront of all construction projects in the near future.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Building Information Modeling (BIM); Smart Building Technology (SBT); Sustainable AV
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Audience: Architects, Builders and Contractors; Designers; Installers; IT Professionals; Project Managers; Technology Managers
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Publication Date:
October 2011
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Language:
Working on projects for the government has always required a certain amount of discretion and attention to detail. And over time, the roles of the AV consultant and integrator have risen in profile as AV technologies have evolved into vital communications tools for government agencies.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Design; Government; Government Relations; Installation; Secure AV
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
October 2011
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Language: English
The AV industry often sits at the crux of revolutions in building design and technology. IT network convergence, green technology and integrated project delivery (IPD) are changing the way people design, inhabit and use a building. AV professionals are now turning their attention to smart building technologies (SBT), a growing force within the design and construction industries that, once again, requires a strong AV industry presence.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Smart Building Technology (SBT); Sustainable AV
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
September 2011
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Language: English
Like no other, the field of acoustics is rife with myth, misinformation and marketing tactics that belies the true science and legacy of the trade.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
August 2011
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Language: English
Last August, members of InfoComm International®’s Integrated Building Technologies Task Force attended the National Conference on Building Commissioning in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their goal: to explain to building facility managers how the AV industry could help them coordinate their low-voltage systems in order to make their buildings operate more efficiently.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Smart Building Technology (SBT); Standards
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Audience: Architects, Builders and Contractors
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Publication Date:
August 2011
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Language: English
InfoComm International® has been working with a variety of coalitions to convince policymakers to tone down the dangerous rhetoric leading to the cancellation of meetings and events around the country; to embrace sensible guidelines for companies receiving taxpayer assistance; and to promote travel as an economic solution.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Business and Management; Government; Government Relations
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
July 2011
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Language: English
InfoComm International recently released its newest performance standard, ANSI/INFOCOMM 3M-2011 Projected Image System Contrast Ratio. The voluntary standard seeks to define acceptable minimum contrast ratios for projected images, relative to their application, for both installed systems and live events.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Display; Installation; Live Events; Standards
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
July 2011
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Language:
In AV, most of us like to turn up the volume. But when you hear everything, sometimes you miss out on the part of the message that is just for you.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: InfoComm Products and Services; Live Events
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Audience: Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
July 2011
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Language:
Despite the recent recession and continued challenges to the world economy, the digital signage sector has enjoyed stellar growth for the past several years.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Digital Signage
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Audience: Architects, Builders and Contractors; Consultants; Content Providers
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Publication Date:
December 2010
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Language: English
Fiber-optic networks are showing up in AV installs at an increasing rate, driven by the need to transport a large amount audio, video and data over a long distance.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: AV Equipment; Education; Government; Healthcare; Installation; Video
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Audience:
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Publication Date:
December 2010
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Language:
Cloud computing is a term that the AV industry is hearing more often these days, especially as cloud-based services are making appearances in both commercial and residential AV installs.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: AV Equipment; Networked AV Systems
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
November 2010
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Language: English
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic:
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Architects, Builders and Contractors; Designers; Integrators; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
April 2010
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Language: English
There are many reasons why smart building technologies (SBT) are a growing trend in the design and construction industry – lower costs, higher efficiency and sustainability, to name a few.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Standards
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Audience: Architects, Builders and Contractors
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Publication Date:
December 2009
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Language: English
This report from the attendees of InfoComm International’s 2009 InfoComm 100 meeting discusses the industry’s current conditions and trends.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: AV Industry
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
June 2009
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Language: English
Report discusses the standard occupational classification code (SOC) and its application to the audiovisual field; the concept of "apprenticeship" affect the audiovisual industry, including work that is covered by prevailing rate of wage statutes; and the connection between apprenticeship and licensure and the relationship between certification and licensure.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Government Relations
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Audience: All AV Professionals
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Publication Date:
October 2005
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Language: English
This report considers and analyzes business trends related to AV/IT convergence, and the impact of those trends on the future of the AV industry.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: AV Industry; Business and Management; Networked AV Systems
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Executives and Business Managers; IT Professionals
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Publication Date:
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Language: English
An examination of how AV technology standards are helping people with physical limitations to enjoy more interactive and safe experiences in everday life.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio; Design; Government; Healthcare; Standards
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Audience: Architects, Builders and Contractors; Consultants; Designers; Integrators; Technology Managers
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Publication Date:
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Language: English
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: AV Equipment
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Audience: Dealers Distributors and Resellers; Manufacturers
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Publication Date:
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Language: English
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: AV Industry; Marketing and Sales
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Audience: Consultants; Executives and Business Managers; Integrators; Project Managers; Technology Managers
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Publication Date:
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The writing is on the wall: Streaming must be a regular component of AV professionals’ technology arsenals, particularly if they work the live-events beat.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Live Events; Video
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Project Managers; Students
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Publication Date:
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Language: English
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: AV Industry; Design; Government; Standards; Video
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Architects, Builders and Contractors; IT Professionals; Project Managers
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Publication Date:
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It’s been more than three years since the United States threw the metaphorical switch that transitioned the country from analog to digital broadcasting. In the process, it created a controversy around what are called “white spaces” – the radio-frequency (RF) spectrum that acts as a buffer between TV channels, and forced AV pros out of a popular frequency range.
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Type: Article, Report or Whitepaper
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Topic: Audio; Live Events
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Audience: All AV Professionals; Live Events Professionals
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Publication Date:
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Language: English
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