Carolyn Heinze
Carolyn Heinze has covered everything from AV/IT and business to cowboys and cowgirls ... and the horses they love. She was the Paris contributing editor for the pan-European site Running in Heels, providing news and views on fashion, culture, and the arts for her column, “France in Your Pants.” She has also contributed critiques of foreign cinema and French politics for the politico-literary site, The New Vulgate.
Latest articles by Carolyn Heinze

Things to Consider When an Employee Asks for a Raise
By Carolyn Heinze published
While there are those who pride themselves on being cheap, most of us don’t wish to be viewed as such.

How Huddle Rooms are Worth Your Time
By Carolyn Heinze published
They’re everywhere! Or at least, everybody seems to want one, or a few, or a lot.

Messaging The Masses: Next-Gen Alerts And Notifications Technology To Consider
By Carolyn Heinze published
We learn at a very young age to “remain calm” in an emergency, and it’s one of those things that’s often easier said than done.

Sounding On: New Products to Soothe Your Audio Pain Points
By Carolyn Heinze published
We’re still unclear about the whole “if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around, does it make a sound” thing.

Journey to the Destination: Key Considerations for Effective Digital Signage Wayfinding.
By Carolyn Heinze published
It’s hard to remember a time when driving involved the routine use of printed maps and the occasional stop at the nearest gas station to ask for directions.

Innovator Profile: Gisela Torino—“You’ve Got The Power”
By Carolyn Heinze published
When Gisela Torino doesn’t like the sound of something, she changes it.

Considerations for control room design in a complex, mobile age
By Carolyn Heinze published

Making your control room mobile-friendly
By Carolyn Heinze published
These days, no self-respecting website designer creates sites without taking mobile devices into consideration.

Networked AV: Security, Performance, or Both?
By Carolyn Heinze published
AV systems manufacturers have been offering networking capabilities for years, but in a somewhat limited manner: the devices are on a network, but one separate from the core infrastructure.

Key Ingredients of a Successful Collaboration Space
By Carolyn Heinze published
Earlier this year, Prysm Inc., a collaboration solutions developer based in San Jose, Calif., commissioned Forrester Research to examine collaboration technology use in the enterprise.

Smart Recruiting: Hiring on Personality
By Carolyn Heinze published
Can you sum up your personality in one word? What about potential employees? These are the queries that lead to the core question concerning personality tests and recruiting: Do they really work?

Managed Services: Where AV Becomes IT
By Carolyn Heinze published
When the AV design and integration firm HB Communications began expanding its managed services offerings beyond standard break/fix calls, the company worked with a third-party provider.

Caught on Camera: Lecture Capture Tools for the Age of BYOx
By Carolyn Heinze published
These days, if it’s not on video, does it even count? For university students who are increasingly clicking to view rather than hitting the stacks, not so much.

Huddle Spaces are Intuitive & Purposeful, But are They Flexible?
By Carolyn Heinze published
Question: how many people does it take before a huddle space isn’t “huddly” enough?

Easy Tools For Controlling Business Travel Costs
By Carolyn Heinze published
While many of the technologies AV integrators offer are designed to eliminate the need for business travel, somebody’s got to deploy them.
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