Latest articles by Carolyn Heinze
The AV/IT Balancing Act
Employ the term “AV/IT convergence” and you’re often met with exasperation.
They Heart BYOD
Supporting our increasingly mobile, device-driven culture doesn’t mean tech managers have to give up control.
LAN or VLAN?
When it comes to best practices for BYOD environments, a question tech managers often ponder is LAN or VLAN. One deciding factor is how IT departments wish to manage their budgets.
How to Avoid Pitfalls in Project Management
As AV technology plays a more central role in communications, the need for competent project management has become paramount to an integrator’s success.
Make Them Look: 8 Keys to Captivating Content
8 ways to created captivating digital signage content.
D.I.Y. AV
Ten years ago, the media services group at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa., elected to oversee all of its AV design and integration work in-house.
Setting Yourself Up to Achieve 2016 Goals
The transition period from one year to the next seems to involve a lot of wrapping up: we wrap up presents, we wrap up projects, we wrap up loose ends.
Six Ways to Optimize Your Digital Signage Investment
There’s no question that digital signage offers organizations much more flexibility than generic analog signs.
Control on Campus: A Tech Manager Primer
With the number of smart classroom, flipped classroom, and collaboration deployments continually on the rise, the campus tech manager’s already jam-packed schedule is even more cramped.
Determining What Your Clients Need Their AV to Do
If you’re selling a system, the term “use case” should come up at least once during the conversation.
AV & IT Merge at University Help Desks
If AV Services has no luck making the fix, they will call the local AV dealer––with which the university has a service contract––so that repairs or hot swaps can be made within 48 hours.
The Importance of Selling Managed Services
Question: do you sell products or solutions? The answer is probably both.
6 Ways Tech Managers Can Save on Displays
The cost of video displays has indeed come down over the last few years, but they still come at a price.
7 Collaboration Opportunities Beyond the Display
Question: what’s your definition of “collaboration”? And: how do you define “collaboration” as it applies to technology—or as technology applies to it?
Watch Your Language!
Ours is indeed a multicultural society, one that thrives because of its diversity.
Smarter Searching & Managing Metadata to Optimize ROI
With organizations spending an increasing amount of financial, technological, and human resources on video production, the logical next step is to put these video libraries to good use.
