Latest articles by Carolyn Heinze
Caught on Camera: Lecture Capture Tools for the Age of BYOx
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?
Question: how many people does it take before a huddle space isn’t “huddly” enough?
Easy Tools For Controlling Business Travel Costs
While many of the technologies AV integrators offer are designed to eliminate the need for business travel, somebody’s got to deploy them.
Seizing Opportunities in Non Audio-Centric Environments
When Julian Treasure declared “it’s time to start designing for our ears,” the acoustical community nodded its collective head.
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.
