Maintaining Strong Business Relationships By Steve Greenblatt With hardware no longer being a differentiator nor a profit center for AV service providers, more emphasis is being put on the importance of building and maintaining strong business partnerships.
Bolstering Your Organization With AV Specialists By Steve Greenblatt As end-user organizations continue to evolve and develop in-house AV teams, significant benefit can be found in looking to AV specialists to fill in the gaps and supplement their services.
Custom Control: A Tech Manager's Best Friend By Steve Greenblatt When planned and implemented effectively, custom-programmed systems can be one of the greatest assets to technology managers.
Turning AV-over-IP Challenges Into Opportunities By Steve Greenblatt The shift to AV-over-IP architectures is bringing a number of challenges to the industry. But with these challenges also comes opportunity to stand out from the pack.
The Importance of Introducing Young People to the AV Industry By Steve Greenblatt AV industry companies embracing new ideas and the fresh perspectives that are served up by younger generations can be better prepared to succeed.
Put Your Video Expertise to Work for Your Business By Steve Greenblatt There are many opportunities to leverage video to enhance daily business, and audiovisual professionals are uniquely suited to capitalize on them.
Engineering AV Control Like a Software Developer By Steve Greenblatt Control system programming is often a small consideration in the overall outcome and success of an AV project, leading to undesirable outcomes. Here's how we can change that.
Office Design: Balancing Capability and Usability By Steve Greenblatt As organizations are doing more with less office space, technology has to support greater flexibility for multipurpose use, reconfiguration, and a variety of applications.
Choosing the Right DSP for Your Project By Steve Greenblatt It can be argued that quality audio is the most critical component in the effectiveness of an AV system—and one of the most critical audio components is the DSP.
Design Considerations for Intelligent Buildings By Steve Greenblatt Managing the intersection of AV control and building management systems—including communication between all parties involved—is key for successful operation of intelligent buildings.
Creating an Integrated Meeting Room Experience By Steve Greenblatt One of the biggest catchphrases in the AV industry has been the “integrated experience.” What does this entail for spaces like meeting rooms?
Tips for Technicians: Broaden Your Skillset By Steve Greenblatt Looking to take things to the next level? Here’s some guidance on ways to grow professionally, add value to your employer, and help shape the industry.
True Value: Best Practices for Data Collection in AV By Steve Greenblatt System monitoring, dashboard displays, and data reporting are established topics in the professional AV conversation, but there are new reasons to get excited about these developments.
Ask and You Shall Receive: RFP Best Practices By Steve Greenblatt A request for proposal (RFP) can be a tricky feat to manage for both the specifier (client) and the bidder (contractor).
Lifecycle Programming and Control Systems By Steve Greenblatt Control system programming, like the entire AV system, should be looked at as having a finite lifespan.
The Evolution of AV Programmers and the Opportunity for a New Identity By Steve Greenblatt The shift toward standardized programming languages like C#, Javascript, Java, HTML5, and Python signals a change for the AV programmer.
AV Budgeting: Reality Check By Steve Greenblatt Taking a systematic approach to avoid disappointment.
Five Pitfalls to Avoid in Optimizing AV Systems By Steve Greenblatt With innovation growing at a rapid pace; these days, everyone is looking to optimize their investment in technology.
Are Programmers at a Crossroad? By Steve Greenblatt One of the big moves being made by Crestron, as well as other manufacturers in the control space, is to provide more solutions that do not require programming in the true sense of the word.
Technicians Need Updating By Steve Greenblatt As our industry has transitioned into the era of digital video, network communications, and IP control, the skillset needed to test, troubleshoot, and commission AV systems successfully has evolved.
