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Activate Smart Cities with Digital Signage

In order to unlock the potential of smart cities, digital signage must be used to provide information that is locally relevant, real-time, and actionable.

March 15, 2017 Matt Caywood Leave a Comment

The term “smart cities” is thrown around to describe almost any technology project in a city — a Google search for the term yields upward of 18 million results. But what does the term really mean? Many current smart cities projects rely on new data flowing from the Internet of Things, in which small computers […]

How To Use Infotainment to Get More Digital Signage Viewers

You already know you can use your digital signage to engage, assist, inform and motivate your audience, but there’s another thing you can do with your displays – entertain.

February 23, 2017 Trey Hicks Leave a Comment

You already know you can use your digital signage to engage, assist, inform and motivate your audience, but there’s another thing you can do with your displays – entertain. Too often, corporate communications are dull, drab and quickly become part of the background noise. But who doesn’t like fun? Adding entertaining and fun messages to […]

Multiculturalism and Digital Signage at the Modern University

Digital signage can help universities practice inclusion in various ways.

January 30, 2017 Debbie DeWitt Leave a Comment

Multiculturalism is a term that is everywhere these days in education. This is a way to promote educational achievement in students by using a set of strategies and materials that promote the contributions of different cultures to society, while encouraging inclusion, democracy, inquiry and critical thinking, skill acquisition and self-reflection. Since our society is becoming […]

Interview: Mike Kilian of Mvix Talks GenMe and Digital Signage

How can digital signage be used to prepare this generation for the real-world professional workplace? Mike Kilian explains.

January 24, 2017 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

TD: Why is it so important to use technology, like digital signage, to reach today’s students? MK: Today’s students have been plugged into technology and connectivity essentially since they were born. More traditional methodologies of reaching students – printed media, non-digital media, textbooks – those types of mediums are not as well embraced. The attention […]

How IT Channel Pros Use Digital Signage to be Noticed

Signage technology is becoming a weapon of choice in the on-going battle to grasp the attention of consumers.

December 28, 2016 Rich Freeman Leave a Comment

Late in 2014, researchers in Microsoft’s Canadian subsidiary surveyed 2,000 people to see if the internet, mobile devices, and social media services really were shortening attention spans as widely suspected. The results? On average, study participants could concentrate on one thing for just eight seconds. That’s down from 12 seconds as recently as the year […]

Make Digital Signage Interactive for Today’s Millennial Students

There are many ways to augment digital signage with interactivity to appeal to new generations.

December 26, 2016 Debbie DeWitt Leave a Comment

Call them Generation Y, Generation Now or Millennials – they are already a huge part of the workforce, or attending colleges and universities to get educated and trained. They are easily the most technologically savvy generation in history, using a vast array of interactive technologies to meet, chat, plan, shop and work. It stands to […]

Promote and Support Extracurricular Activities with Digital Signage

There are numerous benefits to offering a comprehensive ECA program, and your digital screens can be an integral part of promoting it.

December 22, 2016 Ellyce Kelly Leave a Comment

Studies show what educators already know: students that participate in extracurricular activities (ECAs) – such as performing arts, sports, publications, practical labs, student government, honors society and academic clubs – have higher GPAs, score better on assessment tests, have better attendance and frequently go on to higher education. This is especially true in high school, […]

Imo’s Pizza Digital Signage Menus

December 16, 2016 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Imo’s Pizza were looking for a digital menu board solution to allow them to quickly change and manage digital menu board content in response to the FDA’s pending legislation that requires all restaurants with more than 20 locations to display calorie information on their menus. The Tech Decision Since all the menu boards at all […]

Knitting Your District Together with Digital Signage

Digital signage is an invaluable resource for K-12 schools, but it doesn’t have to be limited to just individual institutions.

October 31, 2016 Trey Hicks Leave a Comment

With just a bit of planning, you can unify your whole school district using the power of modern visual communications. When it’s web-based, your digital signage system isn’t locked into a single location – it can go literally anywhere there’s an internet connection. Each school can have their own playlists of messages, with information relevant […]

How to Keep Your Digital Signage Safe

When it comes to security with digital signage on campus, there are both physical and network threats to consider.

September 29, 2016 Ed Dickison Leave a Comment

Digital signs are being installed at an ever growing rate on many campuses. As educational, administrative, athletic, and informational units see the effectiveness of these signs they want one or more to tell their story. These screen can use multiple forms of digital information from static to dynamic and allow interaction with the viewing public. […]