Posted by Johnnie Sanchez on 2015-10-25 21st Century Alex Steed Aquavision AVNationTV Captive Audio ATX CEDIA #cedia2015 Chris Heinonen Code Collective AX Coleen Sterns Leath. Paradigm Speakers Crestron DailyDOOH Dee McKeown Definitive Technology Draper Inc. Elevati Greg Schlecter Hagai Feiner Jason Griffing Jason Knott Jennifer H. Willard John Sciacca Kelleigh Welch KMB Comm Leon Speakers Louis Franke Megan Knedler Pan Tech Design Richard Fregosa Rob Simple #sexycedia Steven Brawner Terra Speakers Todd Anthony Puma TruAudio Victoria Ferrari Vincent Bruno Women in AV Women in CE Z-Wave Alliance I started the #sexycedia hashtag as a fun way to promote and connect with businesses through social media at CEDIA. 21st Century quipped back at the #sexycedia hashtag. Stay tuned for our conversation with...
Posted by Johnnie Sanchez on 2015-11-23 Julie Jacobson thinks Thread is Making a Big Mistake Thread is now stamping all of their “thread certified” home automation products with their logo. However, not all of their products work together. Jacobson writes, “The customer asks a Blue Shirt or Orange Apron: “Does this light bulb work with that door lock?”The associate responds: “They must. They both have the Thread logo.”You know the rest of the story from there.” Tim Rogers, CEO of Tivo, will step down as CEO on January 31st, 2015 Zaheer Alli has been appointed to the Northeast sales territory of Meridian America Christophe Malsot will head Crestron’s new office in Madrid, Spain Cisco is buying Acano for $700M When it comes...
Posted by Johnnie Sanchez on 2015-12-08 A buyer persona is your audience, the specific type of person you want to reach with your content. Below are 11 questions you can use for developing a BP (there might be multiple BP’s within one company and not necessarily people who just buy). I've written in my BP for a Crescendo user. ...
Posted by Johnnie Sanchez on 2016-04-08 Working for a CSP, I spend a good amount of time following Crestron in the news. So far this year a lot of attention has been given to the fact that Crestron won't be participating at CEDIA 2016. On the surface it might look like Crestron is backing away from residential systems, while the company line has been that they want to focus more on the luxury market. Plenty of questions have arisen, especially related to the future of PYNG, but I've also had conversations with integrators who wonder if Crestron is "abandoning" them. That may seem like a lot of emotion at stake over attending a trade show, but it shows you what a...
Posted by Johnnie Sanchez on 2016-10-31 Please welcome Christa Bender, the author of this blog post. -Adelyte 30 years ago, the scariest part of Halloween was getting scared as one of your friends jumped out from behind a bush or a car, scaring you as you walked by. Getting free candy was great, but I enjoyed the houses that were decorated with gore and had creepy, scary music playing. Usually those houses gave away good candy too. Nowadays, Halloween is following the path of other holidays and involving more technology to set the mood. Holiday Projection Technology If you’ve walked around most big box houses lately, you will see affordable projection systems with Halloween decorating effects. One of the companies...
