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WEBCAST svconline.com/webcasts HDMI for Digital Signage 10 FEATURE AV at the Olympics SITE SURVEYS Large Home Theater MSC Poesia Cruise Ship BMW 10 24 Big Cedar Lodge Manitoba Museum 6 ON THE CIRCUIT 64 SOUNDING BOARD By Chief Editor Cynthia Wisehart. By Senior Editor George Petersen. NETWORK 10 THE BUZZ 60 MARKETPLACE The latest installation case studies, news, and industry events. 63 ADVERTISER INDEX ASSOCIATIONS FOCUS Stay up to date on the latest technology news 19 at blog.svconline.com/briefi ngroom. Select News from CEDIA, NSCA, and InfoComm. press representatives post company news several times a day. Check back often to get the MARKETING MIX latest news on product releases, mergers and 24 LINKING IN aquisitions, and product applications. How you can take advantage of the largest business networking site. 4 svconline.com | r ON THE CIRCUIT Digital Projection (DP) is tweeting; so is Crestron. You can follow them and you’ll see how differ- ently they approach the platform—DP in a more traditional marketing voice, Crestron more irrev- erently. Set up your TweetDeck to pull in their A PENTON MEDIA PUBLICATION www.svconline.com streams and others you think are relevant to your work. That way, your daily news is from sources EDITORIAL Cynthia Wisehart you are following and most interested in. You editor, [email protected] Jessaca Gutierrez can follow us; you can follow Gary Kayye; your managing and online editor, customers can follow you, and vice versa. Tweets [email protected] Lucy Sutton can be either complete thoughts or notifications senior production editor, [email protected] Andrew Ward that point you to more information. They’re 140 characters in length, production editor, [email protected] about as long as this sentence. George Petersen senior consulting editor, [email protected] Michael Bridwell, DP’s marketing manager, is sold on social me- Trevor Boyer senior contributing editor, [email protected] dia—actually LinkedIn even more than Twitter. He likes the LinkedIn Bennett Liles groups where you can pose or answer a technical question; the dia- contributing editor, AV, [email protected] Jeff Sauer logues are often substantive, and engagement has grown since the contributing editor, video, [email protected] Isabelle Pantazis days when LinkedIn was essentially a repository of résumés. Now, it is art director, [email protected] a significantly more dynamic place; for more, see our Marketing Mix Amanda Fletcher designer, amanda@amandafletcherdesign.com column on p. 24. Also in this issue, we scratch the surface of Facebook as part of a new mission to inform you about professional network- BUSINESS Kim Paulsen ing resources, including associations, certification programs, and senior vice president, technology media group training—all of which are on the rise (see p. 42). Tune in regularly at [email protected] Wayne Madden svconline.com to make your next networking move. group publisher, [email protected] Shahla Hebets We decided to aggregate and analyze this information because publisher, [email protected] we hear repeatedly that networking is more important than ever. Certainly, AV has always been a small, tight-knit industry, and peer SALES Mark Holland networking, training, and knowledge sharing have been a means of Western sales manager, [email protected] Paul Leifer survival in the world that is largely self-defined and self-policed. I Eastern sales manager, [email protected] used to say when I was an end-user that we worked without adult Richard Woolley Europe, [email protected] supervision, because we didn’t have the formalized standards of Mashy Yoshikawa industries such as broadcasting, and because we often relied on in- Japan, [email protected] genuity and passion—and a lot of making it up as we went along. MARKETING That’s still the case. Although we are trying to standardize Kirby Asplund marketing director, [email protected] and share knowledge, I discovered that much of what was true 20 Kim Good marketing/events planner, [email protected] years ago is still true on a bigger scale. This is a people industry. Crystal Shires No one is an island, and your next job, or help with your existing marketing manager, [email protected] one, will come from a direct personal communication—whether in CLASSIFIEDS person or online. Julie Dahlstrom marketplace/classified sales, We included some of the many associations that serve our vertical [email protected] markets—these are your customers’ associations. Many of them have AV memberships and/or accept presentations from AV professionals. PRODUCTION Lisa Parks There really is no substitute for the in-person connection. From our vice president, production, [email protected] Curt Pordes own peer associations, we checked in on their current certification production director, [email protected] options, as well as aggregating some of the certification options from Melissa Langstaff production manager, [email protected] manufacturers. We’ll continue to bring you all this information and Diane Straughen group production manager, [email protected] more at svconline.com. We’d like to help you build your business in Linda Sargent 2010 by finding you the grassroots networking and marketing op- classified production coordinator, [email protected] portunities that will improve your skills, knowledge, and connections. We hope this will be a helpful complement to the technical coverage AUDIENCE MARKETING Marie Evans you rely on and expect from us. group audience marketing director, [email protected] CYNTHIA WISEHART 6 svconline.com | r )$ &$ $# 0 + , $ +00 &+0 !"# $% ! &' # ' (%# $% &) $ # # *+ #% ,! "-"!" ++-# -+# +% -+ , ".% ($ "% #++#"% #" -% *+ -+# "%$+ *+ +$$ ! $+, +% -* +%+.%# -#"% ! " # $ ! "# # $ $% ! 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