This week we posted a blog about 3D screens. A few hours after the post we were bombareded with emails from companies who manufacture 3D glasses. I guess 3D glasses are a consumer product and it’s something that most people would not carry with them. It doesn’t make sense to have a 3D screen in a public environment because no one would be carrying 3D glasses. There are 3D Screens out in the market that does not require the 3D glasses and these are the products that we will be seeing in the near future. We ask our readers what they think about 3D screens.

Category: Digital Signage Blog Products

Tomorrow (AEST) is the beginning of our long weekend. Given that it’s Easter, we decided to do something very different and fun on our blog. As of tomorrow, 22 August 2011 at 10am (AEST) we will hide a virtual Easter egg (just a picture) on  a particular post. You will need to find this post and the virtual Easter egg and place a comment “Happy Easter digital signage blog!”. The first person to do this will receive a free advertising tile on the right hand side of the digital signage blog sidebar for 12 months. Obviously, the image on the tile will need to be reviewed and approved  by us.

Happy Easter everyone!

Category: Digital Signage Blog Events

Written by Guest Blogger Eugene Capon II from Capon Design

I first started in the digital signage space a year and a half ago. All my experience was in graphic design, web design and print. After a 3 month internship where there was an intense learning curve about the digital signage space, I was hired as the head of creative for a digital signage manufacturer. As a requirement, I often did tech support for those
trying to design their own creative. But after a while I noticed a trend. 90% of the phone calls were from print shops who have had years of experience working in print space and were now trying to tackle this new medium. This tutorial will help you get started in making content for digital displays as it addresses differences between the print and digital mediums. continue reading »

Category: Digital Signage Guest Posts

It’s official, after many years of blogging we have decided to open our doors and accept guest bloggers. After some discussions we decided to invite digital signage industry experts from all over the world to help us share their industry experiences and insights with the rest of the digital signage community.
It is an open invitation, however, we are selective on the content.

There are some guidelines that need to be taken into thought when producing each post.
We will NOT be accepting:

• Advertisements about your company
  We will include a short description about who you are and your company but we will not accept a post that is solely focused on advertising your company or your products.
• PRs that get splatted across the internet
  We want unique content so if it’s a PR that has already been submitted on the internet we will not accept it.
• Duplicate blog posts
  Please do not copy and paste content from your current blog, Unique content is what makes the digital signage blog different and we would like to keep it this way
• Posts that indemnify or scrutinise other people or companies
  As the title suggests, this part is pretty much self-explanatory.  Please keep your content professional.

We will be limiting to publish 1 post per guest blogger a week.
We are looking for guest bloggers that have a passion about digital signage and are not purely looking for an avenue to advertise their company – we have a paid advertising section for this! So if you think you fit in this criteria and are interested to become a guest blogger for the digital signage blog then send us an email at info@digitalsignageblog.com with a short description on what you can offer to this blog and we’ll get back to you.

Category: Digital Signage Blog News, Digital Signage Guest Posts, Featured Post

This was a video clip that one of our digital signage portal members Travis from Blue Pony submitted in the discussion forum and its about Augmented reality. This blew me away so I thought I’d share this with our digital signage blog readers so have a look at it yourself and let me know what you think.

Category: Digital Signage Blog News, Digital Signage Blog Video

We are constantly receiving emails and comments from people asking to publish articles on our blog. Since the first day we launched this website we wanted to keep this digital signage blog as our own blog. That is, we write and publish our own articles. But because of the constant requests we MAY and I repeat we MAY be thinking of having guests posts. That’s why we’re asking you, our readers what you think.

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Category: Digital Signage Blog Info, Digital Signage Polls, Featured Post

Screens, whether they are a plasma, LED, LCD or even a projector – these are one of the most critical components in any digital signage project. At advertise me we always recommend our clients to install a commercial screen rather than a residential screen but that’s going to be a different topic all together. So today,  I decided to take a photo of some of the packaged screens we store and post it on this blog. Below is the image.

Advertise Me is a reseller of many of the large screen companies such as Panasonic, Samsung, NEC, Sony, Phillips, Acer, Asus, Viewsonic, LG and Mitsubishi. So before purchasing your next screen for your upcoming project, make sure you  from us and I’m sure you won’t be disappointed (Australian Companies only).

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Category: Digital Signage Blog News

This week’s klip is from Angela, a shopper at Liverpool Markets Sydney Australia. She sent us a photo of what looks like a projector screen at the food court area. She advised that there seemed to have been an issue with the projector as everything on the screen was blue in colour. Hopefully someone will fix this soon as it looks really ugly.

projector at liverpool markets sydney australia

Thanks to Angela an Aussie and a long time reader of the digital signage blog.

If you have klips you would like to share with the rest of our readers let us know by sending an email to info@digitalsignageblog.com

Category: Digital Signage Klips

When you think of anything digital, from technology to electronics, robotics, and large screens, you would normally think of one place that has it all – Japan.

It is one of the leading countries in the world in technology, and at the forefront of digital advertising it is noticed by the whole world.

So it is a rare sight to see this next klip showing a large digital signage board made up of 9 tiles go wrong. Unfortunate enough, the digital signage board remained unattended to throughout the whole night until the next morning.

Thanks to Andrew who is a long time reader of the digital signage blog and currently resides in Japan for this klip.

Category: Digital Signage Klips

Besides the hot and then rainy weather in Sydney Australia, we thought we’d do something crazy and clean up our spammed comments since it was taking up a considerable amount of space in our database. We had 23,123 comments marked as spam since the beginning of last year and most of them were not relating to digital signage. The process of cleaning up this spammed comments in WordPress isn’t as straight forward as I thought it would be. Under the Edit Comments section there is a button called “Empty Spam”. Obviously I want to empty  these comments so when I click on the button the process seems to time out… probably due to the number of spam comments. I basically end up getting a white page after about 40 seconds. When I logged back in to see how many spam comments were removed, the system somehow managed to remove about 1000 comments before it timed out – that’s what I’m guessing happened. If you do the maths, I had to do this about 20 times and I also just calculated that the ratio of the number of post to the number of spam comments  is approximately 1:107 – this is a large number?

So, to avoid this in future we will aim to remove spam comments on a monthly basis and please… don’t spam our digital signage blog. We have noticed several businesses adding their website links in their comments, although we don’t prevent you from doing so or added a plugin feature to automatically remove these, it does look a “bit” obvious on what you’re trying to do.

Category: Digital Signage Weekend Fun

advertise me would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

To all our clients and business partners thank you for your support and we look forward to catching up with you all next year.

To our readers, we hope you’ve enjoyed reading our blog posts and don’t forget to send us your klips so we can share it with the rest of the world.

We are excited and look forward to 2010 as we anticipate this to be a BIG year for us.

Category: Digital Signage Blog News

Here we would like to introduce a new section called Klips. This allows anybody anywhere in the world to share their digital signage moment with the rest of our readers.

If you would like to share your digital signage snap with us and the digital signage community, please send in your klips to info@digitalsignageblog.com with a brief of your snap, including location where it was taken, your name and/or business name.

At the end of each week we will select a few interesting klips and post them here. So keep an eye out, and get snapping!

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Category: Digital Signage Klips, Featured Post

Today we are officially releasing the advertise me promo for digital signage. This short clip was professionally designed and developed by Blue Pony and showcases our main digital signage website (http://www.advertiseme.com.au), the digital signage blog (http://www.digitalsignageblog.com) and the digital signage portal (http://www.digitalsignageportal.com). So here it is, (if you have the bandwidth watch it in HD):

Who is Blue Pony?

Blue Pony is a premier digital content provider for limitless applications who produces custom as well as stock content.

So what do you think about this video promotion?

Feel free to submit your answer as a comment.

Category: Digital Signage Blog News, Featured Post

This week we were approached by an individual who was interested in purchasing one of our domain names. We are not too sure what their intentions were but we thought that for this weekend fun post we would ask our readers how much do they think this domain name (www.digitalsignageblog.com) is worth. By the way… we are NOT selling this domain name.

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Category: Digital Signage Blog Info, Digital Signage Blog News, Digital Signage Polls, Digital Signage Weekend Fun

We decided not to post anything this week as we have been informed that our hosting provider will be moving this website to a new server – it’s meant to have increased
performance and reliability.

So just to be on the safe side, we decided not to post anything until we know that we’ve been fully migrated across. Until then, we hope you’re having a wonderful day.

Category: Digital Signage Blog News

Image source from Zela

We wanted to remind our readers to take part in our digital signage polls. We want you to interact with us and our other readers and I believe this is what makes our blog so different and unique.

So he is a link to previous digital signage blog polls.

Now if you have an interesting poll you would like us to publish let us know.

Category: Digital Signage Blog News, Digital Signage Polls

Who are we?

We are a group of technology enthusiasts who are passionate with the uses of gadgets and nifty pieces of equipment.
When digital signage came into our picture, we got excited and decided to take it for a ride. In fact, with the tremendous popular rise of digital signage and its applications everyday, it has now become part of our profession.

Our first success was Advertise Me, an established digital signage company in Australia.
Through establishing many clients and partners, we created the Digital Signage Portal.
And if that wasn’t enough, we decided what the heck – let’s blog about it!

So what is this Blog about?

We have been operating in the digital signage industry since its birth in Australia, and have come across many experiences in this line of business.

Apart from working, we also obtain many useful sources of news and information that we think would be beneficial to the digital signage community.

So where else would we collaborate all our experiences and news? Right here of course!

Contributors

There are currently several contributors to the digital signage blog.

From time to time we like to invite others to write something or submit a topic to us, and we will post it on the blog.
Having said that, if you would like to share a post with us, feel free to send it to info@digitalsignageblog.com.

Don’t forget …

To visit our Digital Signage Portal to interact with the digital signage community from around the world or visit the Digital Signage Articles for a mix of different digital signage articles from around the world.

Now if you’re looking to exchange links visit the Digital Signage Experts.

Category: Digital Signage Blog Info, Digital Signage Blog News

Today we thought we’d run a poll to see how many people who visit our blog are actually from the digital signage industry. So if you have 2 spare seconds we hope you can participate in this poll – yes it literally just takes 2 seconds.

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Category: Digital Signage Blog News

Did you know that you can subscribe to our digital signage blog RSS feed? All you have to do is simply add the following URL to your favourite RSS reader http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/feed/

Alternatively, you can simply subscribe via email. Click here to subscribe via email.

Category: Digital Signage Blog News

The digital signage portal is a forum for promoting and growing YOUR business, with the aim to lift the level of awareness of your business and digital signage.

We are excited to announce additional features to the digital signage portal website to make your experience and member profile more personalised. The whole intention for establishing the digital signage portal was to provide a means for businesses to connect with one another and also with potential customers but more importantly we wanted to centralise the digital signage community and information in one single location – that’s when the digital signage portal was born.

Now, here is a short list of some of the features we have recently added:

1. Biz Wall – you are now able to write messages on another member’s wall. Basically this can be used to share information with each other, keep each other updated and to improve communication.

2. myBlog – we have added the facility for registered members to create their own blog entries and share this with the rest of the digital signage community. We understand that most of you don’t have a business blog or don’t have either the technical expertise or knowledge to set one up. So we’ve done most of the hard work for you. All you have to do now is just post your entries.

3. myComments – you are now able to comment on articles and other peoples blog posts.

4. Member List – this is the list of all the current members registered on the portal and its something we forgot to originally include when we first launched the website. Think of this as a large contact list so you can get in touch with other registered members.

5. Twitter Status – for those of you that have a twitter account then you now have the option to display your twitter status on your profile.

6. myNoticeboard – yes this is your own noticeboard that you can use to add messages to your profile. You can use it to tell others what you’re doing…basically use it as a noticeboard.

7. More features – we’ve added so many other features which may take too long to list so why not log in to the digital signage portal and see it for yourself. We will soon be adding a dedicated page and video to capture all these features so keep an eye out for this.

For those of you who haven’t visited the website in a while, I highly recommend you to log back in and pay a visit and don’t forget to add your business logo to your profile in order to expose your business further – as you are already aware branding is very important.If you need help with this visit our F.A.Q section.

We always love to hear your feedback so let us know what you think or what you would like to see on the digital signage portal.

Have you read the latest digital signage portal newsletters? Click here to view the latest newsletters.

Feel free to submit your answer as a comment.

Category: Digital Signage Blog Info, Digital Signage Blog News, Digital Signage Newsletter

advertise me is in the process of integrating the digital signage blog with the digital signage portal (www.digitalsignageportal.com). This will enable registered users in the digital signage portal to post one single blog message for both the Digital Signage Blog and Portal. Our aim is to make things simple for our users and business partners.

Come back to this site soon…

Category: Digital Signage Blog News