Digital signage has had a place here on campus for a few years now, its is
slowly becoming more important. Unfortunately, I have turned into the
resident expert of the system administering the server, managing users,
training, etc.
I am trying to back away and just maintain the responsibility of the
installation of the displays, channel players and
associated infrastructure. My question is, who within your organizations
is in charge of making sure that the content that is being displayed is
appropriate, training the users, managing the server and software. Lastly,
what products are you using and how are things working from from your point
of view.
--Mike
___________________________
Michael J. Roberts, CTS, DMC-E
mjrobe...@colgate.edu
Multimedia Systems Technician
Colgate University
442 Case-Geyer
13 Oak Dr.
Hamilton, NY 13346
Communications and Marketing (PR) handles the majority of the creative content for the digital signage on our campus and gives out templates to the individual departments so that they can control their own content too.
An IT employee does the server maintenance and basic training to the departments on how to use the templates, scheduling their content, etc.
We - do the installations of the displays and associated infrastructure. It's a nice agreement.
Best regards,
Emily Trapp
Director, IMS
SUNY New Paltz
1 Hawk Drive LC 2B New Paltz, New York 12561 (845) 257-3634 - Voice
(845) 257-3646 - Fax
www .newpaltz.edu/ ims www . stc . suny .edu
"Engagement will become the central issue for education in the future and learning won't necessarily be defined by how much 'seat time' a student has put in." Stoloff
From: "Michael J. Roberts" < mjroberts @ colgate .edu> To: av-1@ googlegroups .com Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:46:34 AM Subject: [av-1] How are you managing your Digital Signage?
Digital signage has had a place here on campus for a few years now, its is slowly becoming more important. Unfortunately, I have turned into the resident expert of the system administering the server, managing users, training, etc.
I am trying to back away and just maintain the responsibility of the installation of the displays, channel players and associated infrastructure. My question is, who within your organizations is in charge of making sure that the content that is being displayed is appropriate, training the users, managing the server and software. Lastly, what products are you using and how are things working from from your point of view.
--Mike
___________________________ Michael J. Roberts, CTS , DMC-E mjroberts @ colgate .edu Multimedia Systems Technician
Colgate University 442 Case-Geyer 13 Oak Dr. Hamilton, NY 13346
Office: 315.228.6749
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We work closely with Comm and Marketing to make sure that the signage has the appropriate university image between the templates, logos and university id's. The departments and colleges are responsible for the creation of their content as well as making any changes and uploading to the display players. We handle all training to the users as well as managing the servers and software. Any department and college can climb on board and are responsible for the purchasing of signage players, displays and cable plant installation. This seems to work well as we only manage the back end of the system. Our choice of system was Four Winds Interactive, very robust and versatile to meet our campus needs. Feel free to call if you have more questions.
Regards
Andy Montesano
Andy Montesano, Manager
Video Technology Services
Computing and Telecommunications Services
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
Tel: 937-775-2802
andy.montes...@wright.edu<mailto:andy.montes...@wright.edu>
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Subject: [av-1] How are you managing your Digital Signage?
Digital signage has had a place here on campus for a few years now, its is slowly becoming more important. Unfortunately, I have turned into the resident expert of the system administering the server, managing users, training, etc.
I am trying to back away and just maintain the responsibility of the installation of the displays, channel players and associated infrastructure. My question is, who within your organizations is in charge of making sure that the content that is being displayed is appropriate, training the users, managing the server and software. Lastly, what products are you using and how are things working from from your point of view.
--Mike
___________________________
Michael J. Roberts, CTS, DMC-E
mjrobe...@colgate.edu<mailto:mjrobe...@colgate.edu>
Multimedia Systems Technician
Colgate University
442 Case-Geyer
13 Oak Dr.
Hamilton, NY 13346
Office: 315.228.6749<tel:315.228.6749>
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Mike
We are using Tight Rope Media Systems (have for 10years). We provide an account to whomever wants to post announcements - we train them on how- then turn them loose. We have it so that for some groups (e.g. student clubs) we preview the slides before they go on air, while with others, e.g. Public Safety, they just go to air. They have the option of using a template or uploading a file.
The other thing with TRMS is that it will take an RSS feed so if your clients are posting onto a website with a feed you need only create one slide and all announcements are automatically added.
They also have a feature for our Public Safety department where they can "take over" and only post theirs (emergencies ect..).
As far as how its setup. We have a central server that everyone logs onto and the actual DS boxes link to it separately. If they lose network connectivity they will still air what's in the buffer.
In most cases we take the output of the DS box and modulate it onto our cable TV plant so any display that has access to cable TV can become part of the DS system. Simply tune to the correct station and away you go. This also helps for special events where you can roll a display into place temporarily and plug in cable and there you go- it's a DS display.
Additionally we also have one or two that are stand alone, the small DS box is attached to the back of the display and connect with an HDMI cable (audio and video get passed). So the displays only needs Power and network to work.
Hope that helps.
Jim
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James Evans CTS, ISF-C
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
From: av-1@googlegroups.com [mailto:av-1@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael J. Roberts
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:47 AM
To: av-1@googlegroups.com
Subject: [av-1] How are you managing your Digital Signage?
Digital signage has had a place here on campus for a few years now, its is slowly becoming more important. Unfortunately, I have turned into the resident expert of the system administering the server, managing users, training, etc.
I am trying to back away and just maintain the responsibility of the installation of the displays, channel players and associated infrastructure. My question is, who within your organizations is in charge of making sure that the content that is being displayed is appropriate, training the users, managing the server and software. Lastly, what products are you using and how are things working from from your point of view.
--Mike
___________________________
Michael J. Roberts, CTS, DMC-E
mjrobe...@colgate.edu<mailto:mjrobe...@colgate.edu>
Multimedia Systems Technician
Colgate University
442 Case-Geyer
13 Oak Dr.
Hamilton, NY 13346
Office: 315.228.6749<tel:315.228.6749>
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