Digital Signage

Audience.Campus™ Provides Effective Digital Signage Communication and Emergency Messaging for Educational Institutions

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Capital Networks Ltd (CNL), a leading global provider of broadcasting and dynamic digital signage software, has announced a new market initiative into the US Education sector. The Audience.Campus™ offering has been designed specifically for educational installations, enabling high schools, colleges and universities to improve communication with students across multi-site campuses, as well as within individual faculties or departments. The solution can run up to 100 channels simultaneously through a single deployment – which ensures that individual departments can control the content on their broadcasts and deliver hyper-local information like room schedules, or class notifications – all of which can be uploaded easily by staff or students.

And from Digital Signage Expo:

Audience.Campus, the latest offering from Capital Networks Ltd., focuses on providing capital-networks-audience-090309educational facilities with all the tools needed to enhance campus communications and emergency messaging through digital signage.

By using the company’s Audience software platform, which is able to run up to 100 channels simultaneously through a single deployment, staff and students have the ability to control and deliver information ranging from multi-site campus wide communications to faculty specific hyper-local content.

Because campus messaging basically consists of two types of information — universal campus-wide content applicable to everyone, and hyper-local information specifically created for a specific department or screen — Audience.Campus ensures the ability to deliver both using one centralized platform.

“Centralization is the key to effective and timely emergency messaging. While individual departments demand their own signage control and programming, emergency messaging must be able to pre-empt or over-ride departmental messages,” said Blake Reeves, manager of business development for Markham, Ont.-based Capital Networks.

“It is for this reason many campuses are looking to standardize on a single digital signage

According to the company, an increasing number of educational establishments hoping to create and display broadcast quality information and emergency channels on a limited budget are looking to take advantage of the Audience.Campus solution. Colleges already using the Audience software platform include Purdue University, Case Western Reserve University, University of Regina, and NAIT – Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. vendor to synchronize emergency messaging. As well as delivering a vast array of day-to-day information, a dynamic digital signage solution can save lives in emergencies by ensuring the students are aware of events and have real-time information about where they should go.”


Visix Names Expression Award Winners

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Over at the Daily DOOH, writer Gail Chiasson has posted a list of the Visix Expression Award winners:

Visix Inc. [1] has announced the six grand prize winners of the company’s second annual Expression Awards.

An Atlanta, Georgia (U.S.) company, Visix offers digital signage software, room and event scheduling solutions, and applications for targeted messaging to desktops and portable devices. It holds the contest to recognize the creative efforts of its AxisTV digital signage software customers. The company received nearly 200 entries for this year’s awards.

The judging committee, comprised of marketing, communications and design specialists, decided that the following organizations excelled in each category, based on technical design, creativity and communications effectiveness:

Best Visual Communications Campaign:
Anadarko Petroleum [2] – Anadarko 2008 Kids Day

Best Composite Layout:
Virginia Commonwealth University [3] – Campus Communications

Best Original – Motion Content:
Reeve Union-UW Oshkosh [4] – Homecoming 2009 Teaser

Best Original – Still Bulletin:
University of Texas Medical School at Houston [5] – Have you been punched yet?

Best Remix -Motion Content:
RBC Bank [6] – Backpack Buddies Food Shelf Program

Best Remix – Still Bulletin:
Stamp Marketing, University of Maryland [7] – Battle of the Bands

“This year’s entries show a true sophistication in both communications planning and graphic design for digital signage,” says Deborah Wilson-Dewitt, marketing communications manager for Visix. “By staying involved in clients’ designs, ideas and communications processes, we’re able to recognize and reward our customers, as well as share their efforts to educate and inspire other clients.”

The Expression Awards are part of Visix’s ongoing strategy to bring AxisTV users together, to spotlight creative abilities and system management skills, and to recognize Visix customers for their contributions in the field of visual communications.