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I wanted to kick off 2017 with advice and insight into the AV job market. This month, gather knowledge from a 30 year recruiting veteran, Rick Best, CSAM. Rick walks us through the current job market, common mistakes that job seekers make and some other really tactical steps that an AV pro should make to […]

This month I have the privilege of having a return visit by Dusty Kraatz, owner of XI Media Productions and award-winning video producer, responsible for the world’s first live 4K video stream. While we chat briefly about 4K and the current state of technology, this episode uses 4K content as the framework to push you […]

Have anyone else ever found it ironic that an industry built to enable communication hasn’t always been the best at communicating its story? Well, this month we get a few tips on how to rectify that issue from a longtime consultant to the AV industry, Elizabeth Eames, owner of Contemporary Communications Consulting. Listen closely as […]

Have you ever struggled to convince a client that “Yes, acoustics in this meeting room actually DO impact outcomes of meetings?” Well, this month our guest, consultant and expert, Andrea Sullivan of BrainStrength Systems, lends us some scientific brain data to support that argument! From optimizing AV for best learning environments to understanding that designing […]

This month I had the great luck of spending a few minutes with Jeff Loether, president of Electro-Media Design. Jeff has 25+ years of AV design experience and he shares some of the coolest ideas and inspiration. I mean, it’s cool folks. Like how experience is the creation of emotional memory and emotion is often […]

If you’ve hesitated to step into the next phase of video because you’re unsure about costs, technology or business case, then you need to listen to this podcast! As always, host Midori Connolly has hunted down the most interesting Subject Matter Expert she could find. Dusty Kraatz, owner and producer at XI Media Productions gives […]

This month host Midori Connolly chats with Heidi Welker, vice president of marketing at Freeman AV Canada. Heidi shares some fantastic stories and ideas to help inspire and educate anyone looking to create a green policy and then carry it out on an ongoing basis. One idea that I thought was particularly interesting was the […]

If you are a live events professional, you know how mission critical the Wi-Fi and bandwidth can be for the success of an event. We will all recall the awkward event moment when Steve Jobs had to ask the room to turn of their devices because it was killing the bandwidth — and many of […]

Just like this show, there has been a widespread shift from a focus on simply green (not the cleaning product) to generating “good” AV. Part of this equation is still sustainability, but it also takes into account innovation, creativity and doing things such as treating your people better. This conversation with Richard Blackwell, founder of […]

This month, I have the pleasure of chatting with Nigel Sharp, the founder and CEO of presentation software Voiceboard by Lionsharp. A global company based in both Armenia and the U.S., this technology was designed with the idea that presentations will achieve true engagement when the interface to present becomes more natural. We have a […]