Scott Avitt swims several miles a week, frequently runs several miles before dawn, and is an ironman tri-athlete. And he’s
From Government Video
also one of the last players still standing in another field—cathode ray tube rebuilding. Avitt, 57, has been rebuilding picture tubes since he was 17, following in the footsteps of his father, Frank, who founded the Hawk-Eye Picture Tube Manufacturing business here in 1958. Avitt took over the corporate reins in 1976, and to this day continues to make new
CRTs out of old, but not for much longer. The migration to flat screen video displays that accompanied this country’s shift to digital broadcasting, coupled with the public’s “don’t fix it; dump it” attitude has spelled the death knell for this 52 year-old business.
Attention Hospital Marketers, AcsysInteractive is launching the first grassroots Hospital Industry survey on the use of Digital, Social Media and Emerging Marketing Technologies. Your input is needed and greatly appreciated to provide feedback on what folks in Hospital Marketing are doing, struggling with or planning.
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Last month, hospital and health system marketers from all over the country submitted more than 100 questions about topics they are interested in hearing about from their peers. It’s thanks to their curiosity that we compiled a survey intended to help you, the hospital marketer, get a better understanding of what other hospitals are doing in the digital space. The survey, which we developed with our research partner, Equation Research, is now ready for primetime! You can take the survey here
And since this is truly a grassroots effort and there will be no charge to view survey results and insights, we would really appreciate your support to get the word out about it to your peers in the industry. The more participants, the more meaningful the data will be. If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions, please post it here or feel free to email me directly at mikes@acsysinteractive.com.
We look forward to hearing from you and to sharing the results with you. Lastly, a huge thanks to the folks (“the crowd”) who took time out to provide their questions along the way. This survey is really yours and we are deeply grateful for your participation and leadership. We would also like to thank industry thought leaders @EdBennett, @ShelHoltz, @LeeAase and Mark Gothberg for their time, support and guidance along the way.
The topics and issues that your peers have identified are fascinating and will make for some great learning and benchmarks emerging from this effort. While you are thinking of it, please go ahead and take 10 minutes to take the survey now.
Legislation that could make a wide variety of communications and video technologies more accessible to millions of Americans with disabilities is working its way through Congress.
Monday (July 26), the U.S. House passed the the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, sponsored by Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. The bill goes next to the Senate.
The bill includes new provisions to expand the availability of audio descriptions of television shows to media markets all across the country; new requirements to ensure that closed captioned television programs are also closed captioned for viewing on the Internet; and measures to increase the ability for Americans who are blind to access the Internet from smart phones.
Ever considered creating your own educational video but didn’t because you could not afford the best equipment and assumed viewers only cared about video quality? Research now confirms that viewers actually care more about the content (what you say, do or provide) above video quality. This seems like one of those obvious conclusions but the [...]
We have eliminated the voice mail and phone forwarding system we’ve been using to cover after hours calls. This process has been used for the past few years but despite our best efforts we found that we periodically missed weekend support calls. While we caught more calls than we missed we decided to change and [...]
Pocket video cameras are all the rage today. Flip video started the craze with their line of Flip cameras but Kodak, Sony, Samsung and others have also introduced their own versions. Pocket cameras are easy to use and inexpensive and teachers are coming up with very creative ideas on how to incorporate them into the [...]
James Chase posted an article at Medical Marketing & Media on June 9, 2010 that says patients are not getting Internet information guidance from their doctors so big pharma should assume this role. I wonder if this m ight be an opportunity for hospitals to become more of an information hub for their patients. I [...]
Interesting new product to help older schools connect PC’s and Projectors wirelessly. From TechTools July 21, 2010 | Posted At: 06:55 AM | Author: Brian Nadel Cut the Classroom Cord Schools attempting to wire older classrooms for projectors or large screen monitors over the summer are faced with one big problem: the cables for video [...]
Without fanfare Sony has quietly discontinued their AIT line of data storage products according to a message on their storage website. This announcement impacts thousands of Sony customers and quite a few of our own who have used AIT as a video archive and back-up system to back up video content from a broadcast automation [...]
Skype is a free videoconferencing tool that can be used in a variety of settings. We use it everyday to talk with customers and remote employees. Forward thinking teachers use it in their classrooms in a variety of ways to engage their students. Here’s a list of 10 websites, articles and resources for using Skype [...]
