Upgrade Your Audio System: How To Know When It’s Time

Common Red Flag Over time, even the best audio systems require upgrades as hardware inevitably loses performance and efficiency in the later stages of the lifecycle. However, like eyesight, these systems can degrade so gradually that you may not even notice until you hear a new one. These early warning signs can alert you that […]

Remote Management Software Enhances and Elevates Videoconferencing

Conferencing Software Accommodates IT Staff and Employees Today’s conferencing software must support a wide range of employee devices, enabling them to connect and collaborate with ease from an office, home, or coffee shop, while also ensuring that the quality of any meeting experience is equal, regardless of location or device. Bose Professional Work Configuration and […]

Maintaining Church Sound Systems To Achieve Optimal Performance

Eyeball the Systems Above Sound systems require periodic visual inspections. Installed PA systems are all mounted in one manner or another, either attached to walls or other architectural elements, or “flown” (i.e., suspended from ceiling-level rigging). All of the supports should be regularly inspected for deterioration like corrosion. This preventative surveillance is recommended by leading […]

The AV Tech Support Roles IT Managers Need for Success

Overcoming Challenges to Harness the Benefits The roles of IT managers and technical teams are changing. They now encompass managing what’s on the network — both company-owned and personal devices — how each meeting space is used, users’ expectations, and security. That means it’s more critical than ever to have the right person with the […]

Videoconferencing Trends eBook

Colleagues who once gathered in person now collaborate across unified communications platforms, and classmates are learning alongside one another in hybrid learning environments. In the near future, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), cloud services, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), spatial audio, gamification, and UC integration will again transform the way people collaborate with […]

Videoconferencing: 5 Tips To Host Inclusive Online Meetings

Next Steps Digital meeting equity is a critical consideration to maximizing productivity and delivering the best possible employee experience in today’s hybrid work landscape. Technology is making it easier than ever to support meetings that are productive, create space for everyone to speak, and accommodate accessibility concerns. Getting the right audio and visual solutions in […]

Portable Sound Meets the Immovable Space

Portable Sound System Best Practices As we’ve seen, modern portable sound systems automate a lot of their functionality — but there are practices that can further enhance the benefits. Loudspeaker positioning: A key metric is dispersion: the area within which a PA’s sound is distributed, expressed as degrees, and measured horizontally and vertically. Sound system […]

Meeting Room Acoustics: A Combination of Physics and Technology

Other Acoustical Solutions There are also more active solutions available, including Bose Professional’s EdgeMax EM180 loudspeaker. Its waveguide, which manages the directional propagation of sound energy, keeps that energy off of reflective surfaces such as walls or windows and can lessen the need for passive acoustical treatments like absorption panels. Similarly, Bose Professional Videobar VB1 […]

Solving Knowledge Workers’ Burnout With Technology

What Leads To Burnout? Newport advises that knowledge workers follow the evolutionary human trait of feeling rewarded when they make a plan that succeeds. That ability is one of the core skills of knowledge workers who are responsible for designing sales and marketing campaigns to closing business deals or devising long-term investment strategies. The issue […]

A Guide to Acoustic Treatment in the Workplace

Acoustic Panels Acoustic panels are typically made of compressed mineral wool or foam that “cleans” a meeting area of sound debris, which can disrupt collaboration and presentations. Panels are often preferred because the fibers or pores in their material vibrates from the sound energy, increasing friction with the pores and fibers around them and transforming […]

Video Conferencing Setup Tips for Hybrid Classroom Environments

Optimize Video Conferencing Setups for Hybrid Classrooms When classrooms were first going virtual, schools and universities were under serious pressure to deploy any technology that would enable students to remotely join classes. After having navigated a steep initial learning curve, many educators now want to make sure they have a video conferencing system in place […]

Creating Scalable Videoconferencing Solutions for Your Organization

Defining Scalability Put simply, scalability means supporting a variable number of people and endpoints that can communicate simultaneously. More specifically, it means supporting participant numbers that can fit into a pair of huddle rooms in the morning yet also accommodate dozens of participants on the same platform that afternoon. Furthermore, a videoconferencing system must now […]

Event Technology 101: Tips for Managing Multiroom Events

Types of Multiroom Events In today’s business landscape, companies often hold a variety of large events that mix large spaces with smaller breakout rooms or pair in-person participants with virtual attendees. Examples include: Industry conferences with speakers and breakout sessions Customer success days and conferences Networking and professional development seminars In-person recruiting events Trade shows […]

 
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