Are your conversations private? Whispering or even a conversation behind closed doors doesn't always guarantee someone else can't hear you.
With the rise of open office floor plans and the need to protect patient privacy, speech privacy has become more critical than ever before. So, what is sound masking, and how does it help speech privacy? Sound masking is a barely noticeable sound that is similar to airflow, but it's specially tuned to make human speech less intelligible.
Smarter Systems donated two SMART Boards to Rise Academy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Smarter Systems CEO Ned Coleman said, "as a partner, we can provide tools that help lead to enhanced learning outcomes for the students they serve." Rise Academy is a small school, just getting their start and rely on the generosity of partners. Coleman added, "Smarter Systems got its start by serving the local education community, so a partnership with Rise is our way of honoring our roots."
We know it's tempting to want to do it all yourself; it happens to all of us in various aspects of life. Whether the motivation is money, time, or pride, you hold on to that project to complete yourself. However, we all know it can quickly become more of a burden on your time and money than you ever could have imagined. In the end, hiring professionals would have been best. If you are considering taking on a meeting space technology overhaul on your own, here are five signs you may want to go ahead and call in the professionals (also known as AV Integrators).
The business world has significantly changed over the past decade. You'll find lots of large open floor plan spaces, adjustable desks, and maybe even natural light if you're lucky enough to escape the fluorescent bulbs. As a way to adapt, we're now seeing a massive spike in huddle rooms or huddle spaces in every industry you can imagine.
Some of the most important decisions happen inside conference rooms. It’s typically the heart of a business and hopefully where you celebrate many successes. That’s why it’s so important to get it right. While there are a million ways to make a conference room work, there is one way to ensure it’s a failure: get the display size wrong.
During our search for the perfect memes that illustrate everyday office life, we found a few that teach valuable lessons when it comes to improving your conference room experience and the AV technology you find in those spaces. Don’t let your meeting be the next meme inspiration.
The most important aspect of a small conference room is simplicity. A small conference room typically has dimensions no less than 12 x 15 feet and no larger than 14 x 18 feet. It is designed to seat 4 to 8 people comfortably. Every small conference room should have an appropriately sized monitor or projection system, a reliable audio setup that allows everyone to hear, and a quality conference phone.
In today's workplace, the most common challenge our clients say they face is the time it takes to get a meeting started. When they walk into a conference room, they want to begin immediately. Time is valuable, and the number of meetings spaces are often limited. Losing meeting time connecting to the room's technology is inefficient and frustrating.
It's not the answers that enlighten but the questions. You've heard some version of that quote before and it's no different here. Knowing the questions to ask before overhauling the AV technology in your meeting space will set you up for success.
What is your ideal classroom set up? Any certain classroom audio visual technologies you think you need? Do you think there is a perfect classroom? University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism’s Reese News Lab is trying to accomplish just that.
We caught up with Gary Kayye who has been teaching new media technologies, branding and advertising at UNC for ten years. He played a huge role in the creation of this prototype room. Kayye says “This classroom was designed with millennials and generation Z in mind, and they learn differently than anyone over the age of 30 or 35 years old. They are electronic collaborators.”