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June 01, 2009
Communication and Community
Besides the obvious goal of, like, hanging up a bunch of digital signs, our goals in undertaking this project included avoiding duplicated work (imagine how much would be duplicated if even a hundred groups installed separate systems!) and providing an opportunity for the campus IT community to work together. I think we've been reasonably successful, with only a couple major departments denying to participate, that we're aware of; one said that they "didn't want digital signage," and another purchased a competing product.
If we have been successful, it's because we evangelized this project successfully. A lot of this started with an already-established collaborative IT projects group whose e-mail list we cannibalized.
We tried our best to get the word out to every IT leader on campus, including the medical campus, by holding a catered vendor fair, meeting with IT leadership groups, creating e-mail lists, and pounding the pavement. I've probably given the Digital Signage dog-and-pony show at least twenty times.
Posted by dchase at June 1, 2009 05:29 PM