BuzzPhrase Alert: Cloud computing

I just had my first sighting of what I think will be one of those buzz phrases that will get liberally lobbed into PR and marketing material in the weeks and months to come. It was used this morning in the loopy assertion that a central download portal for public service videos was “essentially delivering [...]

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DS PR 101: You don't have a premiere digital signage network unless you show first-run movies on it

So really, no big deal. We get the idea that you mean premier. Except premier means first to occur or first in status. Neither premiere, an event that you wear a tux or gown to, or premier applies in the press release that showed up this afternoon. Premier/premiere is also a variant of one of [...]

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DS PR 101: It's a visual medium, so why are you just sending out text?

It is remarkable how much press material is sent out without visuals, in a business that blabbers on and on about content being everything. I was just reading a release about a European software company and its new DOOH client, describing in considerable detail what’s on the screen and how the screens are located in [...]

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A press release about a story???

I have pretty much resolved that this blog will not engage in calling out companies for the sport of making them look silly. Names will be withheld even though the companies have rarely earned the “protection of the innocent” pass. Just as I was about to wave bye-bye to my laptop and fix me and [...]

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10 digital signage buzzwords and phrases that need to get shelved … now!

Robin Wauters at TechCrunch did a great piece recently about words he would love to see banned from press releases. It is very Silicon Valley-focused, but much of what he had to write could be applied to this sector. I thought I would use that for inspiration for my own, DS-centric list. The hype in [...]

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