First-ever AV Week
InfoComm members show pride during AV Week!
By InfoComm International® - November 08, 2006 (exerpts)
Classroom visits, employee contests, product giveaways, proclamations, news coverage, road rallies, job fairs, student tours and presentations. These are some of the ways that InfoComm and its members showed pride and shared their talents during AV Week in October. Members reached out to their communities in ways they might not have otherwise, all to raise awareness for the AV industry. It was a powerful way for members to get students to consider AV careers, to encourage schools and businesses to embrace the technology, to distinguish ourselves from the IT industry.
And these activities will have lasting effects...
For those who are wondering what AV Week is all about, visit www.avweek.org to see what happened and mark your calendars. InfoComm intends to recognize AV Week again next year October 21-27, 2007. Many deserve recognition for playing a role:
Independent Producer
Independent producer Rick Bloom addressed 30 members of the Northern California Chapter of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) on Wednesday during AV Week. "Changing the Way the World Does Audiovisual" was extremely well received. Bloom tailored the presentation to meeting professionals at all experience levels and made sure that there was interaction. He asked the group to help him "build" AV and lighting systems. It was an opportunity for them to tell him what they know about AV and he helped fill in the rest.
He may get an encore. Attendees would have liked to have more time for the session (it was 90 packed minutes), and they wanted to better understand AV terminology. Bloom promised to get a glossary to the chapter to post on the website, referenced InfoComm's website and invited participants to join InfoComm's Rental and Staging Council. |