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Scott Tiner
rAVe [Publications]
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AI Has Endless Possibilities for AV – rAVe [PUBS]
In January I wrote about the emergence of ChatGPT and how it is causing waves across the country. I wrote about my belief that ChatGPT, in particular, was going to have a major effect on how we teach students. ChatGPT has allowed people to expand their thinking of what computing can actually do. Pre → Read More
It’s a New Year: Important Issues for AV in 2023 – rAVe [PUBS]
Over the past several weeks, people much smarter and more creative than I have made predictions on what 2023 will bring to the AV world. These are always fun to read and keep score of throughout the year. Rather than make predictions, I tend to think about what the important issues will be throughou → Read More
Budget, Inventory and ‘Standards’ – rAVe [PUBS]
I have made this argument for a very long time at my school and through talks and at conferences. The arguments for standardization are powerful and plentiful. The ability for staff to only need to be focused on a certain family of products is valuable when staffing resources are limited. → Read More
Did an AI Write This Blog? How ChatGPT Can Change the Game for Technology Managers – rAVe [PUBS]
Over the past several months, ChatGPT has taken the techie world by storm. We have all seen bits on social media of “I asked ChatGPT to tell me about XYZ, And here is what it said.” This is followed by the amazingly accurate and human responses they get. If you have not tried it yet, you need to go → Read More
Tis the Season for a Rocky Budget Cycle – rAVe [PUBS]
Yes, it is the holiday season, but that is not what I am referencing. In higher education, it is also budget season. The vast majority of higher education institutions have a fiscal year that runs from July 1 to June 30. November through April is when we plan and gain approval for our budgets for the upcoming years. → Read More
Working in a Hyper-Political World
Perhaps it is due to the recent mid-term elections in the United States, but it seems to me that political discussion, references and opinions have entered more and more into our professional lives. → Read More
The Ideal Learning Spaces – rAVe [PUBS]
In higher education, we spend a lot of time thinking about the technology that goes into classrooms. In my blog from last month, I wrote about what the perfect classroom would look like. I focused on technology and how technology can make our classrooms work better. Yet — everyone who works as a technology manager in higher education needs to look beyond the technology in a space. → Read More
Diversity in Hiring
I recently had a position open on my team, and decided that we were going to make recruiting a diverse talent pool a priority. As many have discussed over the years, IT tends to be a very homogenous area (high percentage of white men). → Read More
The Ideal Classroom
What does the ideal classroom look like? Often when we ask questions like this we limit ourselves to the current technology that we know exists, or we try to stay within some type of imaginary budget. → Read More
An Analysis of Crestron’s ‘Town Hall’ Sessions: Addressing the Supply Chain
This blog is not intended to judge what may or may not be past failures or miscommunications. It is intended to react to the recent town hall events the company has been putting on. I was invited to a town hall session for higher ed clients specifically, and I know Crestron has also held some for other verticals. → Read More
Will Supply Chain and Inventory Problems Change AV?
What this thread got me thinking today, however, is about how companies are surviving this time period. From all the discussions I have with my peers, it feels like manufacturers are able to provide about 25% of what we would be getting prior to March 2020. → Read More
Where Is the Innovation in AV
In technology, we often use terms like innovation and disruption. Yet, in our industry, I have been thinking lately about the lack of true innovation over the past few years. I have to think that some of this has to do with the pandemic, after all it is hard to innovate when you are simply trying to → Read More
Make a Disaster Recovery Plan
Last month I wrote about cybersecurity in schools and what steps we can take to prevent attacks from happening. I wrote in the blog that there are many things we can do to harden our security and to make our institutions less of a soft target. Yet, as I pointed out in that piece, chances are that on → Read More
Identifying Your Customer’s Needs
A recent Harvard Business Review article digs into the concept of learning what your customers actually want. By making that determination, you can innovate and deliver truly unique products to your customers. → Read More
Security Could Be Success or Failure for Schools
In December 2021, Lincoln College in rural Illinois suffered a devastating ransomware attack. The attack shut down all systems, including those for recruitment, retention and fundraising. While the college had preexisting fiscal problems due to the pandemic, this ransomware attack proved to be too m → Read More
Trade Show Season Is a Time to Support Diversity
rAVe and many other industry publications have written recently about the great work of the AVIXA Women’s Council and its partnership with Rosie Riveters. Since this has been written about in many places, I won’t rewrite everything here. There are a few points I would like to make, however. → Read More
Act Now for School Safety
I wrote an entire article for this month about security and severe consequences of not following security protocols and keeping up to date on security. The blog was about cybersecurity, and then the heartbreaking events of Robb Elementary School forced me to put that blog aside and write about a different type of security. → Read More
How to Make a Case for Getting Training and Professional Development
It’s good to be back to having conferences, trade shows and events in person again. They started out with lower attendance numbers, but seem to be bouncing back. → Read More
Professional Development Future Comes More Into Focus
Scott Tiner had the great opportunity to sit with several people who work in higher education — they talked about what the future of professional development looks like. → Read More
Will NFTs Play a Role in AV?
Over the past two months, I have written about the metaverse and cryptocurrency. The next logical topic of this new digital world is the NFT. What is an NFT, and will you as an AV professional ever have to deal with them?Let’s get started with the first question. NFT stands for non-fungible toke → Read More