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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 16, 2005

The Winning Secrets: DIGI Awards’ panel to reveal ideas, tips for digital signage excellence at 2006 Digital Retailing Expo

SEATTLE, WA - Winners of the upcoming 2006 DIGI Awards, which honor outstanding performance in the digital signage industry, will participate in an educational panel discussion at the 2006 Digital Retailing Expo that features their winning installations, it was announced today.

The panel topic, “Bringing It All Together: What It Takes to Implement a Winning Digital Signage Project,” focuses on the key components of a successful digital signage installation by highlighting the winning installations of the 2006 DIGI Award honorees. The panelists will review the challenges that are encountered in developing and completing projects and how to overcome those challenges to meet the client’s goals.

The panel will be geared to digital signage resellers and integrators as well as potential digital signage end-users in all industries, said Scott Stanton, ActiveSource’s director of technology services.

The 2006 DIGI Awards are open to all digital signage installations completed in 2005. Entry information is available at www.activesource.com/digiawards. Entries must be submitted online by midnight PST, Jan. 13, 2006. The award winners will be announced March 16, 2006 at NSCA’s Systems Integration Expo® in Las Vegas.

The panel will be held from 4-5 p.m. May 17 and will be moderated by Stanton.

“Last year’s DIGI Awards’ winners generated significant interest in how they were able to complete successful installations in a variety of industries,” Stanton said. “This presentation will be of interest to anyone involved in the digital signage industry, as well as potential end-users who want to learn how to achieve outstanding installations.”

The DIGI Awards are the only industry awards that recognize the outstanding resellers, dealers and integrators of digital signage. This year’s sponsors include NEC, NEC Display Solutions, Sharp, Digital Signage Quarterly magazine, media sponsor aka.tv (www.aka.tv), and ActiveSource, the digital signage services division of ActiveLight, Inc., and host of the panel.

The 2006 DIGI Awards will honor 10 winners in four categories: Excellence in Technology (three winners), Excellence in Creativity (three winners), Excellence in Innovation (three winners), and Judges’ Choice (one winner). Each winner receives $1,000 and a trophy recognizing their achievement as well as a graphic suitable for use in promotional materials. All partners, including those involved in the software, content, fixture and hardware of the winning installations, will receive a certificate to recognize their contribution.

Judges for the 2006 DIGI Awards are: Joseph Finizio, Vice President, Member Services, POPAI, the Global Association for Marketing at-Retail; Darek Johnson, Senior Technology Editor of Signs of the Times; Ed Weil, Sourcebook Director-Content, Inc. magazine; Kurt Witzel, Sr. Manager, Retail Marketing, Anheuser-Busch, Inc.; David Keene, Executive Editor of Digital Signage Quarterly and DIGI Awards Chairman.

The Digital Retailing Expo will be held May 17-18 at the Donald E. Stevens Convention Center Chicago, O’Hare International Airport Roesemont, Ill.

About ActiveSource
ActiveSource (www.activesource.com) is the digital signage services division of ActiveLight, Inc., the leading value-added distributor of advanced displays, dynamic signage solutions, and projection equipment. ActiveSource provides consulting, project management and procurement for digital signage customers, and expands the markets of digital signage providers.

ActiveSource
Seattle, WA
Website URL: www.activesource.com


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