The AV Life

In this week's episode we welcome Aaron Peterson, David Pequeno, and Lex Peters to our craziness as we share all the things we love about AV. We also honor Lex as our first AV Rock Star! Lex shares about her drive, goal setting, and all the things she has her hands in that truely show how much of a Rock Star she is! We also talk about Infocomm and its move to October and the future of how we greet...

On this week's episode we welcome Joe Way, Mike Pederson, Greg Koerner, and Will DeWitt who are all members of HETMA - the Higher Education Technology Managers Alliance (at least I got it right here in the write up). We discuss HETMA and their upcoming conference, February 9-11, 2021 (register at hetma.org), Joe Way attempts several times to take over the Podcast, we have our PM Minute, and travel...

This week we welcome Mark Okern, Harry Meade, and Frank Padikkala. Make sure you make sure you are in a comfortable spot for this long and energetic discussion regarding Network Security. We talk about all aspects of it, not just the ones that relate to AV. We have a great edition of the PM Minute with Murphy and we drop our masks in the Firing Range!

In this short episode the crew and your host, Tim, welcome the latest Crew Member to join our ranks: Nancy Blanchard! We let Nancy introduce herself before giving our listeners a small glimpse into the next few months of The AV Life. What you don't hear from this episode was our crew brainstorming some INCREDIBLE episode ideas that will be released over the next few months! Don't miss a minute of...

Happy 2021! The Crew and I are back to our usual antics where we introduce an upcoming new segment "The AV Spotlight" where we will shine the spotlight on those AV Professionals who are doing awesome things that we might not all be aware of. We talk about the upcoming HETMA Conference, have a great conversation with the PM Minute, and talk about planning for Summer and the unknowns with our curren...

In this quick episode your host, Tim, gives his reflections over the last 10 years of being in Higher Ed AV as well as 2020 for The AV Life. He also gives us a little sight into the future of The AV life in 2021.

HO HO HO!! Happy Holidays everyone! On this episode we welcome back some of our guests from 2020 as we reminisce about this roller coaster of a year we have gone through. First, we talk about the efforts being put forth to help our fearless leader Joe Way as he gathers his life back together after a devasting house fire. Check our Twitter account @TheAVLifePod or #AVintheAM for more details in how...

The AV Life - Bold Predictions for 2021: Me and the crew (at almost full strength) welcome Harry Meade, Jimmie Singleton, and Joe Way (sort of as a guest, he says he just wanted to cause trouble). We give our bold predictions for 2021 and much, much more. Things get exciting as opinions flare up and sides are drawn. We have our PM Minute where we call our shots and a fully armed Firing Range. List...

This week on The AV Life! We are short-crewed again (I think it's all the extra Turkey that we couldn't share with our big tables) and on this episode we have our PM Minute with Murphy, talk about the things that we find joy in, plug James' IT in AV page on higheredav.com, and in typical The AV Life fashion we get off track and find ourselves having an incredible discussion about standards, both i...

We are a small group for this episode, but when you’re talking about Thanksgiving this year that’s the way it should be. Myself, James King, and Murphy Daley, talk about Thanksgiving, our weekly Project Manager Minute, flying cars, and self-driving cars. Enjoy all the fun and Sci-Fi goodies in this episode!

On this week's episode we get serious. As our days get shorter and we bunker down for potentially another round of lockdowns we wanted to let our AVTweeps out there know that they are not alone. We all feel overwhelmed, stressed, and a whole host of other emotions, but we as an AV Family are there for each other. We also share our de-funkifying techniques for when you are feeling down. And of cour...

This week we welcome Danielle Karr and Kordon Vaughn to the show as they discuss Control4's latest product: Chime. They join in on all the fun with our PM minute with Murphy Daley and our Firing Range where we unearth the opening the latest Egyptian Tomb. Take a listen and hear all the fun!!

This is the first episode we recorded officially being under the Higher Ed AV Media Group. It’s just me and the crew this week. We talk about Higher Ed, K-12, and technology in education. We also discuss HigherEdAV.com, HETMA.org, and our roll in the AV world, including our AV adjacent friends. Our PM minute with Murphy where we talk about when you need to throw someone off a site and being the ba...

Strap yourselves in AV Folks!!! This marathon of an episode brings Harry Meade, Kaleo Lee, and Nancy Blanchard as guests to our show. Michelle Loret also joins as my co-host... which I was not aware of when I invited her on 😊 In this episode we have a whole lot of fun and talk about food, alcohol, travel, throwing Kaleo in the Bellagio Fountain, Disney, and much, much more!

We have talked about AV Gurus and now we are continuing our conversation with Dan Goldstein, Lex Peters and Jimmie Singleton. This episode we delve into Leadership. We get the perspectives of our seasoned veterans as well as our younger future leaders and where they anticipate going with their skills. We mix things up a bit this week with the Great AV Debate. Connect with me, your host, Tim Van Wo...

This week’s episode brings three strong #WomenOfAV, Gina Sansivero of Atlas-IED, Cory Schaeffer of QSC, and Michelle Loret of Kramer. We also welcome our newest crew member Murphy Daley. We discuss our mentors and #AVGurus who have guided us and how to find one if you are looking for one. We wrap things up with a wild Firing Range! Listen in for all the great conversation and good times!!

Here is part two of our incredible conversation with Chris Neto, Mark Coxon, and Lee Louie. We're "All about that Bass" and Saving Grandma! Hear our fun conversations and of course The Firing Range! *Pew pew*

This week the crew and I welcome, Chris Neto, Mark Coxon and Lee Louie for part one of a two-part conversation. We kick things off discussing the postponement of ISE and the state of the live events industry. As an industry we need to get back to in-person events but is now the right time? We continue with more fun and the Firing Range in part 2!

In this week's episode our crew welcomes James King from Stockton University in NJ, Jimmie Singleton, one of CI's 40 under 40, from USC and in a "guest-ish" role Joe Way. We whole-heartedly welcome back in his first The AV Life appearance in over a year the one and only Corey Moss!! We also wish a very Happy Birthday to the one and only Kym Frank! In this episode we discuss Life within COVID-19, f...