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FREE TOOLS TO ENHANCE YOUR FINANCE LAB

May 10th, 2013 by Ryan

We have partnered with TD Ameritrade, Bloomberg (BAT), and STOCKR to bring you a webinar series highlighting some free and easy tools that you can incorporate into your finance lab.

STOCKR – Making Stock Research More “Social”
By combining financial market data and news with social technology, Stockr is transforming the way individual investors, industry experts, and public companies connect and discuss what’s moving the stock market. Applied to universities, Stockr is a free platform where students, alumni, faculty and staff can connect based on a common passion for public companies and markets.
Presenters : Ryan Cahoy (Rise Display / Andrew Pevsner (STOCKR)
Register for May 20 (2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific)

*TD Ameritrade – Leveraging a Real-World Trading Platform
Get elite-level tools and analytics with thinkorswim paperMoney, the virtual trading platform from TD Ameritrade. Trade equities, options, futures, and forex in your own personal trading HQ powered by insights, education, and tools to help you nail even complex strategies and techniques. The platform is completely free to universities and allows professors to hold real-time competitions to introduce students to Wall-Street.
Presenters: Ryan Cahoy (Rise Display) / Mary Ryan (TD-Ameritrade)
Register for May 21 (2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific)

*TD Ameritrade and Rise Display are separate and unaffiliated firms, and each is not responsible for the products and services of the other. TD Ameritrade, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC/NFA.

Bloomberg BAT – Help Students Find Careers in Finance
Finding a job in finance or business is difficult, and it’s not always fair. The Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) offers an innovative and meritocratic way to help students get more interviews. For employers the Bloomberg Talent Search offers a fast and cost-effective approach to finding choice candidates year-round and globally. Best of all the test is completely free for students.
Presenters: Ryan Cahoy (Rise Display) / Jesus Diaz (Bloomberg)
Register for May 22 (2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific)

During each webinar we will start by talking about some of the recent lab stats collected during our polls with over 200 finance labs (You can view the Infographic here). Followed by a short overview of the free tool and how it can fit into your Finance Lab. And we will save plenty of time for open Q & A to allow you to ask questions.

More Information available at www.universityfinancelab.com

The Improved UniversityFinanceLab.com

May 9th, 2013 by Ryan

We have made several enhancements to the University Finance Lab website over the last few weeks to provider better resources to the business school community.

Directory – we have compiled a directory of the current labs across North America. You can view a map to see where they are located as well as a full directory listing where you can drill down and see specific details about each finance lab. (If you have an update to your directory listing please let us know)
Interviews – If you have been following along for the last few months you have noticed some of the interviews we have been highlighting. We have collated them together in one place for you to easily check out some of today’s state-of-the-art facilities.
Research – we have updated a few new case studies / white papers on the research section.
Lab Stats – we have summarized all of the stats from our polls into 1 simple “Infographic” that you can take a look at the trends in the industry.

We have also updated the Room Components section to a more focused offering of the key components you need whether renovating / expanding your current lab or building a completely new facility.

To make the process even easier for you (instead of having to reach out to each of these companies individually) you can now work with one dedicated consultant to help orchestrate everything from your room design and furniture right through to the desktop solutions for analysis and simulations. This approach allows you to leverage the expertise amassed by helping over 200 business schools, to consult you through the process to make your finance lab a success.

If you have any questions, feedback, or would like more information about any of the products described simply fill out this form and one of our Finance Lab Consultants will be in touch shortly.

Photos of Interactive MarketWalls

May 8th, 2013 by Ryan

Some great new action photos of the Interactive Marketwalls at Virginia State University and University of Southern Alabama

Recent Creative Designs

May 7th, 2013 by Ryan

Check out some of the latest designs produced by our Creative Design team.

A passive donor recognition display for Shands Health that highlights the latest donors, photos and tweets

Parish Episcopal School shared their updated design where they highlight a slide show, latest events and announcements.

A financial datawall highlights the new financial trading lab at Christopher Newport University

If you would like to check out more designs visit our online design gallery.

Advanced Digital Signage uses for Google Spreadsheets

May 6th, 2013 by Ryan

The Google Spreadsheet Gadget is a great way to integrate your Google Spreadsheet with your presentation. Once the data is entered into your Google Spreadsheet, the information on your presentation should update (according to the specified time in the Data Refresh Interval and you can set various conditions). For more information on the Spreadsheet Gadget please visit HERE.

What if you wanted to get a bit creative with your presentation and not use the Google Spreadsheet gadget for it’s normal intended use? Well I’m happy to say that ANYTHING is possible with the with the combination of Google Spreadsheet and the Google Spreadsheet gadget (well almost anything). Most of the tips that I will provide will be focused more for novice users, but with a little more research on the internet, I’m sure you’ll be able to find a lot of cool stuff.

With that said, let’s get started. Below I have provided a list of simple HTML tags:

Space
Image <img src=”url”>
Image+height+width <img src=”url” width=”xx” height=”xx”>
Underline Enter Text Here
Bold Enter Text Here
Italic Enter Text Here
Font Color Enter Text Here
Font Size This is some text!
Span of colors and Enter Text Here

It’s simple…. just wrap your element with these tags and that’s it. l For example, If I wanted to bold and underlined text I would simply type in the following, in a Google Spreadsheet cell:

Enter Text Here

Here is an example of a fully interactive presentation (user scroll enabled):

Advanced Digital Signage uses for Google Spreadsheets

Here is the result:

Advanced Digital Signage uses for Google Spreadsheets

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