East Central University leverages multiple interactive screens to share information about alumni, faculty, and students.

Duke University School of Medicine is showing appreciation to their building donors and legends along with sharing their impressive tradition through a unique interactive timeline.

West Liberty University‘s college of business uses their interactive screens to share events, a faculty directory, recognize their donors, and share information about the campus and their college.

Montour High School recently added interactive displays to their athletic expansion to highlight their championship teams and hall of fame members.

If you would like to see more interactive designs, check out our online Gallery that has 100′s of custom designs and installation photos.

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UBTech – Demystifying Digital Signage

Session Date and Time: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 – 4:20pm to 5:00pm

Attendees will learn about the trends in digital signage and how the technology has advanced through the last 10 years. We will specifically cover the necessary hardware and software components on the market today and share specific examples of how numerous universities are leveraging the technology for focused applications such as athletic hall of fames, donor recognition, finance trading labs, libraries, and more.

ACBSP – How to Build a Finance lab on a Budget

Session Date and Time: S aturday, June 22, 2013 - 2:30pm – 3:15pm

Over 250 Universities have created Mock trading rooms. In today’s economy many schools recognize the need, but struggle to fund the room. In this session we wil explore the components necessary, show you how to set a budget and raise the funds.

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Now that your images are uploaded you’ll have to acquire the permalink. To acquire the permalink select the image, right-click on the photo and select ‘Copy Image URL’.

Now you’re able to paste the URL of the image in a spreadsheet cell for use with the Directory and Item Profiler Gadgets both especially popular with Recognition Displays.

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The Finance Lab provides an interactive experience that utilizes a two-wall ticker and 2×2 interactive video wall display. With another ticker and video wall located in the business school commons area.

Continue reading or watch the video tour of the facility and interview with Dr. John Moore and Dr. Mirta Martin.

A special thanks to Dr. John Moore and Dr. Mirta Martin for taking time to tell us about the Finance Lab.

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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

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• 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.

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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.

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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 <br>
• Image <img src=”url”>
• Image+height+width <img src=”url” width=”xx” height=”xx”>
• Underline <u>Enter Text Here</u>
• Bold <b>Enter Text Here</b>
• Italic <i>Enter Text Here</i>
• Font Color <font color=”red”>Enter Text Here</font>
• Font Size <font size=”6″>This is some text!</font>
• Span of colors and <span style=”color: #115997; font-size: 20pt”><b>Enter Text Here</b></span>

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:

<u><b> Enter Text Here </b></u>

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

Here is the result:

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Virginia State University has over 100 feet of ticker installed between their Finance Lab and hallway.

Rutgers University wrapped their entire business school lobby with over 175 feet of ticker

Elizabethtown College leverages a 2×2 video wall along with a 24 pixel standard LED Ticker to show off the holdings of their Student Managed Investment Fund

Visitors to MDX Partners are welcomed with an LED ticker embedded in the reception wall showing the latest news and announcements

Cadence Bank utilizes a ticker with a 90 degree corner to stream the latest market updates.

Feel free to check out our entire gallery and search through photos and content designs to get ideas and see what others in the industry are up to.

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