Thanks to Bill Gerba of the consistently excellent WireSpring blog for pulling together a list of the 15 Digital Signage Blogs, News, Magazine and Forum Sites You Should Be Reading. (And an even bigger thank you for including The Web Outside on the list!)

Bill will be moderating the upcoming Digital Signage Expo panel in Vegas where LocaModa CEO Stephen Randall will be discussing Social Networking and User-Generated Content.

And hey, while I’m in the mode of tossing around resources, check out Part II of Stephen’s Making the Most of Mobile Marketing article in the latest DSE Expo newsletter.

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Along with all of the the inauguration Wiffiti hustle and bustle, LocaModa has also been popping up on industry sites today.

Check out Matt’s article on Hello Viking about the New Big Three:

The problem is customer behavior has changed (duh) and the triad of TV, radio and print has not (double duh).

The obvious question: Can we re-master the triad? Can we to give brands a new trilateral paradigm so that dollars can flow confidently again?

I think yes.

Want more? Part one of Stephen’s feature article, “Making the Most of Mobile Marketing,” can be found in the latest Digital Signage Expo newsletter:

During the past 10 years, consumers have evolved from having a passive relationship with traditional media to actively controlling the media around them. The expectations of this new “Connected Class” (often tagged as “Mobile Millenials” or “Digital Natives”) have been set by Google, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook and other popular online destinations. As such, marketers can no longer expect broadcast messages to have the same impact they once had: Interactivity on the Web and mobile devices is driving an impression-based media industry toward expression-based models.

A lot to chew on a Monday; but hey, it’s a holiday…

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Just a quick LocaModa shout-out for Stephen’s quote in AdAge today:

Boon for Billboards: Digital Leads Growth for Out-of-Home Ads

The article cites some staggering numbers for DOOH growth in 2009 and beyond (“finishing 2008 with an 11% increase in ad dollars”), but I’ll throw in a caveat:
Unless those digital out-of-home screens are part of a larger picture (yep, I’m going to mention the New Media Triad again), those numbers attenuate pretty darn quickly…

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Ever wonder what an engineering meeting looks like at LocaModa?
Well, a little like this (and, no, I’m not being hazed… well, not really)…

And when we’re not doing as many push-ups as we can before our face turns red and we collapse on the carpet…

We’re encouraging you to read this great blog post over at Advertise Here. Rob Gorrie discusses the transition from old media to the New Media Triad, a shift we’ve been championing for years.

To quote Rob:

“Network TV isn’t going away any time soon (ever) but it’s not that hard to understand why certain brands/products are getting antsy about continuing to use a medium that doesn’t come with the measurability of other, newer mediums, is the most expensive product on the market and is losing audience at an astounding rate without the reflection showing up in pricing at the same pace.”

In sum… as we say ’round these parts, “Undivided attention is so last year.”

Rob has a great discussion going, so I urge you to toss in your two cents. Tell him the girl with the lame push-up form sent you…

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Nokia made this video to tout mobile as the emerging fourth screen.
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Although the piece is extremely well done, here at LocaModa we prefer to think of the fourth screen in a much broader, more integrated sense than simply the “mobile screen” (as slick as they’ve become on many models). Per the Teemu Arina quote I referenced yesterday, this is much more about a convergence of screens (mobile, web, digital out-of-home) than the ascendancy of one particular facet.

All that said… still a video worth watching.

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