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The AV SuperFriends are AV and eLearning nerds who embrace the challenges that come with managing audiovisual systems and resources within a higher education environment. Most of us have had similar experiences and seek to find answers in an ever-changing audiovisual world. We engage the higher education audiovisual community through podcasts, videos, panel discussions, interviews, and social media to share ideas and solve problems. Our shared experiences and your own will lead to new and creative solutions. In summary, we are going to steal all your ideas and share them with everyone.
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  • AV SuperFriends: On Topic - It's functioning but not fully functional

    AV SuperFriends: On Topic - It's functioning but not fully functional
    Apr 1 2026

    Recorded March 13, 2026

    This episode of On Topic tackles "Spring cleaning" by focusing less on tidy closets and more on the grime higher ed AV teams create for themselves. The panel trades stories about delayed refreshes, inherited programming messes, legacy systems that refuse to die, rushed project deadlines, and the temporary fixes that somehow become permanent. Before you get clean, revel in the filth…

    It's a funny, brutally honest look at technical debt, bad design choices, and the institutional rot that keeps old problems hanging around far longer than they should. If your campus has mystery cables, aging systems, and one room everyone's afraid to touch, this episode will feel painfully familiar. Let's get filthy!

    Alternate show titles:

    • Budgets are optional

    • Those are sticky weird situations

    • Normally I'm shady and gross

    • I wasn't a pro, so I used two plusses

    • Good luck, I'm sorry

    • Museum of AV decisions

    • It did what it did

    • Be here when the tree falls on the house

    • I feel like the whole university is guilty of this

    • Just everybody calm down!

    • It's gonna be… not bad

    • If y'all didn't take an entire month off for Christmas…

    We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com

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    ► Website: https://www.avsuperfriends.com

    ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends

    ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends

    ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends

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    ► Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com

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    Donate to AVSF: https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support
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    42 m
  • AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - AV Network Security (There's no such thing as an island)

    AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - AV Network Security (There's no such thing as an island)
    Mar 26 2026
    Recorded March 20, 2026 In this episode, the panel tackles one of the most overdue conversations in higher ed: AV network security. The regular panel is joined by the founding members of AV Trust, Doug Schaefer, Colin Birney, and Frank Padikkala. The news segment focuses on cybersecurity education pipelines, exploring how earlier hands-on exposure and employer partnerships could help build a more prepared workforce for technical fields. The main segment discusses the newly launched AV Trust initiative and the broader challenge of securing AV systems that increasingly live on shared enterprise networks. The conversation covers everything from outdated firmware practices, rebadged hardware, and weak manufacturer documentation, to IoT risk, cloud-connected devices, and the need for AV professionals to better understand the language of IT and cybersecurity. Rather than treating security as a niche or optional concern, the panel argues that AV must mature into a more transparent, standards-driven, and collaborative part of the larger technology ecosystem. By the end, the episode lands on a clear takeaway: AV is no longer separate from the network, and security can no longer be someone else's problem. With AV Trust aiming to bridge gaps through education, standards work, and community participation, this episode is a candid, funny, and timely look at where the industry needs to go next. News article: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2026-03-18-what-happens-when-employers-co-design-the-cybersecurity-classroom Connect with our guests: Colin Birney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-birney/Doug Schaefer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-schaefer/Frank Padikkala: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankpadikkala/ AV Trust: https://www.avtrust.orghttps://www.linkedin.com/company/av-trust Educause HECVAT: https://www.educause.edu/higher-education-community-vendor-assessment-toolkit ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC): https://www.isc2.org/Certifications/CC Alternate show titles: You know what pays really well? Ransomware! Ain't no mountain high enough You can't stop me, but I'd love for you to participate A security-first mindset Security updates are tied to feature updates What's a risk profile? I have no idea what it does I'm clueless as far as security is concerned Security by obscurity The most miserable, hateful devices you can put on your network We do this really well with everyone other than IT Manufacturer X Model Y We have no idea what's on your switch The AV industry is way out over our skis I'm going to say something controversial A marketing company that will mail you a box I can probably tell if it's alive No amount of remote monitoring tells me that It can get to something, but it's not my network Security doesn't have to be a taboo topic that we all avoid We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Website: https://www.avsuperfriends.com ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends ► Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social ► Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com ► RSS: https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss Donate to AVSF: https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support
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    1 h y 24 m
  • AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - BDubs Active Learning Room

    AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - BDubs Active Learning Room
    Mar 12 2026

    Recorded March 6, 2026

    In this episode of Off the Rails, the panel opens with a conversation about AV Trust and what it means for cybersecurity, standards, and the growing expectation that AV systems have to be treated like serious networked technology, not mysterious boxes that somehow get a pass. Join us on March 20 when we'll have the whole team from AV Trust on the show to talk network security.

    From there, the crew turns to a much deeper discussion on design drawings and schematics. Where different designers start, how they think through a system, what belongs on a drawing, and how documentation shifts from rough concept to something another person can actually build, wire, label, and support.

    The back half turns into a familiar higher ed therapy session about the campus departments that try to "help" by buying their own gear, setting things up themselves, and only calling AV once the whole thing has gone sideways.

    So you get cybersecurity, design philosophy, workflow nerdery, and just enough support-tragedy storytelling to make the whole thing feel painfully relatable in the best AVSF way.

    News story: https://www.commercialintegrator.com/news/av-trust-cybersecurity-commercial-av-industry/146270

    Connect with AV Trust:
    https://avtrust.org/
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/av-trust/

    Alternate show titles:

    • This is a big deal
    • Come on, do better!
    • Almost as the mediator
    • I told y'all
    • Sports Bar Classroom
    • I fill in the guts
    • I kinda understand how this goes together
    • It's just a lot of one-offs
    • You must have gobs of network ports in your classrooms
    • Eh, I have what I need…
    • Most of my drawing drawings are in AutoCAD
    • No, I just hate people screwing sh*t up
    • I want one channel of mono
    • There are times where that is the answer
    • Welcome to my entire campus
    • They're only calling because they want to be able to continue to call
    • Your Layer 1 is solid as sh*t

    We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com

    ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀
    ► Website: https://www.avsuperfriends.com
    ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/avsuperfriends
    ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avsuperfriends
    ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@avsuperfriends
    ► Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/avsuperfriends.bsky.social
    ► Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com
    ► RSS: https://avsuperfriends.libsyn.com/rss

    Donate to AVSF: https://www.avsuperfriends.com/support
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    1 h y 10 m
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