How to Take Care of your Acrylic Lectern

As with all fine furnishings, acrylic lecterns require attention and care to keep them looking spectacular. Improper cleaning and rough handling will adversely affect the appearance of your acrylic lectern. Please follow the recommendations below to provide the best care for your lectern.

Improper Care:

• You must be careful when you clean an acrylic lectern. Do not use cleaning products containing ammonia or alcohol on the acrylic – Windex, 409 and other glass cleaners contain ammonia meant for cleaning glass finishes – Do not use these types of cleaners. Ammonia or alcohol-based products can scratch or leave a film and can cause cracking to the acrylic surface. They are not intended for acrylic materials
• Do not use a dry cloth, a paper towel, your hands or textured material when rubbing dirt or dust off the surface. Paper towels contain wood fibers that can make hairline scratches on the exterior when used for cleaning or drying. This type of cleaning method will cause scratching and marring of the shiny, smooth acrylic surface.
• Do not rub or wipe the surface of the acrylic in a harsh or abrasive manner with any method of cleaning.

Proper Care and Cleaning:

• Use a soft, wet sponge and lightly wipe away loose dirt or dust.
• For more stubborn stains or fingerprints, remove them using a mild dish detergent and warm water on a soft, wet sponge.
• For more stubborn stains or fingerprints, remove them using a mild dish detergent and warm water on a soft, wet sponge.
• Dry the acrylic with a clean, damp chamois or a soft, lint-free cloth. A cloth diaper or Micro Fiber Cloth works well.
• For a professional cleaning, use an anti-static acrylic cleaner or plastic polish ( Brillianize® ) that cleans without scratching. These can be purchased at a local hardware or home improvement stores and makes the acrylic surfaces sparkle, resistant to fingerprints and repels dust and lint. As always, use a soft, lint-free cloth when applying and drying. ,
  Do not use paper towels!

Below is a demonstration video from Tubro showing how to use Brillianize to clean an acrylic display cube.

Scratches:

• Proper use will avoid any activity or product that might cause the acrylic to become scratched.
• Do not drop or drag lecterns or use metal objects (such as keys), sharp objects (such as letter openers), or rub it with harsh, textured cleaning cloths.
• If fine scratches do occur on the lectern itself and you prefer to attempt to treat them, the scratches may be removable by using specialized, mild polishes designed for this purpose.
• Scratch Removal: Remove hairline scratches with the Novus® Plastic Polishing System or for heavier scratches that you can feel with your fingernail may require using a Novus Buffing Kit.

Protective Covers:

This cover is constructed using a 1000 Denier Cordura nylon fabric exterior that is coated for water repellency, interior is made with an impact resistant ¼” foam padding bonded to soft tricot lining.

It is lightweight and durable, complete with a bottom flap for the Acrylic Lecterns. Cover provides exceptional resistance to abrasion, punctures, and tears. Easy to care for and can be cleaned easily with soap and water.

S1976 - Standard Lectern Protective Cover - Royal Blue
Dimensions: 48" H x 27.5" W x 16.5" D

S1974 - Large Lectern Protective Cover - Royal Blue
Dimensions: 48" H x 32" W x 22" D


For more information on AmpliVox acrylic lecterns and protective covers for lecterns, please visit:
http://www.ampli.com/acrylic-podium/

Free Shipping On Selected Items to the Contiguous United States

AmpliVox is now offering FREE ground shipping on selected items to the contiguous United States, referring to the 48 adjoining U.S. states.

Our free ground shipping promotion on our popular items is currently available and will be in force until the end of this year, expiring January 1st 2014.

Take advantage and save with FAST and FREE shipping on any of our products listed below:

S207 BeltBlaster Pro

Rechargeable battery powered mini PA you wear like a belt. 44-inch adjustable belt with storage case to protect unit.

SW212 Mity-Vox Rechargeable Wireless PA

Rechargeable batter powered PA system - up to 8 hours of run time. Wireless handheld, headset and lapel mics included.

Audio Portable Buddy - 222 / 223 series

Take your PA System with you, goes anywhere you go. Durable rugged plastic carrying case. Easy to use, just Plug in and speak.

SW300 Mity-Lite Portable PA

A lightweight PA with carrying strap and wireless mic, with a 35-watt amp covering spaces up to 1500 square feet

EZ Speak Folding Lectern - 272 series

Lightweight tabletop podium great for saving storage space and perfect for moving from room to room with attached handle.

S602 Mity-Meg 25-Watt Megaphone

Light and powerful weighing only 2 lbs yet packing a punch. This weather resistant megaphone has a range of up to one mile.

Customize Megaphone With Your Company Logo

AmpliVox now offers a Custom Megaphone Logo Program, customizing the S602 megaphone with your company logo. Our custom logo solutions allows your brand to stand out at your next event, setting your organization apart while enhancing your professional presence. Promote your company identity or school team with a personalized megaphone with your business logo. Great for event organizers or to ID equipment for law enforcement and public safety agencies.

Logo Size Requirements: Two sizes are available. Logo can not be more then 5 inches in length and 3 inches in height or no more then 3 1/2 inches in diameter. Logo appears on both sides of megaphone.

Logo File: Send eps or pdf, no jpg or tif files.

Allow 2 weeks for processing order. Large orders may require additional time.

The S602 Mity-Meg 25-Watt Megaphone is lightweight and powerful with new Piezo dynamic technology. Comfortable pistol grip and 3 modes: Talk, Siren and Whistle with up to a 1 mile (1760 Yards) sound coverage.

Weatherproof high impact ABS plastic and steel construction that can take abuse, an essential addition to your emergency kit. Battery indicator light shows power status (low, med, hi) on the outer housing.

Easy to use battery cartridge, half the weight and twice the battery run time making them lighter, louder, and run longer than other megaphones on the market.

Battery indicator lights with whistle, siren and talk functions.

Adjustable Volume control below the speaking area of the meg.

Requires 8 C-cell Batteries or
S1405 Rechargeable Lithium Pack.

S1405 - Rechargeable Lithium Battery Pack Also Included

The Custom Megaphone Logo Program also includes the S1405 Rechargeable Lithium Battery Pack with integrated wall charger to power the megaphone, otherwise 8 C-cell batteries may be used as a power source.





The S1405 Rechargeable Lithium Pack coupled with the Battery Indicator lights of the megaphone guarantees you never run out of power for maximum safety and security. Battery Charger is built-into the battery Case with LED Charge Status Indicator and automatic charge protection (stops charging when batteries are full).

Using the S1405 Rechargeable Lithium Pack saves you money from purchasing C-cell batteries, can be reused hundreds of times and last for years. A fully-charged battery will provide 8 hours of typical operation (defined as speaking 35% of the time at mid volume) and 6 months of standby / idle time.

For more information, please visit the Custom Logo Megaphone Program or call us at 1-800-267-5486.

AmpliVox Selected As Exclusive Lectern Supplier for AVTEQ

AVTEQ is a leader in the AV furniture industry and the largest supplier of videoconferencing carts around. You might remember our previous partnerships with them, which have included making our Line Array Speaker System available as an accessory to their video conferencing carts.

Both companies have enjoyed teaming up to offer the best in audio and video equipment to consumers on a single front, which is why we are excited to announce a new partnership: AmpliVox Sound Systems will now be the exclusive supplier of lecterns to AVTEQ’s product line.

Multimedia Computer
Lectern

“AmpliVox is a great partner, and we are extremely pleased to add its quality lecterns to our product line,” said Aaron Rubner, vice president of AV sales at AVTEQ. “Our customers now have the option to purchase all of their furniture needs from one supplier.”

The four lecterns, available now on AVTEQ.net, come in multiples finishes and colors tailored to one’s specific needs, and are equipped with casters for complete mobility. The models include:

• Standard Lectern: Elegant and professional, ideal for formal meetings or executive boardrooms

• Multimedia Computer Lectern: Equipped with a slide-out locking keyboard shelf, a side shelf to mount a multimedia projector or laptop, and built-in locking cabinet storage space to house computer towers and other audio-visual equipment

Executive Column Lectern

• Adjustable Executive Column Lectern: With an easy-to-use pneumatic dial control, can adjust its standing height from 39” to 45”

• Executive Column Lectern: A sleek, modern, all-purpose lectern that compliments any event or setting

“AmpliVox designs all of its products to match form with function,” said AmpliVox CEO Don Roth. ”We are pleased to provide a style for every speaking need, integrating into AVTEQ’s superb product line.”

You can learn more about our latest partnership with our friends at AVTEQ by visiting rAVe Publications. To stay up to date on the latest AmpliVox news, be sure to “Like” us on Facebook and follow us on our LinkedIn company page.

Adjustable Executive Column Lectern

Standard Lectern

LaLa Spreading Cheer at the America's Cup 2013

Images by Mike Kepka via SFGate

At this year’s America’s Cup racing season, LaLa Hill-Courtney took the role of the “welcoming ambassador” and cheerleader, greeting patrons of the event and informing fans of the America’s Cup Park’s attractions at Piers 27/29.

Sitting tall and pretty atop a 6-foor chair dressed in a red America’s Cup outfit accentuated with a pair of shiny golden sneakers, LaLa volunteers her time making sure all in attendance receive a great experience and get to see the best of the park.

As Lala sits on top of her high chair that she has wittily named “LaLa Perch”, she communicates to the crowd using a S602M Mity-Meg Plus Megaphone from AmpliVox. The megaphone helps LaLa to amplify her voice as she notifies guests of the Parks other features such as the Kids Zone, visiting Food Trucks, the “Flying on Water Experience”, and occasionally sings to crowd as she welcomes them to the park.

LaLa works the megaphone all day long and tries to make eye contact with the few who pass by. She talks about the weather and the food, and reminds people to shop at the Louis Vuitton gift shop.

"What I hope it does is make our visitors realize that San Francisco is a come-back-to place," LaLa said. "I do it because I love San Francisco and I really love America's Cup and I'm so excited that it's here in San Francisco." Source

S602M - Mity-Meg Plus Megaphone

Easy to use with detachable corded mic and shoulder strap for all day use. Effective range can reach up to 1760 yards / one mile.

Infographic: National Preparedness Month

September is National Preparedness Month (NPM). It is a time to prepare yourself and those in your care for emergencies and disasters. If you’ve seen the news recently, you know that emergencies can happen unexpectedly in communities just like yours, to people like you. We’ve seen tornado outbreaks, river floods and flash floods, historic earthquakes, tsunamis, and even water main breaks and power outages in U.S. cities affecting millions of people for days at a time.

Police, fire and rescue may not always be able to reach you quickly in an emergency or disaster. The most important step you can take in helping your local responders is being able to take care of yourself and those in your care; the more people who are prepared, the quicker the community will recover.

This September, please prepare and plan in the event you must go for three days without electricity, water service, access to a supermarket, or local services for several days. Just follow these four steps:

• Stay Informed: Information is available from federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial resources. Access Ready.gov to learn what to do before, during, and after an emergency.
• Make a Plan: Discuss, agree on, and document an emergency plan with those in your care. For sample plans, see Ready.gov. Work together with neighbors, colleagues, and others to build community resilience.
• Build a Kit: Keep enough emergency supplies - water, nonperishable food, first aid, prescriptions, flashlight, and battery-powered radio on hand - for you and those in your care.
• Get Involved: There are many ways to get involved especially before a disaster occurs. The whole community can participate in programs and activities to make their families, homes and places of worship safer from risks and threats. Community leaders agree that the formula for ensuring a safer homeland consists of volunteers, a trained and informed public, and increased support of emergency response agencies during disasters.

Disaster Preparedness Month Highlights Need for Innovative MNEC Systems

Since 2003, the US government has designated September as National Preparedness Month, with the goal of encouraging individuals, businesses, and communities to be proactive in preparing for possible disasters. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers a wealth of useful planning information through the website www.ready.gov, and organizations like the Red Cross sponsor training sessions to prepare citizens for a wide range of natural and manmade disaster scenarios. This national spotlight raises the question what types of equipment are needed by businesses, schools, and communities to cope with emergencies, including Mass Notification and Emergency Communication systems (“MNEC”). AmpliVox Sound Systems commends these initiatives, and offers a variety of sound system products to meet the demands of emergency situations.

Whenever a crisis requires a large evacuation, effective communication is vital to the success of any response operation. All too often, emergency situations create obstacles to communication – power may be cut off, access routes may be blocked, isolated response teams may be operating with inaccurate information, or teams may have difficulty getting instructions to large groups of frightened civilians. The potential negative consequences for local governments, schools, businesses, sports arenas, and other public areas are obvious and overwhelming. Government agencies charged with public safety at every level must consider MNEC guidelines as a top priority if they hope to respond to disasters successfully.

In establishing disaster preparedness plans, emergency personnel in all settings should have equipment on hand to guarantee that, whatever obstacles arise, communication lines will remain available. Such equipment needs to meet a number of criteria, including:

• Portability — the communication unit must go wherever the response teams go, with a minimum of weight and space.
• Power – the unit must operate with battery back-up for long time periods without the need for outside power.
• Versatility — one-to-one communication between team leaders must be available, as well as the capacity to address larger groups of responders and civilians.
• Cost Effectiveness — the unit must be affordable enough to be available to all sizes and types of response organizations, including in-house safety teams and local public safety officials.

Radio Hailer

One innovative approach combines handheld radio networking with powerful long-range hailer sound amplification. AmpliVox Sound Systems has developed a portable system that links response leadership through MURS wireless, secure radios. During an emergency, the AmpliVox Radio Hailer provides a grab-and-go, battery operated system that brings voice coverage to an area where disaster has knocked out communication channels, and allows organizations to establish their own zone sites during a disaster scenario.

These zone sites enable Public Sector First Responders, Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), or Corporate Preparedness Teams to broadcast messages to the Radio Hailer from up to one mile away, literally expanding crowd control coverage.

In recent drills, the Radio Hailer system enabled a corporate emergency response team to effectively communicate with each other and with employee groups in large, noisy areas, including street level meet-up spots and building atriums. The clients chose to use their own two-way radios, set to a restricted digital talk group that only specified radio holders (management, fire/life safety, and others) could access. Set-up included one master two-way radio used as the transmitter, and additional two-way radios as receivers at each position. The master radio was connected via the headphone jack to the auxiliary input of the Radio Hailer amp, which received the signal and then broadcast the information from the speaker. The customer established separate talk groups at two sites: New York City and Jersey City. The Radio Hailer with attached radios was configured for both sites. In an extreme emergency, this would allow the company to link all the Radio Hailers together at both locations for an all-hands announcement.

The success of the Radio Hailer model in this corporate setting suggests a wide range of other possible applications for this important new communication tool. In addition to private customers, it is currently in use at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico and the 21st Combat Support Hospital at Fort Hood. The straightforward design could easily be used by local law enforcement and public safety officials at all levels.

AmpliVox also offers a variety of other portable, battery powered products that aid in crowd management, team communication, and coordination, including:

SW300 Mity-Lite Portable PA

A lightweight PA with carrying strap and wireless mic, with a 35-watt amp covering spaces up to 1500 square feet

SW720 iPod/iPhone/iPad Wireless PA

A powerful PA system for spaces up to 2500 square feet, with full connectivity for most Apple devices

Half-Mile Hailer

A portable outdoor loudspeaker designed for the greatest range and durability under extreme conditions

Mini-Meg and Mity-Meg

A line of portable megaphone systems that deliver power, multiple functions, and long-lasting battery life in a compact and simple package.

The bottom line: when disaster strikes, effective communication can make all the difference. Any organization charged with emergency response duties must review its disaster plans with a focus on communication, and make sure it has the equipment on hand to stay connected. Technological innovations like the Radio Hailer and other AmpliVox emergency sound products make it possible for any community, military and government installation, school, or business to have a cost-effective, reliable, and portable long-range communication system, ready to deploy at a moment’s notice.

Great Moments in Historic Speeches - George Washington

After an eight-year struggle with the British, the Continental Army (led by Commander-in-chief George Washington) finally achieved its ultimate goal in 1783 – to be an independent nation. Washington decided to resign from Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, thereby taking leave of “all the employments of public life” (Washington).

He delivered his resignation speech on December 23, 1783. The speech itself is not astounding; the astounding part is that, despite his service in the war and his inclination to retire, the public demanded that he become president in 1789. To this day, Washington remains the only president to have received 100% of the electoral votes.

The importance of this speech is not within its content, rather within its symbolism. George Washington was such a powerful figure within his culture that, even though he had already retired from public life, the public commanded him to become the president.

Certainly such a tale brings to mind the Philosopher King of Plato’s Republic. The Philosopher King does not want to rule, the public chooses him to rule. To this day, George Washington remains the only person unanimously elected to the Presidency.

Great Moments in Historic Speeches - John F. Kennedy

On January 20, 1961 John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States. The speech delivered at that ceremony is famous for the line “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

This line encouraged the American public to fight against the “common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself” expressing Kennedy’s optimistic ideals.

Kennedy’s speech is an excellent one because of its content and delivery style. The message behind this speech is one of extreme optimism, embodying fundamental American beliefs.

The delivery of the speech is very steady and solid, encouraging confidence in the authority of the speaker while maintaining enough vocal variation to hold audience interest. John F. Kennedy’s speech illustrates how simplicity can make a great impression.

Although this speech showcased Kennedy’s great skill when addressing large audiences. Americans first witnessed JFK’s public speaking style during the first televised debate between presidential candidates. The fact that candidates were now seen by voters, made facial expressions, demeanor, and even clothing choices vitally important.

Whether he spoke in person or through the media, JFK was – and still is – praised for his cool, handsome appearance, solid speaking style, and carefully crafted speeches.

Great Moments in Historic Speeches - Ronald Reagan

Known as “The Great Communicator” Ronald Reagan excelled when communicating with the American public. At the time of his now famous “Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate” speech of 1987, Cold War tensions were steadily decreasing. When President Reagan demanded the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, “tear down this wall” (i.e. the Berlin Wall) he established himself as one of America’s great speakers. This speech was instrumental in both the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union.

Although the general public considered his moniker “The Great Communicator” to be an apt name, Reagan himself did not agree. He believed he “wasn’t a great communicator, but [he] communicated great things.”

When you begin to compose a speech, concentrate on great content. Outline a few central ideas that will be the “heart” of your speech. When you figure out what your main points are, work on effective ways to communicate them. As Reagan said, “I never thought it was my style that made a difference – it was the content.”