Digital bulletin board and message board: announcements, tickers and walls your agent keeps current

The ready-made apps are the ideas. Pick by the job the board has to do.

The live previews at the top of this page draw six of these. Apps lists every one.

An announcement has a shelf life. Each message in the Announcement app can carry the moment it leaves the rotation, so nobody has to remember to take it down. The app holds up to 20 messages, shows each for the number of seconds you set, and lets an urgent notice hold the screen for longer.

1. You

   Add the fire drill on Thursday at 10 to the bulletin board. Keep it up until the drill is over, and let it hold the screen a little longer than the others.

2. Agent

   Done. The fire drill is in the rotation with a longer hold, and it leaves the board on Thursday at 10:30.

Messages rotate in step on every screen that shows the board, so two screens in one corridor read the same message at the same moment.

The Ticker app crawls up to 50 headlines along an edge of the screen, at a slow, normal or fast speed you can fine-tune, with a short label such as Today or Live. An empty ticker leaves the screen by itself. For a bar that does more, the Footer and Header apps hold a clock, the weather, a countdown or a logo at each end, with a message in the middle that stays still, crawls or turns through up to eight pages.

Run the ticker under another page and the board keeps its main message while the headlines move.

A Social wall shows hashtag or account posts one featured post at a time, with its photo, author and network, and the next posts waiting beside it. Your agent supplies the posts it can read, and screenRIG draws them.

A Message wall is for an audience. Pre-approved messages take turns in the featured spot, with a short queue beside them and an optional QR code for posting. Posting and moderation happen somewhere else, and the wall shows the pre-approved messages your agent supplies.

• Offices. Announcements and recognition on the break-room screen, key numbers from a spreadsheet on the next page, and a room board by the meeting rooms. See corporate offices and meeting room signs.
• Schools. The day's announcements, each leaving when its event is over, beside the bell schedule and the lunch menu. See schools.
• Churches and clubs. This week's gatherings, announcements that retire themselves and a donor wall. See churches.
• Teams with numbers to share. A board of live figures, sometimes called an information radiator, is a dashboard on a TV.

You can, by telling your agent, and so can anyone you invite to the project, in the dashboard. If you would rather approve first, turn on review, and each change waits for your approval before it plays. Your agent reads the sources you point it at with its own access and posts only what you ask for.

What is a digital bulletin board?

A screen that does the job of a notice board: it shows announcements, news and recognition to the people who walk past, and it is changed from a distance. Digital message boards, electronic bulletin boards, announcement boards and information boards are the same idea under different names.

Is a digital board better than a static sign?

A paper board is cheap and fine for a notice that never changes. A screen suits messages that change often or must end on a date, and one sentence updates every screen. Keep the paper where it already works.

Can it show a Slack or Teams channel?

Your agent reads the channel with its own access and puts the posts on the Workplace posts app, which shows one post at a time with its author, channel and reactions. Tell your agent which channel and which posts it may show.

What is a jumbotron?

A jumbotron is the big video board in an arena or stadium, and the word now describes any large venue screen. screenRIG is the software, not the board: any display with a Player plays your content, and the Scores app draws a scoreboard of live, final and upcoming games on a screen of any size.

Do the messages go away on their own?

Yes. Give an announcement an end time and it leaves the rotation then. Set the ticker to show only while it has headlines, and an empty ticker leaves the screen. Your agent never has to take them down.

Which screen runs a bulletin board?

Any screen with a Player: a TV with Google TV or Android TV built in, an Amazon Signage Stick, a Raspberry Pi, a PC or any browser. Players lists them.

Start free, pair a TV in the hallway or the break room and paste your announcements to your agent. Ask for a screenshot before you walk away.