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

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A digital bulletin board is a screen your AI agent keeps current: announcements that leave on their own date, a ticker along the bottom, recognition, posts from your team channels and a moderated message wall. It replaces the corkboard in the hallway, the break room or the lobby.

Updated November 6, 2026.

## Live card previews

- [Announcement](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/announcement.md): Rotating messages with an icon, a headline and a line or two of body text, in sync on every screen.
- [Ticker](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/ticker.md): Headlines crawl right to left in silky bands with a live badge and a separator between each one.
- [Message Wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/message-wall.md): Moderated audience messages appear one at a time, with the next messages alongside and a QR code for posting. Display only — posting and moderation take place elsewhere.
- [Social Wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/social-wall.md): Hashtag or account posts for glass, with one featured post shown at a time — photo, author and network — and the next posts waiting beside it.
- [Workplace posts](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/workplace-posts.md): Company channels on screen: one post at a time with its picture or attachment, author, channel and source, reactions and replies, beside the latest posts, rotating on the wall clock. Slack, Teams, Viva Engage and the intranet read the same way.
- [Kudos](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/kudos.md): A recognition feed: one kudos at a time with the recipient's picture and name, the message in large type, who gave it, the company value and the points, beside the latest kudos, rotating on the wall clock.

> **You:** Turn the staff-room TV into our bulletin board. Rotate the five announcements I pasted, and take each one down on its own date. Run the headlines along the bottom, and add today's birthdays and work anniversaries as a second page.
>
> **Agent:** The staff-room TV rotates the five announcements, each one leaving at the date you gave, with the headlines crawling along the bottom edge. The second page shows today's birthdays and anniversaries and lists who is coming up this week. I checked a screenshot before telling you.

## What goes on a digital bulletin board

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

| The board needs to | App | What it shows |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Announce something | [Announcement](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/announcement.md) | Rotating messages with an icon, a headline and a line or two of body text, the same on every screen. |
| Keep headlines moving | [Ticker](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/ticker.md) | Headlines crawling right to left along an edge, with a label and an optional live dot. |
| Carry the small things | [Header](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/header.md) and [Footer](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/footer.md) | A bar along the top or bottom edge with a clock, the weather, a countdown or a quiet alert, and a message that sits still, crawls or turns through pages. |
| Show the news | [News](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/news.md) and [RSS reader](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/rss.md) | Supplied headlines as a front page, a list or one story at a time. |
| Thank people | [Kudos](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/kudos.md), [Celebrations](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/celebrations.md) and [Staff spotlight](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/spotlight.md) | Recognition feeds, today's birthdays and work anniversaries, and one person at a time. |
| Show what the team is saying | [Workplace posts](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/workplace-posts.md) | Posts from a company channel, one at a time with the latest beside it. |
| Show what the crowd is saying | [Social wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/social-wall.md) and [Message wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/message-wall.md) | Posts for a hashtag or account, or pre-approved audience messages with a QR code to post. |
| Welcome people | [Welcome board](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/welcome.md) and [Photo wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/photo-wall.md) | Today's named visitors, and a shared photo collection as a mosaic or slides. |
| Thank donors | [Donor wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/donor-wall.md) | Recognition by tier, with anonymous gifts shown as anonymous. |

The live previews at the top of this page draw six of these. [Apps](https://screenrig.ai/apps.md) lists every one.

## Announcements that leave on their own date

An announcement has a shelf life. Each message in the [Announcement](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/announcement.md) 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.

![Dark announcement screen: Reminder, Picture day is tomorrow, wear your house colours, retake forms are at the office, message 2 of 4](https://screenrig.ai/static-resources/images/screenshots/landing/venues-schools-announcements-fee75754.webp)
*An announcement on a school hallway screen, message 2 of 4. The school is demo content.*

> **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.
>
> **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.

## A ticker along the edge

The [Ticker](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/ticker.md) 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](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/footer.md) and [Header](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/header.md) 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.

## Social walls and message walls

A [Social wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/social-wall.md) 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](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/message-wall.md) 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.

## Boards for offices, schools and congregations

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

## Who can post to the board?

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.

## Bulletin board questions

### 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](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/workplace-posts.md) 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](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/scores.md) 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](https://screenrig.ai/docs/players.md) lists them.

## Put up your first bulletin board

[Start free](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start.md), 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.

## Related

- [Office Digital Signage Examples: Watch the Film](https://screenrig.ai/use-cases/corporate-offices.md): Office digital signage examples on film: the all-hands live on every floor, screens that sleep at night and a fire-drill alert for one floor.
- [Digital Signs for Schools: Bells, Alerts, Menus](https://screenrig.ai/use-cases/schools.md): Digital signs for schools: a live bell schedule, announcements that end on time, lunch menus and a drill you start and end from chat.
- [Meeting Room Digital Signage and Door Displays](https://screenrig.ai/use-cases/meeting-rooms.md): Meeting room signs that say In use or Available, until when and what is next, read from Microsoft 365, Google or any calendar.
- [TV Dashboard: Show Power BI, Tableau, Grafana](https://screenrig.ai/guides/dashboard-on-tv.md): Put a dashboard on a TV two ways: your AI agent draws the numbers big, or it plays your Power BI, Tableau, Grafana or sign-in dashboard on the screen.
- [200+ Digital Signage Apps for TV Screens](https://screenrig.ai/apps.md): 200+ ready-made apps: menus, clocks, weather, queues and KPI dashboards your agent fills with live data.

## More topics

- [Digital Menu Boards and Software for Any TV](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/menu-boards.md): Digital menu board software your AI agent runs: put your menu on any TV, switch breakfast, lunch and dinner by the clock and mark sold-out items.
- [Outdoor Digital Signage Software and DOOH](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/outdoor.md): Software for outdoor digital signs and DOOH: any Player can drive an outdoor display, and you can sell its airtime to advertisers.
- [Digital Kiosk Software and Interactive Signage](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/kiosk-software.md): Your AI agent builds a touch or QR kiosk, puts it on an Android, BrightSign, Windows or Chromebook screen and tells you what visitors tap or scan.
- [Digital Signage Templates and Content Ideas](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/templates.md): Digital signage templates are ready-made apps your AI agent fills in: menus, schedules and announcements, with ideas for lobbies, events and shops.
- [All digital signage](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage.md): Digital signage software your AI agent runs: pair a TV, stick, Raspberry Pi or PC, say what to show and the agent builds and checks it.

[Start free](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start.md). screenRIG is free.