Thanks for your response - and thanks to everyone who's responded, much
appreciated.
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Simon Wheeldon wrote:
> We have an in-house CMS for virtually all web content and decided to repurpose this for digital signage.
We've been wondering about the possibility of doing that, too.
> The biggest notes of caution I'd sound would be (a) to make sure you
have enough content lined up for the screens and a clear plan for future content, and (b) to make sure the displays add value in the locations you choose for them.
The production/turnover of content is less of an issue thankfully (as
staff are available to produce it). We're pondering ways of balancing out
centrally-provided corporate content with location-specific/departmental
content, and things like keeping consistency of style, and brevity.
Best
Kriss
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> Subject: Big screens protocols
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> We're investing in a series of large screens for presenting departmental
> and centralised information and working out how to manage content.
>
> We already have a web-based internal messaging system and envisage it
> working in a similar way to this, in terms of appropriacy of messages.
>
> Has anyone developed any protocols for managing content on big screens
> that you might be prepared to share with us?
>
> Also, do you use web-based software to manage a 'fleet' of big screens
> from one place, and share edit access?
>
> Best
>
> Kriss
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