Digital bulletin board software for notices people read
A cork board is a graveyard of expired paper. A digital bulletin board only helps if old notices leave on their own and somebody decides what goes up.
Notices nobody reads
Three things kill a notice board: too many items, items that are out of date, and items nobody approved. All three are content problems, and all three are solved by the board removing what has expired and requiring a sign-off on what goes up.
Build a bulletin board screen right here, without an account
The screen builder below opens on an office notice board. Type your organisation name and three notices, and watch the board run its loop, with the schedule strip showing when each set of notices is on the wall.
Venue
Orientation
Layout
- Venue: restaurant, retail store, clinic, gym, office or school
- Orientation: landscape 16:9 or portrait 9:16
- Layout: full bleed, main plus sidebar, or a menu board in three columns
- Content: your business name and three short lines, prefilled for the venue you picked
The schedule strip underneath shows the same playlist placed on a weekly grid, which is exactly what the schedule view does inside the product.
What the software does
- Posts with a start date and an end date, so an expired notice removes itself
- A rotation with a duration per item, so a short notice is not stuck behind a long one
- Categories, so safety, staff, events and results have their own place on the layout
- A ticker for the one line that has to be seen on every pass
- Templates that hold your type and your colours, so a board looks like your organisation
- Approval before publish, so a board in a public area has an owner
- A record of what showed, and when, on every board
Where a digital bulletin board earns its place
- Staff rooms and break areas, where the loop is read slowly
- School corridors and campus buildings, scheduled per building
- Clinic and practice receptions, mixing notices with service information
- Office floors and lifts, where a notice competes with a phone for attention
- Community buildings, clubs and places of worship, where several groups post
- Factory and warehouse entrances, where safety messages have to be current
Setting one up
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Pair the screen
Any TV, stick or mini PC with a browser. One URL, six digits, done.
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Pick a bulletin template
Main area, sidebar and ticker, in your colours. The layout is set once for every board you run.
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Post with an expiry date
Write the notice, set when it starts and when it ends, choose the boards it goes to, and let approval do the rest.
What it costs
Billed per active screen, so four boards in a building count as four. Essential at 19 USD per screen monthly covers one site with scheduling and templates. Professional at 29 USD adds groups, roles, approval and proof of play across sites. See the pricing page.
Can several departments post to the same board
Yes. Give each an editor role, keep approval with one owner, and the board stays readable instead of filling up.
Do notices really remove themselves
Yes. An end date is part of the post, and the board stops showing it at that moment without anyone remembering.
Can we mix notices with a live page from our own system
Yes. A web page item shows an existing page on the board, refreshed in place, alongside the posts.
Replace one cork board this week
Take the busiest board in the building, put it on a screen, and give every notice an end date.