10 Digital Noticeboard App Uses

When you think of a noticeboard, you might think of a corkboard with paper notices pinned up. But the noticeboard has come a long way in the digital era, with digital signage now being a great way of sharing a huge range of information.

Here at ScreenCloud, we've seen lots of great uses for digital noticeboards - and we're also big on using our own digital noticeboard apps to share content between our five hub offices. So in this article we've looked at some fun ways to use our notice board app to share different forms of communications.

What are the best digital notice board apps?

There are many tools you can use to share content for digital notice boards. These allow you to create content as needed and then quickly display it on your screens.

Some of the best apps for digital notice boards are:

• Canva: One of the most popular and user-friendly design tools - also integrates easily with ScreenCloud digital signage.
• Quick Post: If you're looking for a fast and easy way to share an important message, our own Quick Post app is one of the best tools, allowing you to update content in minutes.
• Canvas: With read-to-go templates, you can launch great looking notices and communication content with our own Canvas app.
• Noticeboard 2.0: Our native noticeboard app is great for when you just need to launch a simple text display in seconds.
• Google Slides: Easy to use and adaptable, anyone can create clear and engaging notice board slides with this popular app.
• Team News: Upload milestones such as birthdays or add custom information for automated news and announcements on your digital bulletin boards.

Also, by using ScreenCloud, you can integrate many other data sources to display your notice board content. For example, connect popular tools such as Slack, MS Teams, emergency alerts and many more to easily display live information or share quick updates.

What is a digital notice board used for?

Modern digital signage turns your screens into sources of information for all kinds of uses, and makes it easy to segment those messages depending on location, schedule or audience type.

Whether you're displaying important reminders about health and safety in an industrial facility, reminding parents about events in a school foyer, sharing business updates internally in your offices, or building a buzz about a product launch in your store.

A notice board app for your screens can be used to share notices across locations or with specific audiences. For example you might want to display information for your frontline teams in your packing and distribution centres. Or, you might want to segment information specifically for all workers in one region.

ScreenCloud's Noticeboard app allows you easily create content and then share it as needed.

Here are some of our favourite uses for our digital notice board app.

1. Company announcements

Sharing important updates with your workforce can be timely and important - which means you don't want to leave it to people reading their emails (if they even have access). When you need to get the message out, using your digital notice board app is the most effective way.

Digital signage enhances your internal communications, surfacing info that might otherwise get missed.

We created the notice below using Noticeboard 2.0 in just a few minutes, which shows how easy it is to quickly make a sign and get it on your digital screen. It’s faster than printing one!

2. Office news

Adding office news updates via digital noticeboards is one of the best ways to get eyes on it. And because it's more visible you can build a buzz much quicker than if you're sharing it on your intranet or in group meetings.

Digital signage also means you can keep the message simple but add links to more information via QR codes - as you can see before. This notice board content was created using our Quick Post app.

3. Event schedules

There are many occasions when sharing a schedule might be useful, not just at live events. A resort or hotel might want to share the itinerary of their entertainment, or a university or college might feature guest speakers on a regular basis.

You can easily share these to custom schedules via your ScreenCloud dashboard by using a design tool such as Canva (which we used to make our example below) or uploading your schedule design. Just make sure it's easy to read from a distance and keep text simple.

Another great thing about using a noticeboard app for digital signage is that you can quickly and easily update information without needing to re-print anything.

4. Promotions and sales

Dynamic sale signs are a mainstay of retail. And they're easy to create with a digital noticeboard app such as our Canvas tool. Simply upload your image and add your logos, branding or other content to quickly share your deals.

5. Competitions

Competitions help give business a boost and turn customers from passive perusers into active participants. Use your digital screens to share what the competition is and how your patrons can enter, to help raise your entry numbers through the room.

Top Noticeboard 2.0 tip: To get more entries, keep your competition sign simple to allow the maximum number of viewers to know how to enter.

6. Celebrations

Digital noticeboards can be used to help celebrate every office occasion and make the person (or people) who are being celebrated feel extra special. This is a great boost for your internal communication strategy and saves yet another email ending up in your inbox.

7. Humorous posts

Humor is one of the best - and often underutilized - ways to build empathy with your audience. Signs created with humor will make customers smile and will often end up being shared on social media, leading to more traffic to your social pages and even through the door - without you having to do a thing.

8. Inspirational quotes

Need a pep talk for your workforce? Adding an inspirational quote to your digital signage bulletins can be a fun way to add some zip to your messaging.

Use our Noticeboards 2.0, Quick Post or Canvas apps to quickly and easily upload a fun quote to your bulletin board.

9. Customer insight

Digital signage noticeboards in an office or staff room can draw a great life line between your employees and the people they serve. Using your noticeboard to provide customer insight, in the form of testimonials or feedback, is a great way to ensure your employees remember exactly who they’re serving. The added bonus is that nameless customers become more memorable, helping to forge a personalized connection.

10. Quizzes

If you want to get employees, customers or visitors not just reading your screen but actively engaging with it, a digital signage quiz or brainteaser is a great way to go. It’ll  help to build conversation between customers and staff or employees from different departments.

Setting up your digital signage notice boards

All you need for your digital notice board is a TV or any other screen connected to digital signage software such as ScreenCloud. Simply mount your TV wherever you need to display announcements and connect to your ScreenCloud account and you'll be ready to launch bulletins in minutes.

You can then create fresh content easily, sharing regular updates, live data feeds and breaking news - as well as many other forms of content.

Try ScreenCloud for free for 14 days, or book a demo to check out all the features you might need.