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Plasma screens and bulletin boards
Diane Wisnewski
Posted: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:43 AM
Joined: 9/10/2007
Posts: 2


 For those of you who now use plasma screens for advertising and promotional purposes in your facilities, do you still use good old fashion bulletin boards to supplement the screens or have you eliminated them altogether? If eliminated, how do you handle student classified ads and/or general postings from the community.
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Jeff Pelletier
Posted: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:55 AM
Joined: 4/2/2007
Posts: 79


 Hi Diane- I can tell you what we plan to do in our new building - we are going to have a scanner at the Information Center that will allow our student staff to scan in posters/flyers that will then be fed into the electronic displays throughout the building. We used to stamp most posters "approved" by our business office, so that we could remove unauthorized postings throughout the building. Scanning will serve as that approval. I don't know if that will completely eliminate bulletin boards, or prevent folks from walking through and taping things up, but it will minimize both and allow us to remove postings that are not approved by our staff. With anything, I'm sure educating building guests will be the most difficult part, but it will be one of many we work on in a new facility! --Jeff See you at OU in November!
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Jeff Bates
Posted: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:35 AM
Joined: 7/27/2007
Posts: 8


 We are in the process of installing plasma screens in five locations across campus, including two in the student union, managed remotely with content manager software. Advertising on them will be open to campus constituents only, and will duplicate existing print promotions. We hope to reduce the amount of bulletin board postings through this process, but expect to continue to maintain boards, at least while we evaluate the success of the screens. We don't scan anything directly into our system. We prefer to design for the screen, upholding a long tradition here of high-quality graphic design. Are others scanning stuff in? Jeff Bates Publicity Center Coordinator Western Washington University
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Z. Paul Reynolds
Posted: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:50 AM
Joined: 3/23/2007
Posts: 37


 Jeff (and others): We're doing the same there at TAMUCC. We're installing 15 monitors across campus and are planning to use the content software that came with the Samsung monitors (MagicNet). I'd be interested in knowing what others are using for their content management. Paul
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Jeff Bates
Posted: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:58 AM
Joined: 7/27/2007
Posts: 8


 We use Four Winds Interactive's content management software.
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Daniel Maxwell
Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:16 AM
Joined: 4/4/2007
Posts: 23


 We are putting in six plasma screen TV's with our marketing and communications office to reduce the number of bulletin boards in our new campus center. We are also exploring a major investment in larger screens to promote student lead programs and services and reduce the paper. Daniel M. Maxwell Director, Campus Center IUPUI maxwelld@iupui.edu
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