So you want digital signage? But you just can’t get your message to every corner of your company because those big signs (and the licenses) cost too much! If only there was a digital signage solution that offered its content as a screen saver as well to make use of all those idling screens around your organisation….
Oh? There is one?
http://xibo.org.uk
But what if I don’t have the budget for a big screen hung on the wall? Well Xibo has you covered. At the time of writing there is a windows screen saver available that connects to your digital signage server and will display content on the screens of your PCs in place of the normal screen saver of scrolling text, spinning text, star field or photographs of cute kittens.
Why don’t I just create pictures of my content and have them displayed as a sequence of photos? That’s certainly a possibility and pretty easy to set up but you’ve got to distribute those photos out to every PC and you can only have one set of photos through the day. Xibo allows you to change the content during the day or even have different content scheduled for different days of the week or times of the year and even include “Live” content pulled from other sources such as your website’s RSS feed, the local weather or your own intranet.