A lot of the sites we visit on a daily basis purchased signage in a different era. A time where a screen was seen as a holding device. A display of sorts to give people ‘something to do’ while they sat in a waiting area. To cover all interests the screen would often be packed with several areas of content, a news ticker tape, a weather panel, maybe even a live news display from the BBC or Sky in a corner. The live news display often had its own ticker tape and weather info as well!
Sometimes a screen was bought with the idea that a receptionist or other member of staff would ‘update’ the information on it. Maybe welcoming a visitor or adding images of a recent event, but the software behind this ultimately got in the way of making that idea become a reality. The fall back for this was to resort to the same old process, pop someone else’s content on there just to make the screen appear as though it is doing something.
Celebrating our 2nd birthday since launching the #1 Digital signage made for education our exhibition stand looked fantastic as part of the larger Exertis Unlimited space at BETT.
Version 4 of TrilbyTV, released on 1st Feb, introduces some new features to TrilbyTV, including the much-requested ability to change colours of tweets and title screen elements.
Twitter is all about sharing and that’s why we built Tweet displaying right into TrilbyTV. We know schools and teachers love posting their daily updates on Twitter and it’s a great way of engaging with parents and the wider community.
TrilbyTV was developed after years of walking into schools to find a very lonely and unloved TV screen located in reception. That screen was either turned off or playing content that had no connection to the students. Actually it had no connection to most of the stakeholders associated with that school. Working at the coal face with education for the last 20 years we are passionate about giving voice and ownership over to the students because we know first hand just how powerful this can be.
