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5 Mistakes Colleges Make With Their Digital Signage Solutions

When it's time for your college to install digital signage, make sure it's done right.

February 2, 2015 Jessica Kennedy Leave a Comment

Digital signage is one of the hottest forms of technology used on college campuses across the country. Colleges use their digital signage solutions to boost their sports culture, provide wayfinding on campus, teach classes, and ultimately attract prospective students. However, digital signage gets tricky and can fail if colleges make major mistakes, including not knowing what style of digital signage to use, creating boring content, investing in a solution that doesn’t fit the space they want to install it in, not being careful with the equipment, and hiring cheap labor to do the job.

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Digital Signage Deepens Security Awareness at West Virginia University

Digital Displays get messages out in seconds with the help of SMS and Email.

July 20, 2014 Chrissy Winske Leave a Comment

West Virginia University (WVU) uses digital signage for emergency notifications on campus. Their digital signage is a combination of Samsung displays and other vendors. X20 media provides the content management platform WVU uses to both manage and create its digital signage content. The displays are placed in high traffic areas like dorms, meeting spaces and dining halls and are tied to e2campus which the university uses for emergency text alerts allowing campus police to trigger the signage via SMS. Alerts are also sent to the WVU homepage as well as the campus TV network.

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Digital Signage and Mobile Wayfinding — 4 Solutions for Higher Ed Campuses

Digital signage wayfinding with mobile integration redefines turn by turn directions. Check out the video of how these work.

March 20, 2014 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Digital signage is always evolving and so is wayfinding technology. One of these developments is mobile wayfinding — where mobile integration lets visitors take digital signage with them. Smartphone or tablet, iPhone or Andriod these platforms take digital signage to the next level of communication. We profile four companies that offer mobile wayfinding for digital signage: Four Winds Interactive, 22MILES, Jibestream Interactive Media, and Here2There Software. Check out the videos of how these work.

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