Use cases — Community and member notices

The noticeboard, minus the drawing pins

Every club and community building has a corkboard with a curled notice from two seasons ago pinned over a current one. A screen only fixes that if updating it is easier than printing — which means feeding it from what you already publish, and letting more than one person keep it current.

On the screen

What people stop to read

Notices and results

Weekend results, ladders, working-bee dates, AGM notices and the raffle winner. The things members come in specifically to check.

Hours, closures and bookings

Today’s opening hours, the court or green that is closed, and which room is booked this evening — the questions staff answer twenty times a day.

What’s on

Point it at the calendar you already keep and this week’s events appear on their own, with a countdown to the next one.

Keeping it current

It has to outlast the volunteer who set it up

Fed from what exists

A news feed from your website or newsletter and a calendar feed cover most of it, so the screen updates as a side effect of work someone is already doing.

More than one person can edit

Give the secretary and the bar manager their own access to the playlist. When the committee changes, the screen does not become nobody’s job.

Runs unattended

It starts itself after a blackout, plays from local storage when the internet is down, and tells you from the dashboard if it ever stops.

Replace the corkboard

Tell us what is pinned to it now and we will show you the same thing as a screen.