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How to Create Dynamic Digital Signage Content

Dynamic digital signage content can keep your displays fresh and engaging. Which was likely your goal when you first installed digital signage at your organization. Keeping that content new and exciting can be a challenge. However, doing so can reap big rewards, particularly if you have employees or guests who frequently see your screens. In my role, working with customers from all types of organizations, I am frequently asked, “How do I keep my content from getting stagnant?”. The best advice for creating dynamic digital signage is to build a digital signage content strategy and then a content calendar and include four key content approaches. Creating a Content Calendar for Digital Signage Just as the best communicators do, you can create a content calendar that keeps you on track. As you’re building the calendar, consider how often you need to update the screens, how much new content you will have available how much capacity to build new content, and how often you want to upload that content. To help streamline your work, align your dynamic digital signage content with the events and announcements you are planning. Doing so allows you to repurpose and reuse images and announcements on your screens.

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Datadog Dashboards : How to Display on a TV

Easily Bring Datadog Dashboards to Digital Signage

Datadog dashboards are a powerful functionality that many users leverage to display data and track key metrics. But have you considered how to bring your Datadog dashboard to your large-format screens or digital signage? Digital signage – a network of displays, often installed throughout offices, facilities, stores and restaurants – can be a key way for you to engage your entire team in monitoring and acting upon real-time data. Create Datadog Dashboards for Digital Signage It’s easy to create Datadog dashboards for large-format screens, or TVs. Select the data you are adding to your dashboard and be mindful of how many components you are adding. If you want your dashboard to be engaging, limit the number of overall graphics – use only those that are absolutely necessary. Doing so will ensure that the charts and data will be large enough to be digested from a distance. And, after you’ve created your dashboard for a TV, connect it and test it on the larger screens to ensure readability. Once you’ve created your dashboard, make sure it is set to TV mode. This will ensure that your charts and graphs don’t get cut off when it is being displayed on screen. To

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3 key components of a Digital Signage Solution

3 Key Components of a Digital Signage Solution

Over the past two years, companies have largely invested in remote-working and collaboration technologies. These solutions are designed to ensure teams could continue working, no matter where they were. Today, as organizations are evaluating the new normal for workplaces, consideration must be given to in-office technology investments, such as a digital signage solution. Office technology, such as digital signage, room booking, visitor and employee management, conference room solutions, and more are all focused on engaging employees, regardless of how many days or when they are in an office or facility. These technologies are critical for organizations looking to build a smart workspace or engaging workplace experience. Let’s dig in on one of these technologies, digital signage, and how you can use it to your advantage. What is a Digital Signage Solution? Digital signage is a highly visual and dynamic communication tool that delivers real-time information to a variety of audiences. There are three key components to a digital signage solution: the content management system (CMS), media players, and the screens, themselves. Organizations around the world appreciate that digital signage lets them communicate timely, relevant messages easily and more beautifully than ever before. Content can be managed down to a single

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Share Real-Time Metrics with Skykit Beam Digital Signage Dashboard Connections

3 Reasons to Share Real-Time Metrics with Employees 

We all have real-time metrics and data, and we all know we have opportunities to better use it for real-time decision-making. However, it can be challenging to get the data and visualizations in front of the right employees at the right time to drive action. That’s why showcasing real-time metrics on digital signage has become a business-critical tool for organizations of all sizes. Our team at Skykit recently explored how companies approach the task of sharing data visualizations across the enterprise and found that they are increasingly sharing data dashboards to drive employee engagement. And, these organizations are able to quantify ROI on their investment in showcasing data visualizations on large format screens. However, these same organizations report that finding a dynamic digital signage solution that is secure and can integrate with their platforms can be challenging. There are three key reasons why overcoming the challenges, finding a solution (like Skykit’s Dashboard Connections), and sharing your real-time dashboards via large format screens will benefit your organization. 1. Democratize your Data Every organization has loads of data, oftentimes locked behind a username and password. That data isn’t helping anyone else besides the owner of the username and password. When you share

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Skykit Beam Digital Signage RSS Feeds for Offices

Powerful RSS Feeds for Offices: Why You Need Them

Powerful RSS Feeds for Offices RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication) can help keep the information on your digital screens fresh, relevant, and engaging for your audience. This is critical if you want employees, visitors, and other stakeholders to monitor your digital signage for important updates and content. What do RSS feeds do? An RSS feed takes the latest updates from certain websites and transforms them into an easy-to-read format. Connect the feed to Skykit Beam to easily display headlines, summaries, and update notices. Also, with the new ticker layout in Skykit Beam, you can have your RSS feed running continuously across the bottom of your screen. What RSS feeds should I use? Our customers, once they were introduced to our new RSS feature in Skykit Beam, began asking us two things: What RSS feeds should I share via digital signage? How do I create an RSS feed of my own? We offer the following ideas for RSS feeds to get you started. General news RSS feeds News sites are great resources for RSS feeds and can help employees stay connected to the outside world while they are working. The following news-related RSS feeds are easy to implement as they are

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safety content on digital signage

7 Ideas for Safety Content on Digital Signage

Companies across all industries invest in creating and promoting a safe workplace for employees. From training to building a safety culture, time and money is invested to ensure that all employees understand how to stay safe and healthy while at work. Keep reading to learn seven ideas for safety content on digital signage. For many employees, their first interaction with safety information is when they are first hired and onboarded. Some organizations have a safety calendar – sharing information at key moments throughout the year. Others require annual training or refresher courses. Still others share safety information and reminders on a nearly daily basis. Is there ever such a thing as too much safety information? No. But, how do you keep your employees engaged in the information they may have seen multiple times throughout the course of a day, month or year? Digital Signage Offers a Medium for Dynamic Content Digital signage can bring new life to your safety messaging. You may very well have screens throughout your offices and facilities. And, perhaps you are already sharing safety messages via these screens to keep employees up-to-date. But, have you considered how often you are changing those messages, updating the visuals,

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Skykit Beam Updates June 2022

Skykit Beam Digital Signage Updates – June 2022

You know what we say – The Sky’s the Limit! That’s why we’re continuing to roll out new content types and features within Skykit Beam to help you make the most of your displays. Check out all the exciting new updates coming your way this month. New Content Types We are adding two new content types to Skykit Beam soon: Ticker Feeds and RSS Feeds. Note, that these content types are only supported by our Android media players and are available to Pro & Enterprise customers. If you need to speak with a rep about your media players or upgrading your licenses to access our new content types, please contact us at hello@skykit.com. Ticker Feeds There’s a reason television networks use tickers – they allow important content to be displayed without taking up the entire screen. Now, you can use that same functionality with Beam. Showcase company news, events, or custom messaging as a scrolling ticker across the bottom of your screen. Try using custom messaging or simply take advantage of existing RSS feeds, such as Yahoo News or CNN. Whether your screens are portrait or landscape orientation, you can leverage the ticker layout provided in Beam. Ready to create

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