[OPLINTECH] Digital Signage

[Kevin Jones]

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I will test the different digital signage
software that was mentioned.




On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Jessica D. Dooley <dooleyje at oplin.org>wrote:

> Neat solutions!****
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> If you have multiple displays at different sites to manage, Mvix Ceeno
> products may be worth a look. Purchase their networked digital signage box
> to serve as the “brain” of your display, and create, host, update,
> schedule, and distribute content to all your displays from the CMS web
> interface. I haven’t yet used it, but I like the sound of it!
> http://www.icatsignage.com/tour/ ****
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> Jessica D. Dooley****
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> Adams County Public Library****
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> *From:* oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org [mailto:
> oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] *On Behalf Of *Ken Butler
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:15 AM
> *To:* oplintech at lists.oplin.org
> *Subject:* Re: [OPLINTECH] Digital Signage****
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> That looks pretty sweet Eric! We may have to look into that. ****
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> We have used two different programs, one free and one that is a bit
> pricey. The free one you can find at http://xibo.org.uk/. The install
> process is a little lengthy - prepare to spend a morning on install and an
> afternoon setting everything up how you want it and learning to navigate
> through the web UI, but once it is set up, it's quite nice. One advantage
> with Xibo is that you can access the web UI from any computer on your local
> network; just type in the ip address of the computer with /xibo attached.*
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> The paid solution that we are currently using is Digital Signage
> Assistant, which can be found at
> http://www.bayscan.com/digital-signage-assistant.html. The only downside
> with this software is that they are really picky about the licensing. You
> can only have one "server" computer on which the actual signage software
> runs, and one "client" computer that controls the server and updates
> content. ****
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> Either of these will do powerpoint presentations quite nicely, and should
> even allow for embedded video. You may need to tinker a bit to get all the
> effects and animations in powerpoint to work properly. I would personally
> recommend Xibo. The time it takes to set it up is well worth the robust web
> interface, and being able to access it via any LAN computer is handy. And
> of course, it's free!****
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> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Eric Lochtefeld <elochtefeld at oplin.org>
> wrote:****
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> "I was looking at digital signage and found this site.  Is anyone using
> digital signage from digitalsignage.com?  What digital signage software
> are others using and would you recommend it?"****
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> We just recently added a digital sign. We only have one output so we just
> use the free website: Prezi.com
> You can see what we did here: http://prezi.com/l__i_angidid/digital-sign/
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> Eric Lochtefeld
> Mercer County District Library
> Library Assistant / I.T. Specialist
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