In today's business world, you see more and more kiosks, scrolling advertisement on the side of the road, or just informational uses in offices scrolling across a monitor on a wall. You may ask, " How can I do that too?", while being a small company or not wanting to pay expensive prices. The answer is Media Signage Player, a free downloadable software from http://www.mediasignage.com/. This software application is easy to use, with a nice user interface, and if you are not sure what to do, they have video tutorials on how to use media signage to help you tailor it to your specific business needs.

This software gives you the ability to create digital signage that can be displayed on a monitor or multiple monitors around your business and other locations. You create the sign on one computer (using the Media Signage Studio) and you can register other systems as a Media Signage player which will load the sign you created. The sign is set on a timeline, similar to PowerPoint, and it allows you to adjust the full length of the media sign and how long each resource is shown in that time. You can use many resources on Media Signage such as videos, pictures, live feeds, web pages, documents, and a few others.

The St. Paul Group’s Connectivity Solution Team uses Media Signage around our office for our support purposes. We can keep an eye on our customers' network status and other operational information, which allows us to be informed quickly when something happens. We accomplish this by grabbing live feeds from our support websites, and Media Signage then scrolls our feeds across the screen, which puts all of our items to monitor in one place, allowing us do work on other things on our own systems.

Media Signage offers a free version using the "Cloud", and also offers an inexpensive server option to host the content internally.

 Written by: Chris Richter