As we move further into the 21st century the demand for digital signage is increasing, if not expected. Directories, bulletin boards, and even donor walls are going digital and for good reason: they’re with the times, they’re easier to update and they’re much more legible.
Traditional donor walls are quickly becoming relics of the past. You can see the aging process take its toll when walking by outdated donor walls: rows of unpolished brass nameplates where you can no longer make out the donor names. If you want to stay ahead of the times, then it’s time to go digital.
Digital donor walls have numerous advantages over traditional donor walls. There’s more to going digital than simply losing the metal polish. Let’s go over some of the benefits below.
Digital donor walls are easy to design because you can simply pick a template you like and enter in donor names. Many digital donor wall templates allow you to insert your school or organization logo as well. By using pre-made templates, you save hours of tedious design work.
One area where traditional donor walls suffer is the difficulty that comes with trying to display photographs or headshots of actual donors. You either have to organize a group photoshoot and manually insert the donors’ photos on your donor wall or stick to names only. With a digital donor wall, you can upload digital photographs or headshots of your wonderful donors right into your template. There’s no need to worry about photographs fading, getting torn, or being removed either.
What’s the most important part of installing a donor wall? Making sure people can actually read donor names! If you look at most non-digital donor walls the donor names are embossed on a small brass or metallic nameplate in a tiny, illegible font. In order to truly celebrate your donors, it’s best to put their name in big, bold, clear type so everyone knows they’ve contributed to the success of your school or organization.
Digital solves this problem. With a digital donor wall, you can adjust the font size and display contrast. You can try multiple designs and iterate until you get it just right.
This is the benefit that you don’t realize how useful it is until it’s time to make changes to your donor wall. In the past, to change or update a donor wall either requires replacing the donor wall entirely or painstakingly removing old donor names and inserting new donor names.
Really old donor walls require you to remove names and metal nameplates, which effectively means you must have an on-site donor wall artisan on staff. Other donor walls may have been custom built and require the builder to come out to make changes.
Digital solves all of these costs and problems. Simply access your digital signage account, select the template you wish to update, make the change and publish. It’s that easy and can be done in seconds. Best of all it can be done from your home office!
If you have a network of digital signage around your school or organization, you can broadcast your donor wall to multiple locations. You can either have several displays dedicated to displaying your donor wall 24/7, or you can have your donor wall rotate through other signage templates throughout the day.
Another great benefit of digital donor walls is that you can use different themed templates for different seasons, holidays or events. Whether you want to spruce up your donor wall for New Years or make it work for the day of the big game, digital has you covered!
Another benefit is that digital signage reduces workplace injuries and missed days. There’s no need for facilities or on-site technicians to physically go to the donor wall to make changes. In some cases, your donor wall may require a ladder to access it or require technicians to bend or kneel. All of these high-injury rate situations are reduced when you go digital.
To get started with Rise Vision digital signage software, you’ll need to first pick a template from our website or from this page and then sign up for a free Rise Vision trial account.
After picking a template and then creating a Rise Vision trial account, it's time to activate your display.
To share Rise Vision to digital signage you need a digital signage display or TV and a digital signage media player if it isn't built into the TV.
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Rise Vision digital signage software allows you to create quick and painless digital donor walls for your school or organization’s lobby and hallways. All donor walls can be created, edited and published from one online account which makes managing them much easier. Get started today with a free trial Rise Vision account.
