With the re-opening of the Abbey Building Lincoln College, Lincoln College was expanding. A solution was needed to improve internal communication between 18,500 students and staff, to promote the College services and social activities.

Like many educational establishments, Lincoln College had used traditional media to publicise important events. However traditional media is expensive to reproduce, static, and difficult to monitor. With many students travelling a long way to attend the college, it was vital to ensure important communications were visible and easily updateable.

PWG Screen Media has allowed Lincoln College to schedule bespoke media through strategically placed plasma screens. The information shown is reflective of the diverse events expected at a large educational establishment. Social events, deadlines and opportunities are all shown alongside digital television footage. Lincoln College are also able to market its own services and social events that are vital to support the college.

PWG Screen Media used a template driven package that allows the addition, removal and modification of information and rotation cycles. The templates are changeable and easily created to provide a complete yet flexible broadcast. Broadcasts can be set up independently of each other so that each screen on the premises shows the most relevant broadcast to a particular audience at a given time. This information can be refreshed from any PC with Internet access without any downtime on the screens during the updates. For example, the refectory staff are able to update prices and relevant information locally.

Should Lincoln College need to welcome a visitor, all scheduled broadcasts can be interrupted and replaced with a personalised welcome greeting.

“Implementing this technology has indeed added measurable value to Lincoln College. As you know the opening of Abbey Building was a very prestigious and important event for us. Our VIP guest was very impressed with the screens and the messages we were running on them, he even liked the picture of himself we put on”.

“It does make life easier, when on a project with a tight time deadline and the need to be price competitive a company can understand and deliver the required solution.”