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A desktop ticker tape is a scrolling text application, usually placed towards the bottom of a computer screen, similar to the news tickers on TV channels. This customizable software displays important headlines and can hyperlink to further information, ensuring your employees stay informed.
Desktop ticker tapes, occupying less than 4% of available screen space, allow users to continue their tasks while being engaged with the scrolling headlines. Busy employees can easily scan messages sent to the news ticker app without interrupting their work.
The desktop news ticker can be used by different departments to send IT updates, company news, article follow-ups, links to documents and intranet pages.
Our ticker software is compatible with Windows and Mac operating systems and is also available as a mobile application, functioning as a push notification.
You have complete control over sending specific news headlines, with options to automate, schedule, or quickly push urgent news through the live ticker text.
Monitor delivery and read statistics to measure impact, engagement levels, and improve performance.
A news ticker app is a great way for companies to boost their internal communications and share news and information.
A ticker software is a versatile tool for companies to enhance their internal communications and share vital information across various departments.
- Deliver breaking news headlines about your company or industry.
- Share updates about your company’s performance or individual work teams.
- Signpost when there are Intranet updates
Notify employees when there are Intranet updates.
- Provide information about your IT systems’ status and any outages.
- Send cybersecurity awareness reminders.
- Send your employees information about new or updated resources, procedures or policies your organization has developed.
- Deliver important invitations or send “nudge” reminders about scheduled events.
- Deliver micro or “burst” learning opportunities to your employees.
- Deliver non-urgent emergency communications and warnings.
- Send emergency tips and reminders.
Find out who saw your messages and when they saw them.
Synchronize your Active Directory over limitless domains.
Send custom messages to specific teams or departments or even to individual users.
You can automate your messages so that they send in a recurring way across all the scrolling tickers.
The scrolling ticker keeps a history of all messages that you can use for reference.
Pre-schedule news and event information to appear on the ticker in advance, making it flexible according to your schedule.
Send ticker text to desktops, laptops, mobile phones and digital signage with only 1 click.
Use your company logo and color scheme and strengthen your corporate brand from the inside.
Change the screen position, appearance and add links to the tickers for better engagement.
Not every message will be relevant to every employee in your organization, so you can use the customizable desktop ticker software to set up specific groups of recipients based on your Active Directory. This allows you to send tailored information to individual teams, work groups, specific departments, or your entire company using the news ticker app.
There are numerous ways to make the most out of a desktop ticker to improve communication with your staff. For instance, you can set multiple headlines, add hyperlinks, and determine how users will receive or dismiss the scrolling ticker.
By using the scheduling features of the desktop ticker tape, you can plan for it to appear on specific dates, ensuring timely delivery of information. Additionally, the metrics tools available within the software help you gauge the effectiveness of your messages, allowing you to continually refine your communication strategy.
100% readership guarantee - everyone will see your messages.
Scrolling news feed minimizes work distractions.
Moving text on the screen is highly engaging.
Customizable scrolling ticker saves screen space.
Drive people to the intranet or company blog or any other under-utilized communication resources
“The central IT department of the university uses DeskAlerts. It preempts unnecessary helpdesk calls by keeping our customers informed and is quick and easy to setup, use and deploy. DeskAlerts makes it easy to tailor notifications to our requirements and represents a great value for money.”
“The scope of alert is easy to configure via Active Directory groups and organizational units. All working users have the right information at the right time via the Broadcast feature. In case of incidents and maintenance activities, we can inform our customers rapidly. This is an easy-to-use and cost-effective alerting tool.”
“I would highly recommend DeskAlerts. Easy to use interface and friendly to install. We use DeskAlerts in-house to broadcast announcements, such as software update alerts. An example would be Quicktime software removal from desktops.”
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A desktop ticker is a narrow band of text that scrolls along a screen, typically located along the bottom. It is used to deliver news and updates in real time.
The most common term used to describe the bar containing text that appears on screen during a news broadcast is a “news ticker”.
There are several other terms that can be used to describe news tickers. These include a scrolling ticker, a crawler, a crawl, a slide or a zipper.
The news ticker as we know it today was invented all the way back in 1867 by Edward Augustin Calahan, a telegrapher. It was originally designed for use in a stock exchange to display commodity and stock prices.
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