Finding new and innovative ways to communicate with employees is
becoming increasingly necessary in the modern corporate world. One way to do
this is to use a desktop wallpaper on employee computer screens as a
communication channel to relay important information.
The company can manage and customise its employees’ desktop background
according to what they want them to view – sending key information and
significant news to the employees’ desktops.
Benefits of a desktop wallpaper include:
Desktop wallpapers are a good tool to use as part of your internal communications and marketing campaigns. Because it appears in a location that employees are going to look at every time they use their computers, you get the benefit of knowing that the information will be seen by your employees or customers.
- Reinforces the messaging that you send via other internal communication channels
- Helps reinforce your corporate brand
- Because of the nature of repetition, it helps with message recall
- Can be used in a creative, visual way to capture attention.
What can you publish on corporate desktop wallpaper?
You can publish just about anything you like on your company’s
communications wallpaper – this includes text and graphics. Good ways to make
use of corporate wallpaper include:
- Ensuring
a consistent branding across the organisation’s computers
- Publishing
hints and tips and reminders – for example, password security, helpdesk
numbers and other IT information
- Remind
people about upcoming deadlines, events or training
- Remind
people about policies and procedures
- Include
mentions of good news
- Include
interesting facts or statistics about your company
- Information
about work wellness campaigns
- Dashboards
and company or work team progress toward goals
- Breaking
news
- Product
updates
- Use
emergency communications wallpaper to supplement your other emergency
notifications
- Notices
about planned IT outages and upgrades.
Tips for making the most of desktop wallpapers
If you’re going to use desktop wallpaper as a communications tool, you should make the most of it: don’t just set it once and forget about it.
- Change your wallpaper often. Perhaps every two weeks or another set interval.
- Have your wallpaper match other corporate campaigns that are running at the time.
- Use wallpaper communication in innovative ways to build excitement, such as counting down each day to a launch or a special event.
- Send different wallpapers to different groups of staff based on their roles, priorities, geographic location etc.
How to use Digital Alerts to manage corporate communication wallpaper
Digital Alerts is an internal communications software system that features a range of tools and communication channels to enhance communication and improve corporate culture in organisations.
One of Digital Alerts channels is one that enables you to set custom wallpapers on an employee’s computer. The information you send via a desktop wallpaper cannot be missed by employees. You have complete control over their desktop backgrounds – new information can be deployed instantly and automatically appear on their backgrounds.
The program is easy to deploy and manage. The internal communications team or marketing team can easily learn and take charge of corporate communication through the desktop wallpaper. Remote employees can be easily reached with this messaging tool. It can send wallpaper image to a custom group of employees, to a specific individual, or to all of them.
Management can set a schedule when the customised background expires and when it will display new content. The desktop wallpaper can also revert back to its original display once the new display expires.
Desktop mass communication wallpaper can be sent in a wide range of image formats such as JPG, GIF, PNG or BMP image files. Even URLs can be used.
Corporate wallpapers are a great addition to your arsenal of internal communications tools to ensure that important information in your organisation is shared appropriately with your employees. If you’d like to see how Digital Alerts can help you to deliver business communication wallpapers, get in touch with our team of experts for a free
demonstration today.