Walk around any college campus and in less than a minute you'll most likely notice a plethora of flyers and posters. The overwhelming result can be hundreds of posters competing with each other on cluttered bulletin boards, sidewalks, and even bathroom stall doors.

A team of administrators and IT staffers at Colgate University set out to find a new communication tool to minimize the poster clutter effect and to provide students an innovative way to promote their events. The solution? A campus-wide network of six plasma display screens (50" diameter) located in the student center, library and the downtown bookstore. Each display continuously plays a queue of slides, videos, and flash movies from a central streaming media server. In the first semester of operation, over 600 slides were produced for the displays.

In this presentation, we will cover the technology (Windows Media Server 9) used to setup this network of displays and discuss the level of support involved in creating content and maintenance. In addition, we will go over other technologies and solutions that can be put in place to create a similar network on your campus. The number of possibilities is endless.