Social media feeds

Why sites want a social feed

Organisations publish regularly on social media: event photos, product launches, announcements, news from staff. Showing that content on screens keeps them fresh without preparing separate material, and introduces your accounts to visitors. Trade fair stands, campuses, hotels and shops ask for a social media wall for this reason.

How it could work with MIA

MIA already plays YouTube videos and playlists, an RSS news ticker and web pages as content. A social media feed that reads new posts from the accounts you choose, on the server side, can be built for your installation. Posts could first land in an approval list in the panel, and only the ones you approve would reach the screens. That way an unwanted comment or a tagged post is never published without control. The feed could play in a zone of a program as cards or as full-screen slides, together with schedule rules. Which platforms can be connected depends on the access terms each platform offers, and these terms can change over time.

The look of the feed could be designed to match your organisation's colours and ready designs, showing each post's image, text and date together. Long texts could be shortened to a length people can read from a screen.

What we need to know to scope it

• Which platforms and which accounts
• Only your own posts, or a hashtag as well
• Who gives approval
• The screens and layout for the feed

With this we would suggest starting with one account and one screen. Scope, timing and price are agreed for each project.