The HootBoard Blog
Ideas on community displays, wayfinding, smart cities, and the road to better visitor engagement.

Jul 31, 2019·HootBoard
It’s All About the Visitor Experience – HootBoard Goes to Destinations International
Last week the HootBoard team packed up our blue t-shirts, our stacks of flyers, our branded pens, and a boatload of candy and headed out to St. Louis to take part in the annual Destinations International conference. Each year DI brings together destination marketing organizations from around the country (and even a few international visitors!) […]

Jul 22, 2019·HootBoard
HootBoard's New Analytics Dashboard Helps You Engage Users!
As you know, our mission here at HootBoard is to build a better user experience for whatever user your organization is trying to engage – whether it’s your visitors, employees, customers, or more! Our digital kiosks and concierge system help showcase the best your organization has to offer, highlight important information for your audience, and […]

Jul 2, 2019·HootBoard
8 Ways to Use Digital Kiosks to Improve the Employee Engagement Experience
Employee engagement is crucial for any organization’s success. When employees feel engaged, they are more productive, loyal, and motivated. Digital kiosks are an innovative tool that can help boost employee engagement by providing a dynamic platform for communication, recognition, and collaboration. Here are eight ways digital kiosks can enhance the employee engagement experience in your […]

May 30, 2019·HootBoard
Behind HootBoard: An Interview with CEO Satyajeet Shahade
Behind every startup is a story (sometimes two or three!) and HootBoard is no different. Today we talk to Founder and CEO Satyajeet Shahade about his background, how he got his start, and his vision for HootBoard as a company and a team. How did you get your start? I'm originally from India and I […]

May 6, 2019·HootBoard
From Collaboration to Customers: How WatchBox Uses HootBoard
One of the best parts of working at HootBoard is the opportunity to connect with a wide variety of companies and organizations doing great work across industries and around the world. We love being inspired by passionate teams, revolutionary ideas, and amazing processes that come from companies big and small and HootBoard has allowed our […]

Apr 2, 2019·HootBoard
HootBoard Launches Curated Local Content
Part of our mission here at HootBoard is to help organizations tell their story and bring together communities while also making the most of technology to share announcements and information and to engage their customers within their own space. We’re also proud to be a part of the vibrant Philadelphia startup scene (Go Eagles!) and […]

Mar 5, 2019·HootBoard
Product Update: Applications & Collections Now on Mobile!
At HootBoard our mission is to enable organizations to showcase the best they have to offer. That includes an organization's achievements, their programming, their stories, and their impact. We do this very well using our digital concierges. But there invariably comes a time in your user’s journey* where they like your content so much that […]
Mar 4, 2019·HootBoard
HootBoard 2018: A Year in Review
Let me start out by saying 2018 was the best year for HootBoard so far! We have many stories and success to share so I will try to be a bit succinct. HootBoard's Kiosk First Strategy From our conversations with customers like you, late in 2017, we assessed that our customers had multiple ways to […]

Jan 23, 2019·HootBoard
The Digital Concierge Difference – Using Kiosks to Engage Customers IRL
As businesses, we know that our main goal always comes down to engaging our customers. Whether you’re the general manager of an apartment building looking to rent units and retain residents, the owner of a new hotel looking to fill rooms and awe guests, or an HR manager intent on connecting your employees to their […]

Apr 23, 2018·HootBoard
1000+ HootBoard information kiosk integrations, bring it on Zapier
When we released our HootBoard Information Kiosks platform to our earliest beta customers, we promised that it would be super easy to update their kiosks. This could be as easy as posting from their mobile phone much like a facebook or a twitter update. And we delivered. HootBoard is the first and the only […]
