As KaiNexus Champions and leaders at your organization, we know that you’re always looking for new ways to get your users excited about using KaiNexus. What are the best ways to disseminate all necessary information in an easy-to-digest format that incorporates a lot of facts and a little bit of fun? In an effort to answer that question, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite Announcement Board features that we use in our instance of KaiNexus. If you see something you love and have to implement, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager for help adding these features to your instance of KaiNexus.

A Fun Theme!

Here at KaiNexus, we do a mini “rebranding” every month and introduce a new theme related to the time of year, a specific holiday, or even a little inside joke! While we don’t expect our customers to change their Card Header colors and logo (for those of you who have the Branding Module) every month, creating a unique theme for your Announcement Board can add a little fun to your user's experience. If you’d like to learn more about our Branding Module and the importance of internal branding, we have a great blog post that will answer all of your questions!

A Joke or Quote of the Month

All work and no play makes Ofie a dull boy! Everybody loves a great joke, and a Freestyle Card is the best place to put your favorite one-liner that everyone can get a kick out of. Not feeling funny that month? Use the space to put an inspirational quote from your favorite author, a new bit of internal messaging your CEO sent out the other day, or some KaiNexus pro tips.  The possibilities are endless!

Links to Important Documentation

Freestyle Cards are a great place to add links to important documents or websites that you want your users to be able to access easily. With our recently added HTML Editor, it’s easier than ever to add links on a card. You can even add links that will take users to the cloud-based collaboration service of your choice. 

You get a Badge. You get a Badge. Everybody gets a Badge!

Badges are one of our favorite features here at KaiNexus. Everybody loves a little healthy competition, right? Tracking badges is a great way to highlight all the great work your users are doing in the system and even encourage users to vie for that top spot! Using a People Card, you can filter to track the specific badges you’d like to highlight, and even use our Stacked Cards feature to have multiple leaderboards in one space. If you don’t already have Universal Badges turned on (it’s FREE), please talk to your CSM about enabling this fun and engaging feature!

Important Dates

Birthdays, work anniversaries, company parties, holidays; there are so many dates to keep track of these days. Using a Freestyle Card, you can update your Announcement Board monthly with all of the important dates at your organization. Don’t ever miss another office birthday party again with this easy-to-use addition!

Junior Coworker of the Month

Here at KaiNexus, we have a LOT of pets. Like, a lot. As much as we’d love to bring our cats, dogs, fish, and birds into the office, that’s unfortunately not possible. We’d need a second office just to fit them all! So instead, we have a Junior Coworker of the Month card. We highlight a different employee's pet (or pets) with some photos and a brief biography every month. This is a fun and easy way to let your users introduce their furry, and sometimes fishy, friends to their coworkers!

These are just a few ways we use our Announcement Board here at KaiNexus to inform all of us about the comings and goings of our organization. While we do work hard, we like to have a little fun too. In our experience, the most successful customers are the ones who make KaiNexus a welcoming environment for their users. An Announcement Board is the perfect way to relay important information in an easily digestible and fun way to everyone at your organization who uses KaiNexus. Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager if you would like to implement any of the ideas above or have your own creative ways to make the best Board possible!