Even though I love using cool and new tech I often ask first, "can a spreadsheet do this?" Or as is often the case now, a Google Doc spreadsheet.
For example, our office TV dashboard is just Chrome with an off-the-shelf plugin that cycles through open tabs that are mostly display Google Sheets.
It has two benefits:
- It took almost no time at all to set up and 0 code
- Non-technical people can update the numbers easily
Plus Google has an API so if we wanted to add data to the sheets programmatically we could.