It has become apparent that where I work needs, internally, a "notification system". The issue being that we are very spread out throughout multiple buildings and the bulk of the work force regularly keeps there email closed for hours at a time.

I need to create a simple way to be able to push out a message and have it "pop up" on everyones computer(or a single computer).

My first thought was to write a windows service that calls a winform/wpf app that resides on each computer that simply pops up with the message. Not sure how viable an idea that is but this is just brain-storming.

A different route, I thought, could be an app that resides in the systray on each computer that polls a db table and using the Query Notifications could pop up a message each time a new row is added. Then simply create an insanely basic app for writing a row to that table.

So, what I am asking is if any one else has walked this path. If so, how?

• What things did you take into consideration?

• Are either of my ideas valid starting points or are "egg and my face in perfect alignment"?

• Is there a different way that is even simpler?

Thanks