Post events, deadlines and news directly onto the board itself.
Announcement cards are the targeted message cards admins place directly on the board, each with a headline, an optional call-to-action button and scheduled start and end dates. They can now be duplicated, disabled cards are clearly marked, and previews match what members actually see. Associations and careers teams use them most.
What changed about announcement cards
The cards themselves are not new. What changed is that managing them stopped being fiddly, which matters when the whole point is posting them often.
- Cards can be duplicated, so a layout that works is reused rather than rebuilt.
- Disabled cards are clearly marked, so it is obvious what members are and are not seeing.
- Editing starts from a clearer call to action rather than a hunt for the right control.
- Previews accurately reflect how the card will look on the board.
- Each card carries a headline, an optional button and scheduled start and end dates.
What it means for your community
Members get a reason to come back that is not purely a new role. A board that only ever changes when a vacancy appears is a utility people visit when they are actively looking, and a community you only hear from when you are job hunting is not much of a community.
A professional association gets the most from this. Members expect tangible career value from a subscription, and that is not only vacancies. A CPD deadline, a webinar, a regional meetup or a call for mentors sits naturally on the careers hub next to the roles, and the scheduled end date means the deadline card disappears when it stops being true rather than lingering as evidence nobody is tending the place.
An alumni network or careers team uses them differently, usually to reach a cohort at the right moment. A card pointing at an employer event, or at a filtered view of relevant roles, puts the prompt where people already are instead of relying on an email that may not be opened.
What it means for your team
Scheduling is the part that saves the most. Setting a start and an end date means a campaign can be prepared in advance and will take itself down afterwards, which is the difference between a board that looks current and one carrying a card about an event that happened in March.
Duplication compounds that. Most organisations end up with two or three card shapes that work, an event card, a deadline card, a general notice, and copying one is faster and more consistent than starting again. Combined with accurate previews, a card can be built and checked without publishing something half right to find out.
Cards also pair well with the rest of the engagement picture. A board kept full by an automated job stream supplies the roles, and cards supply the human layer around them. Whether either is landing shows up in member analytics as visits and applications over time.
A practical rhythm helps more than volume. One or two cards live at any time, each with an end date already set, keeps the board feeling tended without training members to ignore the space. Boards carrying five cards at once tend to get the same attention as boards carrying none, because members learn to scroll past the block entirely.
Where do announcement cards appear?
On your board pages, placed among the content members are already looking at rather than in a separate notices area nobody opens. That placement is deliberate, because the value of a card is that it reaches somebody who came for something else. A member arriving to check roles sees the deadline without having to go looking for it, which is exactly the moment a reminder is useful.
Getting started
Announcement cards are managed under Manage Marketplace, where you create a card, set its headline, optional button and dates, and preview it before enabling. The marketplace admin guide covers the board areas they appear in and the knowledge base answers scheduling questions. The management improvements are in the announcement cards changelog entry, and there is an earlier walkthrough in our original post introducing the cards.
If engagement between vacancies is your problem, the job board for associations page covers the membership angle. Spacewalk runs a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.