For a list of notice boards used by the Wikipedia project, see Wikipedia:Project notice boards.

Well-used bulletin board on the Infinite Corridor at MIT, November 2004.

Cork, a common bulletin board material

A bulletin board (pinboard, pin board or notice board in British English) is a place where people can leave public messages, for example, to advertise things to buy or sell, announce events, or provide information. A message in its most general meaning is an object of Communication. Information as a concept has a diversity of meanings from everyday usage to technical settings Bulletin boards are often made of a material such as cork to facilitate addition and removal of messages or it can be placed on the computer so people can leave and erase messages for other people to read and see. Cork material is a Prime-subset of generic cork tissue, harvested for commercial use primarily from the Cork Oak tree Quercus

Bulletin boards are particularly prevalent at universities. A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects Many sport dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of public bulletin boards, used for everything from advertisements by extracurricular groups and local shops to official notices. Extracurricular activities are activities performed by Students that fall outside the realm of the normal Curriculum of school or university education Dormitory corridors, well-trafficked hallways, lobbies, and freestanding kiosks often have cork boards attached to facilitate the posting of notices. Dormitory typically refers in the United States to residence halls which are sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for At some universities, lampposts, bollards, trees, and walls often become imprompt postering sites in areas where official boards are sparse in number. A street light, lamppost, street lamp, light standard or lamp standard, is a raised source of Light on the edge of a Road A bollard is a short vertical post typically found where large Ships dock