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Announcements
Need to post announcements to your organization participants like location changes, cancellation notices, deadline notices, etc? The Announcements section on your StadiumRoar site is the perfect place to take care of tasks like these.
Posting an Announcement
To post an announcement, click the Update button underneath the Announcements box on your Home screen. You'll then be taken to an expanded Announcements page. At the bottom of this page is a green Add icon, which when clicked will let you post an announcement.
Text, Files and Comments
Every time you post an announcement, you have the option to add a file (Word, Excel, PDF, JPEG, etc). A link to open the file will be posted directly next to the announcement; website visitors can download the file by clicking the link. Please, note you can also post any sort of file in your Forms section as well.
In addition, for each announcement posted, a comments thread is generated. A "comments" icon will appear next to each announcement; if selected, visitors can go to the announcement's comments page, and view and post comments. If you do not want to give people the option to post comments, you can completely disable commenting by checking off the Disable Comments option at the bottom of the Announcements page.
Home Page vs. Announcements Page
On the Home page of your website, the text from your most recent announcement will be posted. To view all announcements, in addition to files and comments, you need to click the "View all announcements, files and comments" link on the Home page.
Email Alerts
People that visit your site have the option to sign up for email alerts. If they do, they'll be sent an email every time a new announcement is posted on your site. This feature is very useful for people who want to be alerted of organization updates in real time. Since most people have email enabled on their smart phones, the alerts feature is a great way to have updates sent directly to people's phones.
When an announcement is posted, people will be sent an email with the following information:
- The "From" field contains the name of the admin that posted the announcement
- The "Subject" field contains the name of the organization and "New Announcement"
- The body of the email contains the title and text content inside the announcement
- If a file was included, it will be added as an attachment to the email
- The bottom of the email contains a link to your organization website
To sign up for email alerts, people need to visit your site in the public view; they'll see an option to sign up for email alerts by the Announcements section.
To view a list of people subscribed to your site's email list, click the Email Alerts link in your Announcements section on the Home page. You'll see a chart of all subscribers. If a subscriber wants to stop receiving email alerts, you can delete them at any time by clicking the Remove icon next to their listing on the chart.