Alert Center
The Alerts Center provides an efficient and noticeable way to get important news out to your community, whether it be local inconveniences like street closures and road conditions, or critical, up-to-the-minute emergencies like flood warnings and Amber Alerts. With the click of a button, graphics and information can be activated on your website from a variety of layouts that best fit the alert’s importance, with public notifications sent out through email, text message, and social networking avenues.
When a user clicks on an alert that is displayed on the site, they will be taken to the module information that details the alert, as well as provides photos, links to other resources, and a history of updates.
| Benefits |
| + CivicPlus staff updates your emergency alerts when you're unable to, free of charge |
| + You can push alerts via email and text message to your residents. |
| + Consistently maintain communication with your residents during an emergency |
| + Reduce public confusion with prominent positioning of the alert on your site |
| Features |
| + Emergency alert news flash for both email and text messaging |
| + Flashing graphic appears during an active emergency |
| + Four layout options for website alert |
| + Area to post updates |
| + Easily post alert to all pages or homepage only |
| + Includes seven ways to notify your community: emergency image display, text story, email alert, SMS text messaging, RSS feed and automatic Twitter and Facebook posts. |
| Examples of How This Module Can Be Used |
| + Immediate announcements, warnings of natural disasters, Amber alerts, etc. |
| Potential Enhancements |
| + Reliability issues with sending emails/texts on time: Although no one can guarantee immediate delivery of emails and texts, this is just one of seven ways to notify the public included in the module. |
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