DGN Band Emails vs. Text Alerts

If you have subscribed to our Blog Emails, it is important for you to understand how these emails are generated.  Blogger uses a tool called "Feed Burner" to create emails that summarize a 24-hour "news cycle" of posts on our webpage.  Posts are pulled once in the 24 hour cycle (5 PM each day) and pushed to your inbox.  This is a function of the system, and we cannot change that. In most cases, our posts/announcements are planned in a way that this 24-hour cycle will be ample time for you to get information.

We had two announcements on Thursday/Friday of this week that were more time-sensitive. A post on Thursday evening clarifying the time of the Band Showcase, and a post on Friday afternoon about the location of the Band Showcase.  Neither was picked up by Feed Burner and emailed out to subscribers until after the information was essentially "old news."  In this case, the timing of the cycle didn't work in our favor.

This is why we strongly encourage band students, and their parents, to sign up for our Text Alerts.  Text Alerts are sent immediately (or within about 5 minutes) after we post to our Blog.  

We use Twitter as the engine to send out our the Text Alerts, but you do not have to be a Twitter user, or have a Twitter account to receive our Text Alerts.  Any person who sends/receives texts on their phone may easily subscribe.  There is no cost to participate (other than potential carrier charges for text messages as identified in your personal phone plan). 

Here are the instructions on how to sign up: 

http://dgnbands.blogspot.com/2010/08/dgn-bands-text-alert-system-sign-up.html