How to motivate your community using notifications?
📲 Keeping in touch with your collaborators/volunteers in the field is a real mission!
To help you keep in touch you can use "Push" notifications
🔊 Push Notifications are messages that appears on your mobile phone screen when you are not using the app.
What are the benefits to using this?
⌛ Real-time communication: You can use it to remind your members of an important event, to let them know a goal has been reached, to congratulate the whole team at once, etc... Less intrusive than an SMS but with a much higher opening rate than the e-mail.
🏃Fast interaction: From the notification, your member can directly open the application.
🔆 Easy to use: You just need to write your message, no need for a layout nor signature. The message should be short and punchy
When to use it?
You can decide to send your community a message at any time! You can either go to Engage > Communication > Push OR Users & Teams > Notify my Community
Directly edit your message!
Other instances you can send a notification
📄 Documents: You can decide to notify your entire team that a new document has been added to their mobile application. Read here to learn how to upload materials/documents.
👊 About Actions:
You can send a notification to a volunteer that you add to an action. When you edit an action you can "Save and Notify" your volunteers.
No need to worry about sending a reminder, members in the action receive an automatic notification the day before the event!
You can also follow up with uncertain members. By clicking on "Notify attendees" you send a notification to every member who has not specified their attendance!
⚠️ Remember that it all depends on the recipient's mobile settings. If notifications are turned off, they won't receive them ⚠️