A feed they can open any time
Every announcement stays in the event's feed, so anyone who missed an update can catch up in one place.
Announcements and push notifications
Write one update and it goes to the in-app feed for everyone, and to the lock screen of every phone that turned notifications on. A room change reaches people before they walk to the wrong room.
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Announcements
Why updates get missed
A delay, a room swap, a session starting in ten minutes. By the time the signage is changed or the email is read, people are already in the wrong place.
Nobody refreshes an event app between sessions. An update has to reach the phone, not wait for someone to open it.
Reprinting a sign takes time, and an email waits in an inbox until someone checks it. Neither is fast enough for a room change.
A message that only lives on a lock screen is gone once it is swiped away. People need one place to check what has changed.
Posting the same words in the app, a push tool and the website news block triples the work, and the copies drift apart.
For attendees
Every announcement stays in the event's feed, so anyone who missed an update can catch up in one place.
Attendees who turn notifications on get important posts on their phone, even with the app closed.
Tapping a notification opens the event's announcements, where the full post is waiting.
Posts in the feed can carry formatting, links and an image — a map of the new room, or a link to the updated session.
Notifications are opt-in. Attendees turn them on or off from the Me screen, on each device they use.
iPhone only allows notifications once the app is on the Home Screen. The event's home page shows attendees how to add it, step by step.
How a post goes out
You write the update once. You decide, post by post, whether it should also buzz phones.
Add a title and a body, with formatting, links and an image. The preview beside the composer shows the post as the attendee feed will show it.
Turn on Send a notification for this post, and add a short line for the lock screen if you like. The number beside the switch is the real audience: the devices that opted in.
Post it straight away, or schedule it. Scheduled times are in the event's timezone, and a scheduled post can be edited or deleted until it goes out.
The post appears in the feed for everyone at the event. If you sent a notification, it reaches the lock screen of every device that opted in.
For the organizing team
Routine posts sit quietly in the feed. Urgent ones go to phones. The composer makes that a deliberate choice every time.
FAQ
Only those who turned notifications on. Push is opt-in, per device, by the attendee. The feed reaches everyone, so treat the notification as the fast lane and the feed as the channel. A post early on the first day asking people to turn notifications on helps.
Yes, once the attendee has added the event app to their Home Screen. iPhone does not allow notifications from a browser tab, so the event's home page shows attendees how to add it. Android phones and desktop browsers don't need this step.
No. An announcement, and its notification, goes to the whole event. To reach one group, use a session or a chat instead.
Yes. Editing changes the feed entry, and deleting removes it from the feed. A notification already delivered to a phone cannot be recalled, and stays as it was sent.
Yes. Pick a time and the post is published then. Scheduled times are in the event's timezone, not your computer's, and you can edit or delete a scheduled post until it goes out.
Yes. Copy one snippet onto your site and it shows the feed, live, in your event's theme — new posts appear without touching the snippet again. Because it is the same feed, deleting a post removes it from your site too. The embed isn't available for events that require attendees to sign in.
Not on the existing post: the feed entry and its notification go out together or not at all. Post it again with Send a notification switched on.
For organizers
One composer for the in-app feed, opt-in push notifications and the news block on your website.