<aside> 💡 Broadcasts are a powerful feature that allows your agency to send timely safety-related notifications to lists of users who have opted in to notifications via your agency's Safe Beach Day site. Currently, the Broadcast feature will allow you to send messages via Twitter and SMS/Text, in addition to pushing an update to your Safe Beach Day site's "Beach Report".

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Sending a Broadcast

To send a broadcast, click the "New Broadcast +" button, which will open a modal that will allow you to configure your message and choose where to send it.

After clicking the "New Broadcast +" button, you should see the following user interface:

Channel Selection and the "Where to show this broadcast?" Fields:

These fields allows you to select up to three channels to send a message to users who have opted-in to receiving notifications via your agency's Safe Beach Day site. The channels available to use are: Safe Beach Day, Twitter, and Text/SMS. By default, the Safe Beach Day option will be pre-selected, but can be un-selected if you desire. Selecting and un-selecting channels will show or hide any necessary/unnecessary form fields related to the selected channels. For example, the Twitter and Text channels are unable to display the contents of the "Details" field while the Safe Beach Day channel is able to do so. If you wanted to send your message to only Text and Twitter, the "Details" field will be hidden, as those channels can not make use of the content in that field.

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