What this helps you do
Sending a Blast delivers your message to the phones and computers of everyone in the audience you pick, and by email to the members who chose email. You can send now, schedule for later, or repeat weekly. The composer supports formatting, links and images, up to three attached files (an agenda, a position description, a meeting packet), a YES / NO reply the Hub counts, and Send a test to me so you see exactly what members will receive.
When to use it
Use it for the messages that fail in a newsletter: a meeting moved to another room or another week, a renewal window closing, a nomination or submission deadline on Friday, a call for committee volunteers, a registration that is nearly full, a chapter or program update, a member opportunity that closes, a governance notice, and the office closure or event cancellation that has to reach everyone at once.
How to do it
- Open Send, or start from one of the starter templates your Hub seeds for meeting changes, deadlines, renewals, committee calls and governance notices.
- Pick an audience: one chapter, one committee, the event registrants, the members whose dues are due, or All Members.
- Type the message. Attach the agenda or the position descriptions if it helps (up to three files, 5 MB each).
- For an event, a meeting or a committee call, ask for a YES / NO reply and the Hub counts the answers.
- Read the Delivery panel: one Blasts credit per person on Blasts, one email credit per email.
- Click Send a test to me, then choose Send now, Schedule for later, or Repeat weekly for a standing reminder.
- If you are sending to All Members, confirm with your passkey or on your phone when asked.
Example
Nominations close Friday at 5 and the committee is two names short. At Tuesday lunchtime the membership coordinator sends the closing time, the position descriptions and the link to All Members, confirms with a passkey and clicks Send now. By Wednesday the read count is high enough that the follow-up only has to go to the chapters that are still quiet.
Good to know
- An immediate send is held for about a minute so you can cancel it from Sent & Scheduled; nothing is charged for a cancelled Blast.
- Delivered and read counts come from confirmed actions in the Blasts app, not from tracking pixels. A read is not a confirmation and is not a response: ask for a YES / NO reply when you need an answer you can count.
- A renewal notice is a message you write that links to your own renewal page. The Hub takes no payment and processes no dues.
- Recurring Blasts, such as a Monday chapter reminder, are managed under Sent & Scheduled: pause, resume or delete them there.
- If a Leader's Blasts require approval (Settings), their send waits under Sent & Scheduled until an administrator approves it.
- The Hub suggests the hour your Blasts are read most, based on the last 60 days.