To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Robin Kaler" <rkaler@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: rkaler@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Register to Receive Emergency Text Messages

Emergency Messaging is a new feature of the campus system to reach you 
with important information in the event of an emergency. The campus 
already has several ways to reach you, including mass mail, the campus 
homepage, a telephone tree, local media, recorded messages at 265-UIPD, 
weather sirens, and loudspeakers in police cars. 

Emergency Messaging will provide the campus another method through which 
to contact you during an emergency. Registering for the service takes just 
a few minutes.

Here are step-by-step instructions.
-Go to: emergency.illinois.edu (NO http://www)
-Log-in using Bluestem.
-Choose the text message box.
-Enter your cell phone number with area code and without dashes.
-Click on text message formats, then look at the pull-down menu.
-Choose the appropriate address for your cell phone provider (e.g., 
5553335555@txt.att.net).
-Insert that address after your phone number.
-If you have a second cell phone number, enter it (with the appropriate 
cell provider information) on the alternate text message line.
-If you use a non-university email provider, please also enter that 
information on the alternate email line.
-Click on save, then exit the system.

In the event of an emergency, you will receive messages at each of the 
numbers/emails you have provided to campus. When that happens, the message 
will come from emergency@uiuc.edu and the subject line should be: 
EMERGENCY! After reading the message, please share the information in it 
with those around you.

If you encounter difficulty when registering, please contact the CITES 
Help Desk at: 244-7000 or consult@uiuc.edu.

Please note that a test of the campus Emergency Notification system 
involving all faculty and staff is scheduled for December 4. Additional 
information about that test will be available later this week at 
www.uiuc.edu.

Thank you for your participation.

Sincerely,

Robin Kaler
Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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