Notes about your Camper Profile

You'll also note on my posts the David, your friendly local webmaster line at the bottom. This is whatever you write in the Signature text box just above the Upload Picture heading mentioned above. This is entirely optional, like the picture. But just in case you are wondering why my posts have that line there, that's all there is to it.

Down at the bottom of your profile page there's a Messaging and Notifications settings section. What's all that, then?

campmyrtlewood.org offers what I [so modestly] think is a very sweet feature that allows you to get automatically notified if something gets posted here that you might be interested in. You can subscribe to all posts by a given Camper or to all comments on a particular post by any Camper or visitor. You can also be notified if anyone responds to something you posted. If you leave the Default send method on Mail, you'll get an email from the site with such notifications. The alternate Web option will put a notification in the left sidebar when you are on the site, and you won't get any emails. The Default send interval lets you determine how promptly you receive such notifications.

The aforementioned subscriptions block will appear in the right sidebar in contexts where you have an opportunity to create, modify, or cancel subscriptions that will trigger such notification messages.

What I think is great about this is that if there are particular discussions happening here that you want to be in the loop on, you can stay in that loop without having to log in to the website just to see if someone's posted something (assuming you've left the Default send method on Mail). This makes the Forums much more valuable than email discussions because the entire discussion stays in one place, in the forum topic (you don't have to keep track of what might be a whole string of emails), and yet you have the timeliness of email. The email will contain the content of the post or comment, so you don't have to login just to read it, but of course you'll need to login if you want to reply.

I can also give you the option of getting your notifications via Twitter and/or SMS text if Campers express an interest in this.

In addition to using the subscriptions block in the sidebar to manage your subscriptions, you can go to the Notifications page of your profile (the My accounts pages) using the options across the top (which I should perhaps make look like the tabs that they basically are). The Notifications page gives you all kinds of control of what and who you subscribe to and how you get notified. You can get email for some things and a message on the website for others, etc.