Yes! And it makes no sense to have the ability to send text messages (announcements) but then require people to sign in to see the message, the emergency bulletins should have the full text sent out as the actual message however parents have subscribed.

I should not have to buy another product to connect with blackbaud to send text messages for school updates. Is this going to happen?

Please do this. It makes little sense to have to perform two different actions in an emergency. We need this to be more than a passive action. It needs to also notify via email and text. And, like ParentSquare, for emergencies we should be able to disregard personal notification preferences.

Please add this service! We need this.

This would be ideal -- just add an Email checkbox and Text check box within the Display as: The email would go to the email on file and Text would go to all wireless numbers provided on the contact card for those Personas/Roles selected. Blackbaud has the ability to email and text as this can be done via News Notifications. 

It would also be good to have emergency bulletins show up even after the first visit to the site that week. At the very least I want the bulletin to display daily if I leave it up for a week.

Agreed. We just migrated from a Podium site in April.  Before then the notification would take care of both. We didn't need an emergency bulletin. So it should like we just want it put back the way it was working before we left podium.

Any update on this? It's been a year...

A text/email option would be great! something that would come under Profile > Settings > Notifications

This would be fabulous. We are really struggling with the phone/text communication to parents. Outside vendors that sync with Core are super expensive. Hope that BBK12 will implement the push to phone and text feature.

Is this something that Blackbaud is considering?  I would think it would be an easy fix considering all the other things that receive notifications.