OLL911 - Our Lady of Lourdes emergency broadcast system for cellphones

"OLL911" is the Our Lady of Lourdes emergency broadcast system for cellphones. In the event the Principal or Pastor of OLL would like to inform all guardians of a time-sensitive (that is, within 24 hours) issue, anyone signed up for OLL911 will receive a text message on his cell phone. In addition, at 11:00am on the first Friday of each month, there is a test message sent.

We estimate you will thus receive 15-25 messages per YEAR if you sign up for OLL911.

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On your cell phone, send a text message to 40404 with the content "follow OLL911" (without the quotation marks). This is the hardest part of the instructions! If you don't know how to send a text message, and can't get your pre-teen to help you, call Kieron or Jeff at the numbers below and he will talk you through it.

Twitter will respond back with: "Welcome to Twitter! Reply with SIGNUP to begin. Already on Twitter? Reply with your 'USERNAME' instead."

At that point, you need to reply to the text message you just received with your own text message: Simply the word "SIGNUP" (without the quotation marks).

You will then reply to the next message with a single word (which can be anything you like - and will be your "username").

You will then receive two messages right away letting you know that if OLL911 accepts your request, you'll start getting OLL911's tweets, and telling you are on Twitter and to send your first Tweet (you can ignore that).

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That's all you need to do! You should receive your first message from OLL911 on the next first Friday of the month.

If you have any questions about (or problems with) OLL911, please call e-mail Kieron Mitchell at kieronbm@gmail.com or call him at 317-376-8112 or e-mail Jeff Bennett at summit60@att.net or call him at 317-410-4684.