News you can choose

With the brand-new Caltech Today E-Mail Alert System now up and running, finding out what’s new and noteworthy at Caltech has never been easier. Getting the campus scoop is a snap with this online system that provides all the news and information you want—and none of the stuff you don’t.

This opt-in news tracker delivers news and notices directly to the e-mail box of any Caltech community member who wants them, and it can deliver them to your campus or home account. Aside from being free and personalized, the best part is that it’s automatic. After a quick sign-up, all you have to do is make your preferences known, and the alert system does all the work for you.

The E-Mail Alert System relies on the master calendar and the news items and event notices that are posted on the Caltech Today website. Contributors located in nearly all Institute departments, divisions, and offices provide the content for that site, so the news-source pool is quite comprehensive. The e-mail alerts include only those news items that you want to know about.

Gone are the pages-long weekly updates that took forever to read. Gone too are the reminders, notifications, and invitations that seemed to have been meant for somebody else. You choose how many times a week the E-Mail Alert System brings you what you want. As long as there’s an item that you elected to know about, the system can contact you on Mondays, on Mondays and Thursdays, or on a daily basis.

The alerts that come to you can be selected using different category criteria. Choose your news by science-related subject or by Caltech Today section. Caltech-philes will want to keep abreast of what’s in the Top Stories section.

Undergraduates will find that Student Affairs issues important scholarship announcements. The Human Resources section is always filled with employee-related news and events. Want to attend more cultural events? Select the Featured Events section to find out about all the entertaining performances taking place around here. And the Caltech Streaming Theater is always playing special lectures that you may have missed.

This system draws from the Caltech master calendar for events taking place on campus. You may select from hundreds of categories identified by sponsor, option, student club, lecture series, athletic team, seminar, film series, student house, publication, division, auditorium, or department. All this is yours, free, and just a few mouse-clicks away.

The alerts can also be set up to notify you of merchandise in the Caltech Market classifieds section. Users can specify what kinds of items they are looking for, such as books, clothing, vehicles, and bicycles, and get only those ads in their e-mails.

To sign up for your free subscription to the Caltech Today E-Mail Alert System, visit http://today.caltech.edu/today/alerts and follow the simple steps to select the news you’re interested in. You may amend your selections, suspend them, or cancel at any time. If you have any questions about this service, please e-mail today@caltech.edu.

This service is brought to you by the good folks on the Caltech Today Team, based in the Public Relations Office.
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