Ideas and ready-to-use templates to help you introduce or reintroduce Onflo to your community.
Choose Your Approach
There’s more than one way to introduce your service desk to your community. The approach you choose will depend on your district’s communication style and how prominently you want the Onflo name to appear in your public-facing communications.
Option A: Brand-Forward
Put the Onflo name front and center in your messaging and visuals. You might include it on a homepage button, in a launch video, or on a dedicated webpage.
This approach works well if you want families to recognize Onflo as the place to go whenever they need to connect with your district.
Option B: Values-Based
Focus your messaging on the experience you want to provide: easy access, responsive communication, and stronger family engagement, rather than the name of the platform itself.
This approach keeps the focus on your district’s commitment to communication and can easily adapt as your tools or technology change.
New Launch
Sample Social Media Post: New Launch
Option A: Brand-Forward
Big news, [District Name] families! We’ve launched Onflo, a simple way to connect with departments across our district.
Have a question about enrollment? Need help from Transportation or Food Services? Want to give a shoutout to a teacher or staff member?
Onflo helps get your message to the right team.
[website link] #[DistrictHashtag]
Option B: Values-Based
We want to hear from you, [District Name] families!
We’ve made it easier to connect with departments across our district. Ask a question, share feedback, request information, or send a shoutout to a teacher or staff member who made a difference.
One place to start. One simple way to connect.
👉 [website link] #[DistrictHashtag]
Sample Email Announcement: New Launch
Option A: Brand-Forward
Subject: Introducing Onflo: A New Way to Connect With [District Name]
Dear [District Name] Families and Community Members,
We’re excited to introduce Onflo, a simple way to connect with departments across our district, all in one place.
Whether you have a question about enrollment, need help from Transportation, want to share feedback, or simply want to recognize a teacher or staff member, Onflo helps connect your message with the right team.
Here’s how it works:
- Visit [district website] and click “Contact Us.”
- Choose the topic that best matches your question, request, or feedback.
- Submit your message, and the appropriate team will follow up with you directly.
We’re committed to making it easy for our community to connect with us and get the information and support they need.
Thank you for being part of [District Name]!
[Superintendent Name]
Option B: Values-Based
Subject: A New Way to Connect With [District Name]
Dear [District Name] Families and Community Members,
Good communication starts with making it easy to reach the right person.
That’s why we’ve created one simple place to connect with departments across [District Name]. Whether you have a question, concern, request, feedback, or even some good news to share, you can start in the same place.
Here’s how it works:
- Visit [district website] and click “Contact Us.”
- Choose the topic that best matches what you need.
- Submit your message, and the appropriate team will follow up with you directly.
We want every member of our community to know how to reach us and know that we’re listening.
Thank you for being part of [District Name]!
[Superintendent Name]
Re-Promoting an Established Platform
If your district has been using Onflo for a while, you don’t need to treat your promotion like a brand-new launch. Instead, focus on reminding families that the service is available, useful, and an easy way to connect.
A few ways to bring it back to your community’s attention:
- Show that people are using it. If you have strong usage or response-time data, share it. Real numbers help demonstrate that this is an active communication channel, not just another link on your website.
- Try a “Did you know?” reminder. Some families may have missed the original launch, while others simply need a reminder that the service is available.
- Connect your promotion to something timely. Back-to-school season, the beginning of a semester, enrollment, or another high-communication period gives you a natural reason to remind families how to reach you.
- Share what’s new. Added a department? Expanded language access? Introduced the chatbot? Improved response times? Give families a reason to take another look.
- Use the communication channels families already know. Newsletters, back-to-school materials, school websites, and existing district social channels can be more effective than creating a separate campaign.
Sample “Did You Know?” Social Media Post
Option A: Brand-Forward
Did you know [District Name] has a direct line for questions, requests, feedback, and shoutouts?
Onflo helps connect families with the right district team, from enrollment questions to compliments for a favorite teacher.
Give it a try: [website link] #[DistrictHashtag]
Option B: Values-Based
Need to connect with [District Name]? There’s one simple place to start.
Ask a question, request information, share feedback, or send a shoutout to a teacher or staff member. We’re here, we’re listening, and we’re ready to help.
👉 [website link] #[DistrictHashtag]
Sample Refresher Email
Option A: Brand-Forward
Subject: A Quick Reminder About Onflo
Dear [District Name] Families and Community Members,
Onflo is your direct connection to departments across [District Name].
If it’s been a while since you’ve used it, or you didn’t know it was available, here’s a quick refresher:
- Visit [district website] and click “Contact Us.”
- Choose the topic that best matches what you need.
- Submit your message, and the appropriate team will follow up directly.
[Optional: Last year alone, we responded to more than [X] inquiries, with most receiving a response within [Y] hours.]
Whether you have a question, need help, want to share feedback, or have a compliment to pass along, we’d love to hear from you.
[Superintendent Name]
Option B: Values-Based
Subject: A Reminder: We’re Here to Listen
Dear [District Name] Families and Community Members,
Have a question? Need information? Want to share feedback or recognize someone doing great work?
There’s one simple place to start when you need to connect with [District Name].
- Visit [district website] and click “Contact Us.”
- Choose the topic that best matches what you need.
- Submit your message, and the appropriate team will follow up directly.
[Optional: Last year alone, we responded to more than [X] inquiries, with most receiving a response within [Y] hours.]
Making it easy to connect is an important part of keeping communication open between our schools and our community. We’re here, and we’re listening.
[Superintendent Name]
Spotlighting the Chatbot
The chatbot can also be promoted on its own. For families with a quick question, it can be one of the fastest ways to find information without searching through pages of your district website or waiting for a response.
- Answers are immediate. Families can ask a question and get information in seconds.
- It’s available 24/7. Families can get help after school hours, at night, or on weekends.
- It uses information from your district website. This makes it especially useful for common questions about things like school hours, calendars, enrollment, transportation, and other frequently requested information.
- It’s an easy place to start. Families don’t need to know which department to contact or submit a full request just to get a quick answer.
Sample Social Media Post
Option A: Brand-Forward
Have a quick question about [District Name]? Ask the Onflo chatbot!
It’s available right on our website 24/7 to help with common questions about enrollment, transportation, school hours, calendars, and more.
👉 [website link] #[DistrictHashtag]
Option B: Values-Based
Have a quick question? You may be able to get the answer right away.
Our website’s chat assistant is available 24/7 to help with common questions about enrollment, transportation, school hours, calendars, and more.
👉 [website link] #[DistrictHashtag]
Sample Email Blurb
For a newsletter or existing district email, keep it simple. A short feature spotlight is usually all you need.
Option A: Brand-Forward
Subject: Meet Your 24/7 Assistant: The Onflo Chatbot
Did you know [District Name]’s website has a built-in chatbot? Powered by Onflo, it’s available 24/7 to help answer common questions about enrollment, transportation, school hours, calendars, and more.
Look for the chat icon on [district website] and give it a try!
Option B: Values-Based
Subject: Get Answers Anytime
Have a quick question after district offices are closed? Our website’s chat assistant is available 24/7 to help answer common questions about enrollment, transportation, school hours, calendars, and more.
Look for the chat icon on [district website] and give it a try!
More Ways to Spotlight the Chatbot
- Add a simple prompt like “Have a quick question? Ask us!” on high-traffic pages such as Enrollment, Transportation, or your district calendar.
- Promote the chatbot during times when families naturally have more questions, such as back-to-school season, enrollment windows, or the start of a new semester.
- Give your chatbot a friendly name or visual identity that fits your district.
- If your chatbot supports multiple languages, make sure families know. Include that information anywhere you promote it.
More Ways to Build Momentum
You don’t need a major campaign to keep your service desk visible. Look for opportunities to include it in the communication families already receive and the places they already visit.
- Make your “Contact Us” button easy to find on your district homepage.
- Record a short welcome video from your Superintendent or another district leader showing families how and why to use the service.
- Add QR codes to flyers, posters, back-to-school materials, and other printed communications.
- Make language accessibility part of your promotion so multilingual families know how they can connect.
- Share simple impact data once you have it. For example: “Last month, we responded to more than 200 community inquiries, with most receiving a response within 48 hours.”
- Create a recurring feature such as “Ask the Superintendent” that shares anonymized community questions and answers.
Avoiding the “Complaint Box” Trap
When you give your community one place to contact the entire district, it can easily start to look like a place that’s only meant for complaints.
Your messaging can help prevent that.
- Show the full range of reasons to connect: questions, requests, information, feedback, ideas, and compliments.
- Use welcoming language like “connect,” “ask,” and “share” instead of words that make the service sound like a reporting system.
- Invite positive feedback directly. Remind families that they can use it to recognize a teacher, staff member, school, or department.
- When giving examples, mix everyday topics like Enrollment, Athletics, Transportation, and Food Services with more sensitive topics. This reinforces that the service desk is the front door for all kinds of communication, not just problems.
Use this toolkit as a starting point. Customize the language, links, examples, and hashtags to fit your district and community before publishing.