Just suggesting an ingame alert status of whichever colour alert you are at. It could simply be a bar below the top country bar with your turns and money etc. You could even have it controlled from your host sites/have a short message inside it. Would make it quicker for people to respond to new bulletins.

Kinda getting the basis of the idea from lastknights.com's HC board.

tighter clan integration would be one of my eventual goals; something like this we could probably do in some manner or another...