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Emergency notification in jeopardy if students tune out digital signage
If a digital sign can’t convey a message in seven seconds, the technology runs the risk of blending into the background, one expert says—and during campus emergencies, that…
College changes emergency alert system after tsunami scare
Marymount College in Palo Verdes, Calif., has switched to a cloud-based emergency notification system after the campus’s old alert technology failed to warn students and faculty of a…
No problems with text alerts after latest Virginia Tech shootings
Virginia Tech students said they received a nearly constant stream of text message and eMail updates from school officials after a gunman killed a campus police officer and…
Translating Twitter for campus disasters
Twitter just got even more concise: Students, faculty members, and campus administrators can tweet more efficiently with an application that ... Read more
New Blackboard notifications: Customizable, quick, and mobile
College students already inundated with eMails and texts to their smartphones can now decide when they get campus messages blasted out to the student body using Blackboard Inc.’s…
Not getting the (text) message
Traditional methods of mass notification, such as sirens, television, and radio, only provide critical information to the community in a timely manner if they tune in. And, in…
Notification delay surfaces in Alabama shootings
Nearly an hour passed before University of Alabama at Huntsville officials dispatched emergency notification to students and faculty after fatal shootings allegedly committed by a professor, raising new…