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Emergency notifications on campus
Colleges find new ways to alert students
LEESBURG, Va. -- Many colleges and universities across the country are turning to emergency notification systems as one answer to the increasingly complex issue of campus safety and crisis communications. The best emergency notification systems are those that broadcast alerts using multiple communication channels thereby increasing the chance intended recipients will get the message.
"To illustrate the increase in campus adoption, over one million emergency alerts were sent in February alone," said Ara Bagdasarian, CEO of Omnilert, LLC.
Students prefer to receive an alert on a cell phone as a text message, while a professor may need to hear an alert over the internal PA system. Staff members at home or the office may prefer to get a phone call, while visitors walking around campus need to either see an alert on a digital sign or hear an alert from a rooftop-mounted loudspeaker.
Additionally, the e2Campus notification system has a feature called SEED that can automatically include every single school email address in the alert, so students can get the alert even if they have not signed up for text message alerts. For students who have not opted-in to the system, they may also see the alert on a digital sign or hear the alert over the loudspeaker or PA system.
This is the power of a multi-modal emergency notification system -- alerts are delivered in the way the recipient needs to receive it.
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