As reported in delawareonline.com Oct.11, 2007, the campus-notification system SendWordNow, was tested at the University Of Delaware. What follows are details from the article.
Location:
University of Delaware
System:
SendWordNow
Test Date and Time: Oct. 10th, 2007, 10:00 am
Message Sent:
"This is a test of the UD Alert system. This is only a test. There is no real emergency."
Methods/Qty of Notifications:
Email: 27,000
Mobile: SMS: 10,000
Notifications Received*:
Email: Not Reported
Mobile: SMS: 33% Responded
System Cost:"More than $50,000 anually."
System Capacity:
"...send messages to 60,000 contacts, enough to cover both full- and part-time students and staffers."
Delawareonline.com reported:
"UD sent out e-mail messages to most of the campus community because students and staff receive school-issued accounts -- providing a cell phone number for text messages is voluntary. Test e-mails included instructions for users to provide a number for text messages."
Public Safety Director James Flatley said, "more than 98 percent of the text messages and more than 96 percent of e-mails were sent successfully during the test, judging by the low number of messages that "bounced back" from invalid e-mail accounts or phone numbers."
*No post-test survey was completed.
Source: delawareonline.com
