Coppin State University Boosts Campus Safety

University officials will send emergency information to cell phones of students, faculty & staff

LEESBURG, VA --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- April 25, 2007 - Omnilert, LLC, maker of a mass notification system for higher education called e2Campus, today announced that Coppin State University (CSU) will boost campus safety with the activation of a new cell phone text alert system by e2Campus. CSU is using the new web-based service to instantly push urgent news and emergency information to the cell phones of students, faculty and staff via Short Message Service (SMS) text messages.

Chief Miriam Wood, CSU's Campus Police Chief said, “We have implemented an Emergency Messaging System via mobile text alerts. It is a convenient system for all Coppin State University staff, faculty and students as they can sign up for SMS alerts with the option to receive simultaneous e-mail notification.”

Andrew Bain, Director of Web and Multimedia Development at CSU explains, “Students may not be on a computer checking email or the Web when an emergency hits. They may not be in their dorm room either. And, students can’t answer a phone call or check voicemail during class. To be able to send SMS text messages to students wherever they are, warning them of emergencies is a real break-through in student communication.”

“We initially purchased e2Campus for weather alerts, but now public safety is front and center. Later, we plan to use it in the marketing department for connecting with prospective students.”

How It Works
When using e2Campus’ centralized interface, a CSU school official types a message, selects the groups to receive the message, and then presses a button to send it. Within seconds, the message is simultaneously sent to thousands of relevant people via the method each recipient chose to receive it, such as a mobile phone (SMS text message), personal or school email account, RSS feed, wireless PDA, relevant school web pages using the automatic Bulletin Board feature, or “My Yahoo”, AOL, or Personalized Google web page.

About Coppin State University
Founded in 1900, Coppin State University is one of 13 campuses that comprise the University System of Maryland. A historically black liberal arts institution, Coppin State University enrolls approximately 4,300 students and offers more than 24 undergraduate majors, 33 minors, and 11 master’s degree programs in high-need areas such as education, nursing, counseling, and criminal justice. Located in the northwest section of Baltimore, the campus has the unique mission of focusing on the problems, needs, and aspirations of residents of Baltimore City and surrounding areas. A fully accredited urban, residential campus, Coppin serves Baltimore residents as well as students from around the world, with flexible course schedules that include convenient day, evening, and weekend classes.

MIR3 Announces Renewal of Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association - LACERA

inEnterprise™ 2.8 Business Continuity Implementation ensures Uninterrupted Information Protection for LACERA

SAN DIEGO, CA --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- April 25, 2007 – MIR3™, the technology leader in Intelligent Notification (IN®) solutions for global enterprises, today announced that the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA), has signed up for a second year on their emergency notification system contract.

MIR3 has delivered its inEnterprise™ 2.8 which is designed to make critical emergency and non- emergency communications of multi-national companies private, and includes preferred routing, incident management, topic subscription and multi-language support, among others. LACERA exists to produce, protect and provide the promised benefits to approximately 150,000 members. LACERA uses inEnterprise for their business continuity requirements.

By applying the latest technology and innovative problem-solving strategies, such as inEnterprise, along with proven business tactics, they are strategically positioned to respond to fluctuating conditions, prosper in a changing world, and provide the best results for their membership. “The largest corporations in the world have driven the latest developments of version 2.8,” said Dan Long, chief technology officer at MIR3. “This represents an important step toward a complete set of global emergency and non-emergency notification and management tools.

Source: Vendor Press Release

MIR3 Releases inCampusAlert - Emergency Notification and Campus Alerting for Colleges and Universities

Campus-Alerting system supports SMS, pager, cellular and landline capability

SAN DIEGO, CA --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- April 20, 2007 – MIR3™, the technology leader in Intelligent Notification (IN®) solutions for global enterprises, today announced a comprehensive solution for notifications in the academic environment. Included in the product is MIR3’s new topic subscription capability, which allows students and staff to “opt-in” for various types of events such as weather alerts, class announcements, criminal activity warnings, and health notices.

Designed to make critical emergency and non-emergency communications of multi-national companies private, more efficient and cost effective, MIR3’s Intelligent Notification v2.8 can easily handle the requirements of student and staff groups of any magnitude. “We support numerous Fortune 50 companies on a global scale,” said Dan Long, chief technology officer at MIR3.

“We can bring a college campus on-line in less than a day.” MIR3’s new product, inCampusAlert™, which is based on the company’s enterprise-grade technology, bridges the gap between all standard forms of communication to enable high-speed two-way communications to tens of thousands of users and devices.

All modalities are supported, including email, wireless pager, PDA, text messaging, landline, mobile phone, satellite phone, TDD/TTY, fax and two-way SMS. MIR3's notification capabilities can also be used for routine high-volume messaging and all-purpose broadcasting, such as administrative notices to employees, messages for coordinating staffing and schedules, and delivering important, auditable information to customers.

MIR3 Selected by AtHoc as its Service Provider for Telephony Notification

MIR3 to provide Global Telephony Notification Services to AtHoc via inWebServices.
inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification Initiative Continues to Grow.

San Diego, California --[EMERGENCYNOTIFICATIONNEWS] -- April 12, 2007 – MIR3™, the technology leader in Intelligent Notification™ solutions for global enterprises, today announced the company has entered into an agreement with AtHoc, Inc., a leading supplier of enterprise-class network-centric alerting systems, to provide AtHoc and its customers with telephony notification subscription services.

Under the terms of the agreement, MIR3 will provide AtHoc with the ability to trigger telephone notifications using MIR3’s global telephony alerting capabilities. As part of inWebServices, MIR3 exposes its products’ application programming interface (API) as a Web service, making it easy for partners and customers to integrate MIR3 alerting capabilities into their own alerting applications.

“Many of our customers use AtHoc’s IWSAlerts™ net-centric alerting system to fulfill their requirement for a single central notification system that manages and triggers all forms of alerting simultaneously. By partnering with MIR3, we now have a strong option for triggering telephony alerting,” stated Aviv Siegel, chief technology officer for AtHoc. “By connecting the MIR3 service via Web services, telephones act as an extension of our IP-based notification management system. This complements our ability to alert all IP-connected devices, send SMS messages, activate public announcement systems, trigger the national Emergency Alert System (EAS), and provide many more alerting capabilities.”

“After evaluating the notification services market,” continued Siegel, “it became clear that MIR3 has expertise with services oriented architecture and Web services – they know how to deliver on both. They have provided us with a true ‘plug-and-play’ solution that allows us to integrate and ship our products faster.”

MIR3’s chief strategy officer (CSO), Frank Mahdavi, commented, “AtHoc’s unmatched success in the DoD, government and large commercial enterprise markets makes them an ideal partner for MIR3. We believe that AtHoc is positioned to become the alerting standard in the DoD and within the government physical security and force protection market, and we’re excited to be part of the solution. Our Intelligent Notification platform has been widely adopted by system integrators, developers and communication solution providers, due in large part to our commitment to a service oriented architecture, ease-of-implementation, scalability, security and reliability.”

MIR3’s president and CEO Amir Moussavian said, “We came into 2007 with the clear goal of delivering our emergency-ready global notification capability technology to developers and partners through the inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification initiative. AtHoc’s partnership is important to us and we believe that this agreement illustrates MIR3’s technology lead in global enterprise notification. We’re deployed by the largest businesses across diverse corporate functions such as sales and marketing, corporate communications, supply chain management and business continuity, and we look forward to additional partners joining us.”

MIR3 inWebServices is built on the SOAP 1.2-compliant XML J2EE standard. The inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification program costs nothing to join, but registration is required. Developers and integrators can register for the program here.

Source: Vendor Press Release

State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz

University to send campus closings and emergency info to cell phones of students, faculty & staff

LEESBURG, VA --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- April 10, 2007 – Omnilert, LLC, maker of a mass notification system for higher education called e2Campus, today announced that the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz has purchased e2Campus. SUNY New Paltz will use the Web-based service to instantly push urgent news and public safety information to the cell phones of students, faculty and staff whether recipients are in class, on campus, or going about their day off campus. Recipients do not need special software or hardware to receive the alerts. Recipients with an existing cell phone or email account simply register online to receive the alerts.

Rachel Reuben, Director of Web Communication & Strategic Projects at SUNY New Paltz said, “In order to communicate a delay or cancellation on campus due to weather or any other kind of emergency situation, we currently update at least two different Web sites, contact a dozen regional media outlets, update our on-campus information line, contact our switchboard operators and Welcome Center greeters, and send e-mails to the appropriate lists. However, no matter how much outreach we attempt, we still find we get occasional calls from students that say they didn't know or hear that we delayed or canceled classes.”

“We realized it was time to look into other solutions - and that's when we found e2Campus. We have heavy cell phone, and especially text-messaging, use on our campus, and realized that's the perfect way to reach our students, faculty and staff. When we learned that e2Campus has other features that will reduce the time we spend on our current procedures for notifications, we were sold.”

Schenectady County Implements Emergency Notification System

SCHENECTADY, NY --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- April 9, 2007. Schenectady County Legislature Chair Susan Savage announced Monday that the County is partnering with Send Word Now for emergency communications services. The County will utilize Send Word Now’s conference bridging, multi-device contact capabilities, and real-time interactive messaging to supplement existing County emergency communication systems.

“Send Word Now’s technology will enable us to establish instantaneous, two-way communications with critical personnel in emergency situations,” said Savage. “This capability will dramatically improve communication during floods, blizzards, and other emergencies.”

Schenectady County chose to utilize Send Word Now following successful demonstrations for County personnel. “We anticipate being able to use Send Word Now in conjunction with our GIS mapping to communicate effectively from a central location,” says William Van Hoesen, Schenectady County Director of Emergency Management. “We also see using this technology to coordinate drills and tabletop exercises to enhance Schenectady County’s emergency preparedness. Send Word Now can be used to implement a call center on very short notice, which is critical for any emergency response organization.”

Source: Vendor Press Release