Workspeed Lauches Notifications, The Cutting Edge Emergency Notification System For Commercial Real Estate Businesses

NEW YORK, NY --[Emergency Notification News] -- February 26, 2007 - Workspeed, a leading New York-based provider of Web-based and wireless applications that optimize real estate enterprise performance, today announced the unveiling of Workspeed Notifications, a powerful new system for time critical two-way group communications tailored for building evacuation and disaster recovery that complies with New York Local Law 26. By integrating Workspeed Notifications with their EAP (Emergency Action Plan) data, landlords will be prepared for any emergency situation that demands immediate contact with all of a building's occupants.

Workspeed Notifications allows users to communicate messages to all building occupants via a recorded voice and/or advanced text to speech options. Upon receiving these messages, all building occupants, both inside and outside the building, can immediately reply to a landlord's message, providing rapid actionable data for emergency workers and safety staff.

"Workspeed and its new Notifications service work in tandem to comply with New York Local Law 26, which requires companies to account for their staff in an emergency evacuation and therefore aid the FDNY in rescue operations," said Derrick Chen, CEO of Workspeed. "As a result of this new law, landlords and floor wardens need a fast, reliable and efficient way to contact tenants of the buildings under their management."

Workspeed Notifications offers landlords a system that enables them to reach out to occupants in an emergency situation and track every contact attempt. "No other real estate management system provides users with a unique 'two-way' group communications system that allows landlords not only to reach occupants via multiple communications devices, but also receive responses from each occupant," explained Chen.

Key functionalities of Workspeed Notifications include:

• simplified notification initiation via phone, email or web
• a secure central repository for emergency contact information
• conference bridging for immediate emergency response
• full tracking and real-time response reporting
• seamlessly integrated with EAP management

Workspeed Notifications does not require any specific hardware or software for installation and supports all communication devices and methods including phones, PDAs, Blackberries, email, fax machines and instant messaging. Landlords quickly activate Notifications via the phone or web. Unlike "phone trees" or other less reliable and time-consuming emergency notification methods, the system is supported by a highly fault tolerant infrastructure with secure offsite redundant facilities.

Source: Vendor Press Release

MIR3 Announces inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification Program to Expand Global Enterprise Solutions

MIR3 empowers Integrators and Developers to deliver Global-Ready Applications with Innovative Proactive Messaging and Multiple-Language Support.

MIR3 Debuts New inWebServices Powered by Intelligent Notifications™ Mark.

SAN DIEGO --[EmergencyNotificationNews] -- February 15, 2007 – MIR3™, the technology leader in Intelligent Notification™ solutions for global enterprises, today launched an OEM marketing program for developers and integrators called in®WebServices™ Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification™. Membership in the program will streamline the use of the MIR3 Application Programming Interface (API) and provide on-demand access to an API user group, and API developer and technical support forums. MIR3 will also offer co-marketing assistance and an Intelligent Notification Solutions Directory, listing members’ Web services-enabled solutions.

The Intelligent Notification Solutions Directory is aimed at energizing and formalizing a community of developers that are creating web services-based solutions to link emergency and routine notifications with business processes, databases, web services and workflows within an enterprise and across the corporate value chain.

MIR3 inWebServices is built on the SOAP 1.2-compliant XML J2EE standard. The program does not cost anything to join but registration is required. Developers and integrators can register for the program here.

Frank Mahdavi, MIR3 chief strategy officer, said, “We believe the program will enable members to explore new business models, expand their current offerings into global enterprises and importantly - save development dollars. MIR3 has wide global deployment, used by some of the largest businesses across corporate functions such as sales and marketing, corporate communications, supply chain management and business continuity. The technology will bring an emergency-ready global notification capability into the web services arena for all program members.”

MIR3 Debuts 'inWebServices Powered by Intelligent Notifications™' Mark
In conjunction, MIR3 also launched the new inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification™ logo, which identifies a wide range of web services solutions using the MIR3 API engine. As part of MIR3’s co-marketing program, MIR3 licenses the logo to OEMs for placement in their qualified services, technology and marketing materials.

Frank Mahdavi added, “MIR3's technology and software product portfolio cover a wide array of functions from comprehensive global enterprise notification solutions to OEM developer solutions and related services, to individual applications that support specific market segments like emergency notification and community alerting. The new inWebServices Powered by Intelligent Notifications™ logo provides a way to easily identify those solutions built with MIR3's API engine.”

Coast Guard Auxiliary Will Use 3n Mass Notification System to Alert Personnel Prior To and During Natural Disasters or Terrorist Events

GLENDALE, CA --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- February 13, 2007 -3n (National Notification Network), a mass notification system provider, is providing use of the 3n mass notification system to the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary. The Coast Guard Auxiliary Association is a non-profit 501c3 corporation that supports the USCG Auxiliary. The 3n system allows the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary to alert members prior to and during natural disasters or terrorist events. The system will be used by the all-volunteer Auxiliary, which consists of 30,000 members who are “Semper Paratus – Always Ready”, to promote Maritime Homeland Security and Boating Safety. As part of the gift, 3n will train Auxiliary personnel in the application and operation of the system.

"Use of the 3n system will provide greater flexibility, focus and execution to Coast Guard Auxiliary missions directed at securing America’s waterways," said John VanOdsol, Staff Officer. "The Auxiliary will be able to quickly and efficiently alert, coordinate and deploy personnel in response to any disaster or threat. The Auxiliary appreciates 3n's recognition of the importance of keeping our waterways safe and secure."

Cinta Putra, CEO and co-founder of 3n, commented, "3n is honored to provide this valuable service and to assist the Auxiliary in continually searching for maritime safety and security enhancements. We admire the commitment of the Auxiliary's volunteers and look forward to aiding the Auxiliary on their mission of promoting Maritime Homeland Security and Boating Safety."

About the Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc., is a Non-Profit, 501c3 corporation. The Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard authorized the establishment of the Association as the only corporation authorized to provide for the fiscal support of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. For more information, log on to www.cgauxa.org.

About the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary – a volunteer-driven organization – contributes to the safety and security of citizens, ports, waterways, and coastal regions. Directed by the United States Coast Guard, the Auxiliary's 30,000 members are involved in Maritime Homeland Security missions, Search and Rescue, and Vessel Safety Checks. For more information about the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, log on to www.cgauxa.org.

Source: Vendor Press Release

Central Virginia Community College Raises Public Safety

CVCC considering the text messaging system for student recruitment

LEESBURG, VA --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- January 31, 2007 – Omnilert, LLC, maker of a mass notification system for higher education called e2Campus, today announced that Central Virginia Community College (CVCC) has activated the e2Campus mass notification system to raise public safety for the entire campus community. CVCC is using the web-based service to communicate urgent news to students, faculty and staff whether recipients are in class, on campus, or miles away.

John K. Poole, VP of Finance for CVCC explains, "As a relatively new user of e2Campus, our focus has been on getting public safety or emergency communications out to everyone instantly no matter where they may be."

How It Works
Using e2Campus’ centralized interface, a CVCC 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), Blackberry, personal or school email account, RSS feed, or relevant school web pages.

Westchester County Extending Its Communications Reach to the Public

White Plains, NY --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- January 29, 2007 - In late 2005, Westchester County officials introduced an initiative to better reach citizens in the event of an emergency. Communications capabilities have now been expanded to alert area residents of any large-scale, critical situation by email, text and phone.

Using Dialogic’s Communicator! NXT, Westchester County can get in touch with first responders, local officials, volunteers and the like using all available communications devices. In order to have this same reach with the general public, should a major emergency occur, the County has launched a web page, http://www.westchestergov.com/cens/, to collect various contact information.

Once at Westchester County’s site, residents, businesses and not-for-profit agencies will find their own link for registration. Here they can submit cell, work and home phone numbers as well as email addresses, all of which will remain confidential. The data is then downloaded by County officials and imported into Communicator! NXT.

Andy Spano, County Executive, explains, “If people give us their email addresses and phone numbers, we will have a number of options when it comes to getting information out. We will also be able to communicate directly just as we now do with our emergency responders, local officials and the media.”

Should time permit, the Department of Emergency Services will now be able to send direct notice to the public about pending inclement weather, including blizzards and other major storms. Information can also be provided immediately following the emergency regarding issues such as road or health hazards, supplies, re-entry to damaged areas and more.

About Westchester County
Westchester County covers an area of 450 square miles and has a diverse population residing in 45 municipalities. Its geographical setting is a favorable one, with the Long Island Sound and Connecticut on the east and the Hudson River on the west. As one of the nation's most affluent counties with per capita income well above state and national levels, it has retained much of its rural character while adopting the urban and suburban lifestyles reflected by its proximity to New York City. For more information, visit www.westchestergov.com.