Link: Scoop: Bells and Whistles: Texting Given Emergency Duty It’s free and it may even save your life. The power of texting is being harnessed to help give Taranaki people warning of impending Civil Defence emergencies. Free text alerts from the Taranaki Civil Defence Emergency Management Group will be broadcast as necessary to all those [...]

I had my head in my hands reading this story — ‘geez, not another emergency text service failing to deliver’ — particularly after the news from November that the Connecticut State University text notification system didn’t work. Here’s the story I caught: Link: The Independent Florida Alligator: News – UF to test texting alerts after [...]

On the back of the news story I published earlier related to e2Campus, here’s a note on two other providers, Rave Wireless and Mobile Campus… Link: Startups rush to deliver phone-based alert systems to campuses : SecureID News Colleges have other options for cell phone alerts, of course. They could go off campus and hire [...]

Business is brisk for the chaps over at emergency alert services company, Omnilert, providers of e2Campus. I suspect it’s been a good year for them. Link: San Luis Obispo County’s website | 12/19/2007 | New system will use text messages to alert Cal Poly students and staff of campus emergencies Cal Poly students and employees [...]

An SMS Text News reader has emailed me asking if I know of any companies providing Emergency Text/SMS services in Switzerland. I can’t think of any. Can you? If so, please do let me know — either posting a comment below or by email.

Ah now you know how I’m forever going on about how Universities, Colleges, Schools and organisations need to implement emergency text services? Well, here’s a bit of news from the University of Connecticut. They’ve installed one such system (provided by emergency notification service, Reverse 911) and they did a test recently. Predictably, some staff and [...]