Specialty Schools Choose Easy-To-Use e2Campus for Emergency Notifications

Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:03am EDT
 
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LEESBURG, Va., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnilert®, LLC, maker of e2Campus®, the
leading unified emergency notification system for education, today announced a
dozen smaller specialty schools that have recently chosen e2Campus for
multimodal emergency notifications. Customers are citing ease of use,
reliability and affordability as main reasons for choosing e2Campus.

The specialty schools that have recently implemented e2Campus multimodal
emergency notifications include Atlanta Institute of Music, The Cleveland
Institute of Art, Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, Graduate
Institute of Applied Linguistics, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Maine College of
Art, Moore College of Art and Design, New York College of Health Professions,
Pratt Institute, The Wright Institute and others.

William Schmitz, Director of Safety and Security for Pratt Institute in New
York said, "If I am going to be instantly immersed in an emergency situation,
I need to put a message out and spend as little time as possible doing it so I
can continue my focus on the emergency at hand and e2Campus lets me do this.
Its simplicity and speed is very valuable to me."

Mr. Schmitz continued, "I hope I never have to use it in the case of an
emergency, but certainly with the weather, it has been a real effective tool.
It's very fast. I push 'send message' and my cell phone is almost instantly
receiving the message. Even if not everybody has signed up, a lot of people
get the message by word of mouth from those who received the e2Campus alert.

"Since we have signed on with e2Campus, we've not had any problems. It's
effective. It's always worked. It's very easy to use. And, we have confidence
in e2Campus getting the message out. I don't know if you get any easier, any
simpler, any more reliable than what e2Campus offers."

Chris Fragale is the Director of Media Services at Atlanta Institute of Music.
Mr. Fragale said, "e2Campus is a very easy-to-use service. We have to use it
now just to be in touch with our students. They told us point blank that they
do not pay attention to signs we put up on doors or where they have to clock
in everyday, so e2Campus has been an easy tool to reach everyone in an
efficient way.

 "The cost of e2Campus is very competitive and moderately priced compared to
everything else. We chose e2Campus because they cater specifically to schools
and all their services are already tailored towards that environment. I like
that I can track each individual user and add or delete people at any time.

"Since we are a vocational school, every three months we have a new batch of
people and e2Campus makes it easy to stay on top of everything and keep people
informed."

About e2Campus
Used by more than 650 schools around the country, e2Campus is the first and
most trusted unified emergency notification system in education. The award
winning, CAP compliant, Tier-1 notification system enables non-technical staff
to administer and send custom or predefined messages instantly to the entire
campus community for improved crisis communications. There is no traditional
software to install, no hardware to buy and no additional phone lines needed.
Through one unified interface, e2Campus instantly and simultaneously sends
multimodal alerts to a subscriber's mobile phone (via SMS text message),
landline phone (via voice message), computer desktop (pop-up), and e-mail
accounts, plus school infrastructure such as PA systems, digital signage,
alert beacons, Facebook Pages, Twitter Accounts, and relevant school Web
pages. To learn more, visit http://www.e2Campus.com.

About Omnilert
Omnilert, LLC is the leading provider of unified mass notification systems for
better business continuity, emergency management, and routine communication.
The easy-to-use, self-service, Web-based system enables a single person to
communicate timely information to thousands of people anywhere, anytime, on
any device or service. The company's 1,750 clients include the U.S. Army, GE,
Harvard University, Boeing, UNICEF, Sanofi-Aventis, and the National
Institutes of Health. Omnilert solutions are sold under the brand names
e2Campus, Amerilert, and RainedOut. The privately held company is
headquartered in Leesburg, Va., and at http://www.omnilert.com online.

 
SOURCE  Omnilert, LLC

Bryan Crum of Omnilert, +1-800-936-3525 ext. 703, bcrum@omnilert.com

 

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