Brian Payst on February 25th, 2009

We ran a test of Alert Carolina recently and have some real world SMS delivery numbers that I think are worth a post. We sent a little over 24,000 messages in slightly more than 7 minutes. A key metric in that is that we sent almost 80% of the messages by the second minute and [...]

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Brian Payst on February 17th, 2009

We had a bomb threat the other evening on campus. It turned out to be a hoax, and the situation was handled very well by our campus police who cordoned off the area, evacuated buildings and put the safety of our students first.
The post-event discussion has centered around the process we used to notify [...]

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