Planning for a Crisis: Conducting a Full Scale Drill
An emergency can strike a campus at any time. Whether it’s a man made event, a natural disaster, or a simple accident that evolves into something much larger, school administrations must be ready to...
View ArticleSeven Questions with Captain Lawrence Wright
The ‘seven questions’ series highlights the experiences of practitioners and thought-leaders in the field of Emergency Management & Response. Omnilert is excited to launch this new series of blog...
View ArticleKeeping it Simple: A Guide to an Effective, Easy Emergency Communications Plan
Preparing and rolling out a communication plan is an often thankless, always difficult job. It’s one of those tough jobs that sounds so simple, but it’s not simple at all. It just looks “too easy” when...
View ArticleDo You Scenario? How to Remove Emotion when Every Second Counts
There is a rapidly approaching twister forming just minutes away and you need to notify your community to seek shelter… NOW. Security cameras confirm that there is an active shooter in the lobby and it...
View ArticleOmnilert CEO to speak at ACUTA
You’re invited! Please join us on Monday, April 20 at 1:15pm, at next week’s ACUTA conference for Omnilert CEO Ara Bagdasarian’s informative talk. The Crisis Continuum: The new perspective on mass...
View ArticleSeven Questions with Robert Eubanks CMSP/CSM
The ‘seven questions’ series highlights the experiences of practitioners and thought-leaders in the field of Emergency Management & Response. This latest installment of the ‘seven questions’ series...
View ArticleOmnilert Co-founder Ara Bagdasarian tells all on Mixergy
Andrew Warner, host of the wildly popular Mixergy podcast, loves to talk to entrepreneurs about how they started their companies. His interviews are legend. Always exceedingly well-prepared, he peppers...
View ArticleSeven Questions with Mark Branham
The ‘seven questions’ series highlights the experiences of practitioners and thought-leaders in the field of Emergency Management & Response. This latest installment of the ‘seven questions’ series...
View ArticleThe Crisis Communication Continuum Part One
Communicating with the masses has been a fundamental challenge humans have grappled with since the dawn of existence. As time progressed, the ingenuity of man yielded advancements in the ability to...
View ArticleThe Crisis Communication Continuum Part Two – Before
Continuing from last week’s post, introducing the Crisis Communication Continuum, we move onto the first step: Before Preparations before an incident occurs is the most important aspect of the...
View ArticleOmnilert Receives Innovative Solutions Consortium Award for Most Disruptive...
Omnilert’s Scenario Manager Recognized for One-Click Emergency Response for School Safety Omnilert, the pioneer in mass emergency notification systems, announced today that its Scenarios Manager...
View ArticleVirginia Representative Comstock Taps Omnilert to Learn About Latest Advances...
Omnilert, the pioneer in mass emergency notification systems, was recently host to Virginia’s 10th District Representative Barbara Comstock, providing her with a view into the latest advances in...
View ArticleAfter the Storm: Start Preparing for the Next, Today
When news outlets assign silly names to serious winter storms—Snowpocalypse. Snowmaggeddon. Snowzilla, and the like—it diminishes the true dangers of weather-related events like this January’s storm...
View ArticleSeven Questions with Bryan Ayers from GE-Alstom Power
Omnilert: Tell us about Alstom Power. Bryan: Alstom Power is a global company. We are based out of France. Our US operations involve a number of things- and I should say that we recently changed...
View ArticleThe 3 Most Overlooked Endpoints for Emergency Notification
It’s safe to say that three technologies have emerged to be the most commonly used for emergency notifications: SMS (text messages), email, and old-fashioned voice phone calls. Just about every...
View ArticleSeven Questions with Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld
We had chance to speak with Fred Bealefeld about his in-classroom experience with the March 31, 2014 lockdown at Stevenson University. Fred is a remarkable individual whose 31-year career in law...
View ArticleThe Power of Scenarios… Now Also on the Apple Watch
There’s an instant rush of adrenaline when someone first realizes that a crisis has started. The mind races, working to process a stressful situation. There’s confusion and fear; there’s a lot that...
View ArticleFailure is not an option. It’s inevitable.
Another clear case for multimodality. Here’s a topic that can be uncomfortable for some to address, yet is too important to ignore: Technology will fail. Networks have outages. Storms knock down phone...
View Article7 Questions with Jerry Haynes with EOG Resrouces
Jerry Haynes is a Senior Operations Specialist at EOG Resources (Enron Oil & Gas Company) located in San Antonio, Texas. Omnilert: Tell us a bit about yourself and your position within EOG....
View Article7 Questions with Christian Lanphere, Cambridge Health Alliance, MA
Omnilert : Tell us about yourself. Christian: Most of my experience has been in the emergency arena. I’ve worked in level one trauma centers, as a paramedic, and firefighter / EMS. I have been with the...
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