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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
From: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:03:08 +0100
In article <0D357934-85DE-4935-8F58-02F5FCC1DC8A () americafree tv>, Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv> writes
I would say this partially would depend on how and what you want to communicate. If there is just going to be one pronouncement per day (the school is up / down / delayed), then facebook and / or myspace would suggest themselves.
There's going to be a handful a year. Such as "school closed today due to snow". or "remember - school closed today for staff training" [a curious British phenomenon].
They are to date free, and the students will know what they are. I would start with facebook.If you look at the #AuthorizeNet situation, there was a lot of back and forth. Will the schools have a need forback and forth ?
No, if the school's closed, it's closed. No debate allowed.
Note that this will take people answering questions / dealing with issues on twitter. Specifically, someone would have to pay attention to it during any quasi-emergency period - do the schools have such a person ?
Such a person could be designated.
Also, if the school looses power in a storm,
Schools in urban areas here very rarely lose power in storms. All the cables are underground. Of course, losing power would be another excuse to close the school :)
is there a backup means of getting to the Internet ?
A laptop with a 3g modem would suffice, or for Twitter someone with a suitably configure mobile phone.
-- Roland Perry
Current thread:
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification, (continued)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification JC Dill (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification JC Dill (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification JC Dill (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Stefan (Jul 04)
- RE: Using twitter as an outage notification Frank Bulk (Jul 04)
- RE: Using twitter as an outage notification Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Marshall Eubanks (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Aleksandr Milewski (Jul 04)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Martin List-Petersen (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Martin List-Petersen (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Martin List-Petersen (Jul 05)
- Re: Using twitter as an outage notification Roland Perry (Jul 05)
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