BYUSA Joins the 'Texting' Craze with New Program - BYUNewsNet - October 15, 2007
BYUSA will take advantage of the texting fad by sending out mass text messages to students informing them of upcoming campus events. Students can receive text messages about BYUSA events by texting BYUSA to 25827.
"The texting service that we provide is a way for students to find out about campus events," said Devon Glassman, BYUSA vice president. " I know I am really attached to my phone, I get texts all the time and I always look at a text message. I don't always look at a poster that I walk by." (Read More...)
Virginia Tech reportedly considered implementing a text message notification system earlier this year, however, no such system was in place on the morning of April 16 when Seung-Hui Cho went on his shooting rampage, killing more than 30 Virigina Tech students and teachers. (Read More...)
News Analysis: The rush to more efficiently send out emergency text messages to students at universities has been intensified by the Virginia Tech shootings. (Read More...)
Despite 9/11, the wreckage of Katrina and the messy evacuation of Houston, this nation still has no way to use the most effective communication system in history to get information during disasters to the people who need it. It's a no-brainer: Wireless text should be the basis for an emergency information system. (Read More...)