Omnilert, maker of e2Campus, the leading emergency notification system for higher education, announced that Pacific University of Forest Grove, Oregon is the first school in the country to integrate their Facebook and Twitter accounts into the e2Campus emergency notification system.
This allows Pacific University to send e2Campus alerts automatically and simultaneously to the school’s Facebook and Twitter accounts without the need for logging into Facebook and Twitter separately.
Students who are not yet enrolled in the school’s official alert system can now get campus alerts through Facebook and Twitter. There was no extra cost to integrate the alerts into Facebook and Twitter.
“This is one less thing we have to worry about when managing a campus emergency,” said Lee Colaw, Vice President of Information Services at Pacific University. “Now if we broadcast emergency communications, we can feel confident we will reach the most people in the least amount of time with the least amount of steps and man power.”
e2Campus is used by nearly 600 campuses around the country for multimodal emergency notification. It enables school officials to self-administer and send time-sensitive messages for a fraction of the cost and complexity of existing notification solutions. Facebook and Twitter are free. With more than 110 million active users, Facebook is the fourth-most trafficked website in the world. Twitter allows its users to send and read other users’ updates, up to 140 characters in length.
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