Would your business stay afloat?We recently presented at the Resilient Scotland Conference in Edinburgh – our topic was the importance of considering potential impacts from flooding in your business continuity plan. Sadly, our topic was all too topical, with Storm...
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5 simple steps to using a mass notification tool as part of your business continuity program
5 simple steps to using a mass notification tool as part of your business continuity programMass notification is a broad term; depending on who you’re talking with, it can mean anything from a one way text blast, right up to a multi-channel two way communication...
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 5
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 5What’s the solution for making resilient communications easy?We’ve asked a lot of questions in this series of articles, and discussed some of the roadblocks we’ve seen our customers face: Why are communications important to...
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 4
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 4What stops you using resilient communications?Once you have buy in, and you’ve gone ahead and implemented some kind of resilient communication methods, that’s not the end of the story. Whether you went for a simple...
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 3
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 3What stops you investing in resilient communications?There are so many myths around implementing communication plans! We’ve been working in this sector for over 20 years – back in the day, if you needed to communicate with a...
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 2
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 2What do we mean by resilient communications?In our previous article, we learnt that we can’t be resilient in isolation. We need to collaborate, and and we need to communicate effectively with people, regardless of what’s...
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 1
Resilient Communications Made Easy – Part 1Why are communications important to resilience?First of all, let’s take a few minutes to answer the most obvious questions. What have communications got to do with resilience? What are you going to get out of this series of...
Mass notification services for the NHS and beyond!
Mass notification services for the NHS and beyond! Implementing a mass notification service can be a daunting task, and getting buy-in from front line staff can be the trickiest piece of the puzzle.Improving the way that you communicate with your staff isn’t just a...
Five myths about using SMS for emergency notification
Five myths about using SMS for emergency notificationDespite the rise of app based messaging, old school sms texts still provide valuable benefits as part of your emergency mass notification service kit bag.Did you know? The number of monthly texts sent has increased...
Audit controls for your emergency notification service
Audit controls for your emergency notification service Controlling access to your ENS … and the sensitive data stored there Emergency notification services are designed to help you contact tens, hundreds or thousands of people at the touch of a button. The downside of...
Choosing your emergency notification system
Choosing your emergency notification systemA quick google search will show you just how many different emergency notification emergency systems are out there. But how do you choose the right vendor (and platform) for you?Most systems these days will give you two way...
What we’ve got here, is failure to communicate …
What we’ve got here, is failure to communicate …Latest business continuity institute report shows “lack of understanding from recipients” as the leading cause of failure to achieve response rate targets with emergency notification services.The recently published BCI...
Why it’s a bad idea to rely on email only communications …
Why it’s a bad idea to rely on email only communications …For the last 15 years, we’ve specialised in providing our customers with resilient, UK based mass notification services. Here’s why our platform provides multiple communication paths as standard… Redundancy and...
Improving your emergency messaging with high quality Text to Speech voices
Improving your emergency messaging with high quality Text to Speech voicesWe’re the only UK owned mass notification company with UK hosting, UK support and now … UK regional accents for our text to speech (TTS) voices! The importance of high-quality TTS Text to speech...
Closing the communication loop by capturing responses
Closing the communication loop by capturing responsesFor the last 15 years, we’ve specialised in providing our customers with resilient, UK based mass communication services. What makes us different? Notification vs communication Business continuity messaging usually...