Press Release

CHANTILLY, VA, February 23, 2010 – SpectraRep®, LLC announced today that two colleges have recently selected ActiveCrawl RSS® as its campus-wide desktop solution for emergency notifications. Goshen College in Indiana and Francis Marion University in Florence, SC are deploying ActiveCrawl RSS through e2Campus, the leading unified emergency notification system for education. With the text-based system, campus officials can send emergency alerts immediately to the computer desktops of all students, faculty and staff via text-based crawls that scroll on their computer screens.

Both schools are small to mid-size but have large campuses spread among several buildings on 100 or more acres. The need to reach students, faculty, and staff en-masse during weather or other emergencies necessitated an efficient method that would provide instructions and critical details to everyone at once.

“Security and safety are very important to the administration of Francis Marion,” said John Dixon, Chief Information Officer at the university. “We believe desktop alerting provides a powerful mechanism to inform people in a moment of crisis, particularly since the campus population uses and tends to be near their computers and laptops for extended periods of time.”

ActiveCrawl RSS is part of SpectraRep’s ActiveAccess™ suite of solutions for emergency alerting to the computer desktop. As a Certified Endpoint Provider of e2Campus, ActiveCrawl RSS is easily accessed through the e2Campus web interface to initiate and send alerts to the desktop. Text crawls are delivered within seconds of being issued. On the desktop, ActiveCrawl RSS sits in the system tray. When an event does occur, alerts scroll directly on the computer screen. Alerts appear in front of all open programs and applications so they are not missed.

“Through its integration with e2Campus, ActiveCrawl RSS provides us with an automatic way to send out desktop alerts simultaneously with other platform alerts,” said Bill Born, Vice President of Student Life at Goshen College. “It’s a major part of our multi-modal approach to campus alerting and security. With it we feel we are fully prepared should an event arise that requires we notify people at a moment’s notice.”

Additional information on the suite of ActiveAccess solutions for emergency alerting is available at http://www.spectrarep.com/products/activeaccess/activecrawlrss.htm or by emailing sales@spectrarep.com to request a personal demonstration.
 

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About Goshen College

Goshen College, established in 1894, is a residential Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. The college's Christ-centered core values – passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron's Best Buys in Education, "Colleges of Distinction," "Making a Difference College Guide" and U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" edition, which named Goshen a "least debt college." Visit www.goshen.edu.

About Francis Marion University

Francis Marion University, founded in 1970, is one of South Carolina's 13 four-year, state-supported universities. As one of the state's six comprehensive institutions, FMU prides itself on providing a strong liberal arts education. Named for Revolutionary War hero, General Francis Marion, the university enrolls nearly 4,000 students. The university offers a broad range of undergraduate degrees and a select number of graduate programs in serving the needs of communities, businesses and industries of the Pee Dee region. Francis Marion is the only state university serving the Pee Dee region, and many of its students are the first in their families to go to college. Visit http://www.fmarion.edu.

About SpectraRep

SpectraRep® LLC is a leading provider of emergency notification applications, managed network solutions and systems for homeland security, public safety, education and mass media sectors. ActiveAccess™ by SpectraRep® delivers a suite of trusted solutions like ActiveCrawl RSS for rapid emergency alerting to the computer desktop. ActiveAccess, in combination with SpectraRep’s AlertManager™ and IncidentOne™ solutions, provides a comprehensive emergency alert notification resource for colleges and universities, state and local governments, businesses and organizations. Current clients include: Virginia Wesleyan College, Northwestern College, Buena Vista University, Lander University, West Texas A&M, Goshen College, Francis Marion University, Gray Television Incorporated, Meredith Corporation, and Entercom Communications Corporation.

Further information is available at: http://www.spectrarep.com/products/activeaccess/activecrawlrss.htm.