Everbridge: How to Comply with Changes to the Clery Act
Tornadoes and Turmoil: Staying Ahead of the Storm
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2. Tornadoes and Turmoil:
Staying Ahead of the Storm
Ken Reeves
Vice President and Director, Forecasting Operations
AccuWeather
3. About Everbridge
• Leader in incident notification systems
• Fast-growing global company with
more than 1,500 clients in more
than 100 countries
• Serve the Global 2000, healthcare
systems, state and local government,
federal government, military, financial
services firms, and universities
• 100% focused on incident notification
solutions that merge technology
and expertise
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4. Agenda
Part 1: Presentation
• The 2011 Severe Weather forecast
• Reducing risks by planning communications
• Keeping others informed of facility closures, hazardous conditions,
and more
Part 2: Q&A
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34. You create an effective plan
• Consider people affected by your organization
• Walk through every possible emergency scenario
• Make choices about types of messages
• Determine channels of communication
• How will these messages be delivered?
• How will you know the message was received?
• Is there a confirmation process?
• Is an automated system in place?
• Pre-messaging
• Deep background education
• Hone and refine actual message
35. Are your first responders prepared
to send your message? Tornadoes
• Key personnel may Hail Storms
be unavailable
• Have teams ready for day
or late night hazards Floods
• Take into consideration Lightning
hazard may have effected
team member
• Ensure an alternate Snow Storms
reliable decision maker is
in place if key personnel is Wind Damage
unavailable due to hazard
or schedule absences
or illness
38. Expert Insight: Huron County, Ohio
Challenges:
• Tornado & prevalent flood prone region
• Accurate shape files for notifying the ‘right’ households
• Up-to-date weather information to coordinate responders
Solution: SmartGIS® & AccuWeather®
• Meteorologist-backed weather intelligence
• Notify specific households with location-based information
• Early warning for first-responders and emergency personnel
“Our goal is to keep our citizens informed ahead of drastic
weather. With the reliability of Everbridge and the accuracy of
AccuWeather, we discovered a whole layer of protection we
didn’t know existed in the market place.”
-- Jason Roblin,
Director of Huron County Emergency Management Agency
40. About Everbridge
• Leader in incident notification systems
• Fast-growing global company with
more than 1,500 clients in more
than 100 countries
• Serve the Global 2000, healthcare
systems, state and local government,
federal government, military, financial
services firms, and universities
• 100% focused on incident notification
solutions that merge technology
and expertise
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41. Incident notification solutions address
common communication challenges
• Communicate quickly, easily, and • Reduce miscommunications and
efficiently with large numbers of control rumors with accurate,
people in minutes, not hours, making consistent messages
sure that the lines of communication
are open
• Satisfy regulatory requirements
• Receive feedback from your with extensive and complete
messages by using polling reporting of communication attempts
capabilities and two-way acknowledgements
from recipients
• Ensure two-way communications
to get feedback from message • Deliver refined, prepared , timed
receivers messages to each pre-designated
audience group, by scenario
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42. Key evaluation criteria for an
incident notification system
• Experience and expertise
• Ease of use
• Ease of integration
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44. Communication
resources
Contact information Upcoming webinars:
• System Demo (May 31)
www.everbridge.com/webinars
Ken Reeves White papers, literature, case studies
reeves@accuweather.com www.everbridge.com/resources
AccuWeather Follow us:
sales@accuweather.com blog.everbridge.com
twitter.com/everbridge
1.814.235.8600
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Keith Tyndall
keith.tyndall@everbridge.com
1.818.230.9700
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