Emergency Mass Notification: Big Picture How do you alert the most number of people in the shortest period of time? This first show in the series covers everything from knocking on doors to sophisticated cell phone alert systems. Also includes best practices and management overview.  Access this program NOW.      RATINGS: [CS] [CM] [EM] [MD]  Program Description Emergency Notification Systems (ENS) are a key tool for public safety agencies and are being used in a number of different variations across the US and elsewhere. For example, when a Tornado Watch is issued by the National Weather Service, or a tornado is sighted nearby, the campus police at Agnes Scott College, near Atlanta, manually activate their tornado siren to warn students and local citizens of the possible disaster. More than 1.4 million automated telephone calls were made to citizens and businesses in the path of Hurricane Ike in September 2008 and continued to be made after the storm passed to alert them as to clean-up progress and status of critical infrastructure. In the wake of the April 16, 2007 campus shootings at Virginia Tech, Sacramento State University (CA) implemented an electronic Emergency Notification System which sends out text messages to cell phones and e-mail accounts of students, faculty and staff in the event of a significant incident on campus. The Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 program, The Big Picture, the first program in this series, will include brief descriptions of a wide range of emergency notification technologies as well as some guidelines for successful deployment of Emergency Notification Systems in your jurisdiction. Technologies that will be discussed in this program include vehicle-mounted loudspeakers, warning sirens, radio and TV, telephone, Amber Alerts, fax, electronic signage, messaging including email, text messages, Short Message Service (SMS) and Twitter Tweets, one-way paging and TTY/TDD. These technologies will also be covered in greater depth in subsequent programs in this series. And, as with all LEAPS.TV programs ample time will be provided to interact with our expert LEAPS.TV presenters. [Recommend this LEAPS.TV program to a colleague.] Presenter Bios George Molczan, Author, Trainer, Consultant Training Institute for Public Safety George Molczan is a hands-on telephony expert and author specializing in the technical and regulatory aspects of 9-1-1 and the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). His practical experience includes communications network operations, project management, and technical course design and instruction. As a public safety and law enforcement liaison, George is responsible for regulatory, technical and operational issues of wireless and wireline E9-1-1 implementations. George is also the author of A Legal and Law Enforcement Guide to Telephony. George is a NENA member and maintains a web site at www.gmolczan.com. Rick Cox, Consultant, Author, Table Top Exerciser Training Institute for Public Safety Rick Cox is a career veteran of the wireless industry with strong emphasis on cellular. Mr. Cox 's customer base has long included public sector agencies at the Federal, state, county and local levels with an emphasis on their communications in both normal and crisis situations, table top exercises and disaster recovery including fixed location communications and alternative/mobile communications. Rick is also a recognized expert in emergency notification technologies and is the co-author of Emergency Notification Systems: Technologies, Policies and Practices with George Molczan published in NENA 's Emergency Number Professional (ENP) Magazine. Rick is a member of the Citizen 's Emergency Response Team (CERT) where he applies skills acquired in the US Army for the benefit and enhanced safety of his community. Advisors   > LeAnn Krieg, ENP, Program Advisor         Police Communications Supervisor , UW-Madison Police Department Background/Preparatory Reading Emergency Notification Systems: Technologies, Policies and Practices by George Molczan and Rick Cox. NENA Emergency Number Professional Magazine, January/February 2009. Emergency notification systems bring with them a host of issues regarding implementation, policies and procedures. As with other emergency and public safety systems, they should have built in redundancy, overflow and interoperability. http://leaps.tv/archive/ENPEmergencyNotification-Article.pdf Sponsored by This program is being made available at no charge to the law enforcement and public safety community thanks to the generous support of HipLink Wireless Solutions, Inc..