OXFORD, MS — April 26, 2007 — AnComm, a leading provider of anonymous messaging and communications solutions to the education market, today announced the immediate availability of Global Alert, an emergency notification service that enables school administrators to broadcast real-time e-mail and text alerts to students and faculty. AnComm’s Global Alert service is designed to allow faculty to proactively notify every student and teacher of an impending emergency situation or natural disaster by sending vital communications to desktops, laptops, pdas and other types of wireless devices.
AnComm’s Global Alert service is a new addition to the company’s Talk About It anonymous reporting service — currently in use by more than 60 school systems across the United States — that enables school administrators to dramatically improve the flow and frequency of information between faculty and students. With the availability of the new Global Alert service, school administrators are empowered with a simple, easy-to-use tool to rapidly disseminate broad-based emergency communications in order to proactively prevent violent situations in elementary and secondary schools, and institutions of higher education. The new enhancement is available at no additional cost to all current subscribers of AnComm’s Talk About It web-based anonymous reporting service.
“We know that students are the best source of information for what is occurring in our schools and we also know that children prefer to communicate using internet mediums like e-mail, instant messaging, and text messaging,” said Carter Myers, President of AnComm. “With the Talk About It service, students who have previously been afraid to come forward with information or to seek help for a problem can anonymously reach out and establish a new line of communication.”
Join Us for a Demo of AnComm’s Global Alert Service
To learn more about the Ancomm’s Talk About It service and the new Global Alert capabilities, AnComm will be hosting an online seminar Wednesday, May 2, at 1 p.m. EST with AnComm President Carter Myers. Registration is open to school system administrators, faculty, parents and students at http://www.ancomm.com.
U.S. Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS)
Funding for AnComm’s Talk About It anonymous reporting service can be provided for under Title IV, the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act. Programs authorized under this legislation provide financial assistance for state and local drug and violence prevention activities in elementary and secondary schools, and institutions of higher education. For more information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/programs.html#state.
About AnComm
AnComm is a leading provider of anonymous messaging and communications solutions to the education market. Easy to implement and affordable, ‘‘Talk About It®’’ opens two-way lines of communication between students and school administrators. For students, ‘‘Talk About It’’ gives students a web-based tool to communicate their troubles, breaking the code of silence through anonymous communication. For schools, administrators and counselors are newly empowered with information so that they may take proactive steps to communicate, intervene and resolve school violence before it occurs.
AnComm was founded in 2005 and has offices in Houston, Texas and Oxford, Mississippi. To learn how your school or educational institution can benefit from AnComm’s ‘‘Talk About It’’ anonymous online and text based reporting service, visit our web sites at http://talkaboutit.ancomm.com or http://www.ancomm.com or call (866) 926-2666. |
