Alertus Desktop clarification

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We've been using this for about a year and it works well and we have gotten a lot of positive feedback. When it goes it happens quickly and often beats the text message. This is tied into our e2campus notification so it adds another way to get the word out. We still encourage people to register their cell phone but this helps. For on-campus it is pushed out through our AD environment to labs and most staff desktops (some faculty but most faculty aren't tied to our central AD). Optionally, students and others can download the client (I did this) and it works well on mac and pc. jack

---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- Sender: The EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group Listserv Poster: Bryan Price Subject: Re: Alertus Desktop clarification ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ----=_--076bf595.076bf4af.cca5fcd9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit We have been very pleased with the features, functionality and ease of use of [ http://www.ravemobilesafety.com/ ]Rave Alert. - Bryan Bryan D Price Chief Information Officer Ph. 617.898.2103 Fx. 617.898.1705 Milton Academy 170 Centre Street Milton, MA 02186 The EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group Listserv on Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM -0400 wrote: >Colleagues, > > >Having just participated in California's great shakeout we have >been looking at additional methods to alert our students, staff and >faculty.The Alertus Desktop is one we are looking at currently and I am >wondering if anyone out there has had any experience with the product. >Thank you. > > >Doug > > >Douglas Burke >Director >Network Infrastructure Systems & Services >University of San Diego >5998 Alcala Park >Maher Hall Room 197 >San Diego, CA  92110-2492 >Phone      (619) 260.6868 >Fax           (619) 849.8383 >E-mail     [ mailto:burke@SanDiego.edu ]burke@SanDiego.edu > > > > >USD Technology Services will never ask for your password.   Please do >not >share it with others! >Any email that does request this or other personal information is >fraudulent and you should delete it or mark it as Junk Mail and block the >sender. > > > > > > >Douglas Burke >Director  >Network Infrastructure Systems & Services >University of San Diego >5998 Alcala Park >Maher Hall Room 197 >San Diego, CA  92110-2492 >Phone      (619) 260.6868 >Fax           (619) 849.8383 >E-mail     [ mailto:burke@SanDiego.edu ]burke@SanDiego.edu > > > > >USD Technology Services will never ask for your password.   Please do >not share it with others! >Any email that does request this or other personal information is >fraudulent and you should delete it or mark it as Junk Mail and block the >sender. > > > > >"The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with >poison, drivel and misrepresentation." C. Northcote Parkinson ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ----=_--076bf595.076bf4af.cca5fcd9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <?xml version=3D=221.0=22 encoding=3D=22UTF-8=22?> <=21DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC =22-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN=22>

FInally took a look. Did some where things with the message but I got the gist.  Our biggest problem was exposing our Alertus server to the public which this would require and the fact that the mySQl they were using was about 100 years old.