Penn State Launches Text-Message Campus News Service

Authored by robert on August 16, 2006 - 5:39pm.

Leesburg, Va. - Penn State University on Wednesday announced the launch of a new wireless campus news service. The school partnered with Omnilert on PSUTXT, which will send text-messages of news and emergency information to subscribers' mobile phones using Omnilert's e2Campus Web-based communication system. "Text-messaging on cell phones has become the communications vehicle of choice for many students, so giving them the Penn State news they want through a text-messaging news service is the next logical step in the evolution of the Live/Newswire system," said Annemarie Mountz, assistant director of public information for Internet communications at Penn State.

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Text Messaging is Best for Emergencies

Submitted by Anthony Wayne (not verified) on April 18, 2007 - 10:16am.

Looking at the situation at Virginia Tech, the students and staff would have been far better served by a text message alert service. There is no doubt that schools and businesses need to have such a system in place in case of an emergency. Anthony Wayne Editor www.TextMessageBlog.mobi