2013 Annual Conference — October 6-9In Case of Emergency: Providing consistent multi-media communication during a crisis
Ballroom
Far too often we are confronted with unfortunate events and tragedies at schools around the nation. This year a student was shot and killed at Coastal Carolina University; a gunman was spotted on Manchester Community College campus; Lone Star College in Texas had a shooting injuring three people and then a stabbing a couple months later. In March of 2013, UCF found itself in the midst of such a crisis. How do you prepare for something like this? We cannot rely on local ‘Late Breaking’ TV news to distribute information and ensure the safety of our communities. Universities need to have an array of tools in place to notify people of what is going on…we need to leverage all communication media including website alerts, mobile texting, email, etc. and we need to be ready to use them. Groves and Burt will discuss how they prepared for alerting the UCF community during an emergency and what happened when they actually had to use the systems we had in place. They will also discuss building a web infrastructure that ensures the maximum uptime during extreme spikes in web traffic. Make it your duty to help protect the safety of students, faculty, staff, and the community by keeping them up-to-date during a crisis.
Presenters
Brandon Groves
Programmer, UCF
Brandon Groves is a programmer with seven years experience developing user-centered, data-driven web and stand-alone applications for Lockheed Martin and the University of Central Florida. If there is a process that needs improving, Groves will fight to the end to improve it (or just write an script to automate it).
Patrick Burt
Creative Director, UCF
Patrick Burt is the Creative Director for the University of Central Florida.
