No experience with sendwordnow.com but at work we use a service that appears to be similar based on the MIR3 platform (http://mir3.com). It was purchased initially for safety, then the IT org got in on the action.
I don't know how it compares but, while it does have wrinkles, I think it's very useful. We use it for sending info about both planned and unplanned data center or service events. And I have used it a fair amount to notify different groups of people that it's their turn to test stuff during off-hours network/firewall maintenance that required extensive coordinated testing. My favorite bit was when I was feeling awful leading up to an outage I was responsible for coordinating: I preloaded all the notification messages, recipient groups, scheduled the initial announcement, and then sent very simple instructions to my backup on when/how to easily pull the trigger on those notifications. Sendwordnow's client list is indeed impressive. I'll nudge our folks to give it a look, thanks. Matt On Nov 29, 2012, at 8:12 PM, unix_fan <[email protected]> wrote: Anybody using sendwordnow.com for emergency/urgent notification purposes (such as incident response or disaster recovery program components)? They appear to have a solid offering and an impressive client list (Google, DoD, Northrup Grumman, local law enforcement, etc). I'm interested in your thoughts if you are a (dis)satisfied customer. While the core use is for incident response, i believe there are numerous nontraditional uses for their messaging product beyond that core incident response mission. Thanks in advance for your $0.02 or possibly $0.03 on them. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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