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geebsHalfway through s1 Doctor Who. When I was growing up, my dad used to watch it on PBS, and it looked pretty silly to me. But the new series is actually pretty cool. I don't know if I prefer the ninth doctor (Christopher Eccelston) or tenth doctor (David Tennant). Who's considered better anyways? But I do prefer Rose over Martha.
Anyways, coming into work today, it was on the news again. And they were doing a story on th VT shooter, all hindsight and "why didn't they do a better job of warning people?" And that had me wondering, do the students and faculty feel that way, or is it just the media and parents?
I only ask because here at GT, we recently added that new emergency communication system that will warn people via e-mail, phone, and sms in the event of an emergency. Well, everyone will get the e-mail notification, but you have to opt in for the phone and sms messaging. Of course, it seems to me people would be hesitant to give out the latter, I guess worried that info might get in the hands of telemarketers or something. Or mebbe they're worried they'll get spammed with non-emergency messages, even though only a select few have access to send messages, and we would never do that.
I suppose all these college campuses implementing similar systems might be a knee jerk reaction to an incident, that while tragic, is actually a pretty rare occurrence. I signed up for the service as it seemed kinda hypocritical not to, given it would be my job to send out such warnings. But as I said above, given the rarity of actual emergencies that would warrant such an alert, do people feel its not worth the risk or the bother to hand out their personal information? I know the percentage signed up right now, so I'm curious if that number will change given its only been a couple of weeks since the system was brought online and people may not be aware of it yet. Or will it stay the same, and the majority of people don't actually want that level of warning?
I'm honestly curious- if something bad happens, we'll warn people via e-mail, (and phone and text for those signed up for such things), and send a warning over the cable system, and they have a loud speaker system across campus currently being set up (or it already may be online). Is that enough? Too much? I won't ask not enough, because what other way is left to warn people? If you don't reach them by phone or e-mail, they're not watching the telly, and somehow miss the loud voice warning of an emergency blaring across campus, what else can you do? But I digress. With the news filtering out through e-mail(our wireless internet coverage across campus is pretty good, and incoming freshmen have been required to have computers for years now, and laptops seem to be getting to be a more popular choice over a traditional desktop, so e-mail seems to be a viable emergency warning system even for those "out and about"), tv, and over the air, do people feel that's enough, and word of mouth will bring the warning to them without having to be bothered on their mobile? Or is warning people on their cells and pdas still a wise thing to do?
Anyways, coming into work today, it was on the news again. And they were doing a story on th VT shooter, all hindsight and "why didn't they do a better job of warning people?" And that had me wondering, do the students and faculty feel that way, or is it just the media and parents?
I only ask because here at GT, we recently added that new emergency communication system that will warn people via e-mail, phone, and sms in the event of an emergency. Well, everyone will get the e-mail notification, but you have to opt in for the phone and sms messaging. Of course, it seems to me people would be hesitant to give out the latter, I guess worried that info might get in the hands of telemarketers or something. Or mebbe they're worried they'll get spammed with non-emergency messages, even though only a select few have access to send messages, and we would never do that.
I suppose all these college campuses implementing similar systems might be a knee jerk reaction to an incident, that while tragic, is actually a pretty rare occurrence. I signed up for the service as it seemed kinda hypocritical not to, given it would be my job to send out such warnings. But as I said above, given the rarity of actual emergencies that would warrant such an alert, do people feel its not worth the risk or the bother to hand out their personal information? I know the percentage signed up right now, so I'm curious if that number will change given its only been a couple of weeks since the system was brought online and people may not be aware of it yet. Or will it stay the same, and the majority of people don't actually want that level of warning?
I'm honestly curious- if something bad happens, we'll warn people via e-mail, (and phone and text for those signed up for such things), and send a warning over the cable system, and they have a loud speaker system across campus currently being set up (or it already may be online). Is that enough? Too much? I won't ask not enough, because what other way is left to warn people? If you don't reach them by phone or e-mail, they're not watching the telly, and somehow miss the loud voice warning of an emergency blaring across campus, what else can you do? But I digress. With the news filtering out through e-mail(our wireless internet coverage across campus is pretty good, and incoming freshmen have been required to have computers for years now, and laptops seem to be getting to be a more popular choice over a traditional desktop, so e-mail seems to be a viable emergency warning system even for those "out and about"), tv, and over the air, do people feel that's enough, and word of mouth will bring the warning to them without having to be bothered on their mobile? Or is warning people on their cells and pdas still a wise thing to do?
