Email is a Critical Communication Tool for Emergency Preparedness and Response
In an emergency you must reach your stakeholders by any and all means necessary. Email is the number one use of the Internet This channel will play a critical role in your emergency communication plan and strategy, as using email ensures immediate delivery of critical information to citizens.
While phone and text messaging are important channels during an emergency, email is unrivaled as a means through which you can deliver detailed instructions to a broad audience during both the preparedness and response phases.
Go here to learn more about using email for Emergency planning and preparedness, and to view Emergency Communication Case Studies (CDC,FBI,FEMA and more...).
Trusted Class Email Lets Citizens Confirm Legitimacy
Goodmail Systems, Inc., provider of the CertifiedEmail class of trusted email, and GovDelivery announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), along with 150 other federal, state, and local government entities are now sending CertifiedEmail in citizen communications.
Now accepted at seven of the top ten U.S. mailbox providers, Goodmail's CertifiedEmail is a trusted-class delivery option offered to qualifying, legitimate commercial, non-profit and government emailers for messages to existing customers and users who specifically opted-in to receive messages. Once accredited by Goodmail, these senders' emails are delivered with cryptographically secure tokens which participating mailbox providers detect. CertifiedEmail messages are labeled with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon in the email program, enabling recipients to immediately distinguish the authentic, legitimate email messages they want to receive from those of unknown authenticity or safety.
To read the full release on GoodmailSystems EmailCertification using GovDelivery, click here.
To contact your local GovDelivery representative to learn more, email info@govdelivery.com.
GovDelivery Success Story : City of Rochester, MN
Where do residents of Rochester, MN go to find out the latest eConcert updates? How do they find out about summer softball cancellations? For thousands of Rochester residents, the answer is...their inboxes!
Since the City of Rochester launched GovDelivery earlier this year, interested residents have received more than 16,000 email updates on a wide variety of topics including: Mayo Civic Center Events, Current Council Agendas, Construction Bids, Home Page News & Announcements, and Public Transporations News. Subscribers are immediately notified as soon as any of these topics are updated on the City of Rochester website.
Since launching GovDelivery in January of 2007, the City of Rochester has:
- Sent more than 16,000 emails
- Signed up more than 2,100 subscribers
- Experienced a 22.7% click-through rate, resulting in over 3,800 additional hits to the City's website.
- Realized a 9% increase in total subscribers in the month of June 2007
GovDelivery Client Spotlight :
Douglas County, CO
The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners issued a directive to improve public access to and receipt of information. The County recently announced the launch of the GovDelivery Subscription service to include emergency management alerts on cell phones, pagers, and other text-enabled devices.
Subscribers are offered more than 70 different subscription categories from all County departments. The automated subscription service is accessible from both the Douglas County Government and Douglas County Sheriff's Office web site (www.dcsheriff.net).
Read the full press release.
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