Public Can Sign Up for Specific News About State’s Emergency
Operations
September 11, 2007—Denver—The Colorado Department
of Public Health and Environment has
announced a free, automated e-mail subscription service for
the general
public. This Web-based service allows subscribers to receive
timely
updates, at both an e-mail address and on a text-enabled
device, about
such topics as pandemic influenza and natural disasters.
“This is both a cost-effective and efficient solution for
improving
communications with our communities and helps us disseminate
information
faster than we’ve ever had the ability to do,” said Natalya
Verscheure, grant manager in the department’s Office of
Emergency
Preparedness and Response. “We want to do more than just
post
information on a Web page and hope people see it. Now we can
notify
people when the information they want and need is available
online.” This free service is accessible from the
department’s Web site at
www.cdphe.state.co.us/epr . At no charge, subscribers
may choose from several different categories
of information about the state’s emergency preparedness and
response
activities. Other topics include news and events, success
stories,
recent disease outbreaks and biological incidents, severe
weather and
more. Signing up for e-mail updates is free. Visitors to
the Web site can
click on the envelope icon, “Email Updates,” at the top
right of the
home page to subscribe. Subscribers can change the pages to
which they
subscribe or cancel the service at any time. This service
automatically monitors the Web site of the Office of
Emergency Preparedness and Response for content updates and
notifies
subscribers when updates are made to the Web site based on
the topic
choices they selected during registration. The distribution
of
emergency alerts on cell phones, pagers and other
text-enabled devices
also can be used for emergency communications or for
delivering other
time-sensitive news to subscribers. --30-- |
