Gold Mobile and Calumet Communications Partner to Provide Comprehensive Crisis Management Solution

Sept. 22, 2009 - PRLog -- Calumet Communications, a leading crisis public relations firm and Gold Mobile, an innovator of cutting-edge mobile alert systems, have developed a comprehensive infrastructure solution for real-time 24/7 management of operational crises for the oil, gas and chemical industries.

The Crisis Alert Management System (CAMS™) enables companies to meet all their internal and external communication requirements speedily and appropriately.  CAMS™ delivers real-time alerts throughout the affected organization to employees and outside contractors.  It dependably notifies government agencies, elected officials, news media and community residents as needed -- either through text, email, voice and or PC alerts.  

CAMS also provides contingency planning & evaluation, crisis team training and crisis drill communications support.

”Having a reliable system in place to manage an operations crisis and communicate with external audiences is central to the successful management of any challenging event,” said John Mullane, president of Calumet Communications.  “Once a crisis strikes, quick, spot-on information is a critical to both resolving the operational crisis and protecting the company from unfair criticism and law suits.”

“A crisis is not the time to lose contact with key staff, and government contacts,”
said Alan Stern, Chief Marketing Officer of Gold Mobile.  “The CAMS mobile alert system will function reliably when telephones and other systems fail.  Even under hurricane conditions and other extraordinary, disruptive events, CAMS mobile messages get through.”

The CAMS™ system utilizes the same technology as the Gold Mobile Rapid Notification Alert System™ recently implemented by Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA) to help them manage employee notification throughout their offices in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The Gold Mobile Rapid Notification Alert System™ allows SCOA to manage office closings, city alerts, commuter alerts, weather alerts, and IT problems for their 18 offices in North America.

“Our challenge was how to notify employees, outside of our corporate firewall, at all 18 of our North American locations of important facility and technology-related alerts in a timely manner,” noted Jewelle Yamada, Sumitomo VP of Corporate Communications, “ Our new emergency alerts are very effective and easy to setup --we are very pleased with the system."  

Gold Mobile innovative alert systems are designed specifically to allow facilities, operations, and corporate communications professionals to manage internal and external communications and crises management by alerting the people who need to know – when, where and how they need to be reached. Subscribers can be notified via text (SMS), email, PC and voice alerts. The system works with all major wireless carriers in the U.S. and over 500 service providers worldwide. It is offered by Calumet Communications as a complete turnkey Crises Management Solution with no software or hardware to install or manage.

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About Calumet Communications
Calumet Communications is a public relations consulting firm with extensive experience in issues management crisis communications. In addition to crisis planning and media training, Calumet staff has worked closely with oil, gas, pipeline, and chemical companies confronting serious operational issues. For more information, visit: www.calumetcg.com

About Gold Mobile
Gold Mobile is a leading innovator of mobile enterprise solutions for the security, healthcare, hospitality and consumer product markets. Gold Mobile provides a high performance enterprise-grade mobile platform supported by a suite of customizable mobile software tools, applications and world-class services for rapid crisis communications and alerts, marketing, m-commerce and Customer Relationship Management. For more information visit: www.gold-mobile.com