Rapid Notify Assists Hunterdon County Dept of Public Safety With Community Registration Initiative

Jan. 13, 2011 - PRLog -- Rapid Notify, Inc. announced today that it has assisted in the implementation of a community registration initiative for longtime customer Hunterdon County, New Jersey.  

Through a new integrated online self-registration portal, Hunterdon County residents can now sign up to receive emergency alert notifications via landline or cellular telephone, SMS text message, or e-mail.  The Rapid Notify system enables Hunterdon County public safety agencies to contact over 130,000 area residents in the event of an extreme emergency situation.

“The Rapid Notify system provides us with the tools we need to communicate quickly and easily with our citizens,” said George Wagner, director of public safety for Hunterdon County.  “With the self-registration feature, we can further engage the community in our public safety efforts and educate the public in the importance of emergency notification.”

Hunterdon County is located on the western edge of New Jersey and encompasses 26 municipalities consisting of townships, cities, towns and boroughs in a 430 square mile area.
"We are extremely proud to help Hunterdon County effectively communicate life-saving information to its citizens," said Steve Sipe, president of Rapid Notify.  “Organizations with an ever-changing database of mass notification recipients such as municipalities, governments, and schools often have difficulty gathering and maintaining accurate contact data.  The Rapid Notify self-registration portal provides a powerful tool for accurate data collection that also addresses privacy concerns.”

Rapid Notify’s self-registration portal helps organizations ensure that their mass communications are privacy compliant by offering opt-in and opt-out capability.  Self-registrants complete a short online form with their contact information, indicate their preferences for notification, and select a secure login enabling them to return and update contact details as often as needed. The portal quickly plots address locations on a map and presents them to the registrant to verify or reposition the pin to the exact location of the address.  Confirmed addresses are geo-coded into the Rapid Notify mapping system, which enables organizations to target emergency and mass communications to individuals in specific physical locations.

“We have more than twenty years of experience and expertise in supporting the communications needs of local, state and federal agencies,” added Sipe. “Our self-registration feature is part of our continuing efforts to provide efficient public safety communications and a more connected environment for all types of organizations.”

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Rapid Notify, Inc. has been providing Mass Notification Services for emergency and non-emergency communications to clients across North America for more than 20 years. Rapid Notify provides a comprehensive suite of mass notification and management services ideal for government agencies, municipalities, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, first-responders and businesses. The easy-to-use, web-based emergency notification system enables effective, real-time, two-way communication via telephone, email and SMS text messaging. Rapid Notify offers reliable and cost-effective communication solutions to help people connect during a crisis, manage operational incidents and other communication activities. More information is available at http://www.rapidnotify.com or 800-519-2129.