Send Word Now Wins DRI International’s “2013 Notification System of the Year” Award

Oct. 15, 2013 - PRLog -- New York, NY, October 13, 2013 -- Send Word Now, the leading worldwide provider of emergency notification services, announced today it was awarded “2013 Notification System of the Year” honors by DRI International (formerly Disaster Recovery Institute).

The award was presented at last week’s DRI International Conference during the organization’s Awards of Excellence Gala. Send Word Now was selected in a blind evaluation process by a panel of senior business continuity professionals serving as independent judges.

According to DRI International, the award was given to the company “whose system has done the most for companies of all sizes to improve their crisis communications, whether servicing the public or private sector.” The judges also sought to award the company that “incorporated into the product best practice within the field of business continuity management.”

“Send Word Now is honored to have been selected for this prestigious award,” said Lorin Bristow, Senior Vice President of Marketing. “DRI is respected internationally for its promotion of best practices in business continuity and disaster recovery. We greatly appreciate the recognition of our notification system as the top in the industry by this esteemed professional organization.”

About Send Word Now

Headquartered in New York City, Send Word Now is the leading provider of on-demand alerting for crisis communication. The company’s easy-to-use, web-based emergency notification solutions and mobile applications are used by businesses, government agencies, universities, and non-profit organizations to ensure fast, effective, two-way communications when it is needed the most.

Send Word Now's enterprise-class notification system is capable of transmitting hundreds of thousands of voice and text messages in minutes while providing a full audit trail for after-action reporting and follow-up. It is designed to reach anyone, anywhere, anytime, with any device over any type of connection.

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