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by jbcurio

Communications In A Emergency Situation

In the time of crises we often lose control over our thought process and become nervous. Such traumatic emergency situations or conditions need to be handled with proper care and intelligence. Your safety should always be the top priority in any case because unless you are safe you cannot provide help to others. Safety is always the top priority and emergency communications is the basic element to this safety. It requires a lot of courage on the part of the victim to wake up and take charge after the devastating damage that comes with a natural or man-made disaster.

It has also been witnessed that after a massive earthquake, a devastating flood or a harrowing tsunami, that the existing communications system may not be available. The cause may be either due to physical damage or system overload. Consequently, the entire communication suddenly stalls with the damage of telephone wires, damage of cellular phone towers and antennas losing power. Even the government system fails in meeting the large scale damage control and the demands of the civilians affected. This is the time for any voluntary or non voluntary organization to respond quickly in the event of an emergency. There are many organizations that have developed emergency communication plans to carry out the communications and operations offering rapid response during a crisis. The communication devices that can be used during a crisis:

Amateur Radio: In time of a natural disaster an amateur radio is often used as an important medium of emergency communication. An amateur radio is especially helpful when wire phone, cell phones and other communication mediums fail to respond. Unlike other communication devices, the amateur radio is not completely dependent on land facilities. Amateur radio operators are experienced in using the device. It can easily be powered with an automobile battery.

AM /FM Solar Dynamo Radio with Flashlight: An AM/FM Solar Dynamo Radio with flashlights is also used as an emergency communication device. The radio with its flashlights converts the solar energy for rechargeable lanterns, blinking lights and an AM/FM Radio for indoor and outdoor activities. These radio types are especially great for power failures.

AM/FM Radio (TRANSISTOR) With Speaker: These radio transistors can best be used to give access to emergency news and warnings. The compact radio keeps one updated on warnings and emergencies even during power failures. These radio transistors are generally available with head sets and carry straps.

Brass Whistle with Lanyard: This brass whistle includes a lanyard and is a great attention catching device. The device is especially compact and affordable. There’s a special method of using the device – to indicate a call for help three sharp bursts are used and to answer a call, only two bursts are used.

Some other important communication devices that can be used during a crisis include, AM/FM Radio Siren Flashlights, Bull Horn, Walkie Talkies, Weather Band w/Dynamo Charging System, Lifeline Emergency Kit w/Phone, Solar Dynamo Radios along with Flashlights Models, Megaphone, some with Sirens, Pocket Compass, Solar AM/FM Shortwave Radio, and shack flashlights.

Emergency communications are important during any crisis or emergency. Since being prepared and informed is always vital, people need to be updated at all times. A successful communication plan and proper emergency supplies is the best possible means to stop overwhelming damage from large-scale disasters.

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by lostinmiami

Analyzing Your Communications Live

You’ve just reviewed the final results of your last pro-active media campaign to launch that new product or service. The numbers look pretty good: media impressions were in the millions; coverage was evenly split between broadcast and print; and a leading national paper ran three stories on the launch-pretty impressive. But could it have been better?

Analyze this
Analyzing issues or campaigns is the first big step in truly understanding any communications success or failure. With busy schedules and/or tight client budgets, more often than not, media analysis isn’t always carried out. A big investment is being made on gathering the media content, but not on measuring and analyzing the trends, successes, and areas for improvement. Stories are often filed away immediately or distributed to a limited group, never to be looked at again or analyzed at all.

If you’re already conducting ongoing media analysis half the battle is won. But if not, you can bet your client or director will demand it soon. New analysis technologies combined with increased expectations to determine communications ROI (Return on Investment) are making analysis a must, not a should.

Once you’ve determined the need or importance of analysis, what’s next? This is where the confusion can set in. As can be expected, everyone has their own definition of how media content should be analyzed based on their own experiences. And usually the issue of PR standards and formulas arise…and that is when things often can come to a stand-still.

But before you get into how you are going to analyze, you must first determine what you’re interested in analyzing. Here are a few considerations:

Track success in key publications and mediums based on demographic suitability
Evaluate key message penetration in media stories
Track quality – not just quantity – of coverage
Determine success vs. competitors
Success of spokesperson pick-up
Determine campaign ROI
Measure advertising equivalency (if you must!)
Monitor regional penetration comparisons
Tabulate media impressions/audience numbers
Compare key issues and/or product penetration
Resulting editorial or other media commentary/letters to the editor

There are endless ways of analyzing and cross-referencing the information. But you should note that you can accomplish all of the above considerations without getting into confusing PR multipliers or complex formulas. The key is to determine what you’re interested in evaluating and create benchmarks for future comparisons. And if you still want to add in PR multipliers you can, as long as you consistently keep to the same formula. So whether you’re multiplying by a factor of 3, 5, or 10, the coverage is always being evaluated in a consistent fashion and can therefore be viewed as an unbiased and accurate portrayal.

Go Electronic, Go Real-Time
Reviewing the success of a new product launch, the impact of a crisis on your organization, or a monthly comparison after-the-fact can provide valuable insight for future planning. But imagine the change you could make if you have real-time data available to you at your fingertips in an instant. Using real-time data you could monitor:

What regions are having the most success and which need attention
Misinformation being published so you can correct it
Which publications need another follow-up call
Which issues are getting the most attention
The quality and tone of the coverage
The impact on your organization
What tactics are working and which aren’t
How you can piggy-back on recent media trends or competitors’ tactics or success

The benefits of real-time analysis are endless and important. Knowing that you can have a timely affect on the final outcome of a new product launch is empowering and helps speak to the real power of PR.

A combination of real-time analysis and benchmarking will provide you with the tools to improve the results of a campaign mid-stream and properly analyze its success using a predetermined set of objectives and consistent criteria. So make 2005 the year you start benchmarking your analysis-an opportunity to learn more about the impact your communications strategies are having will pay dividends for years to come.

by ChiaLynn

Himfr.com reports Security and communications will be the future of automotive electronics industry

First, the growth point is moving from Asia through Europe and the United States markets to developing country-driven regional markets shift. Data show that in 2007 ~ 2012 in Asia and Europe will dominate the global vehicle production 89%, BRICs and other Asian countries will become the main force in automobile consumption. Second, in the market mature European and American countries, the improvement of performance of motor vehicles more dependent on electronic technology. All these will inevitably affect the direction of the development of automotive electronics.

The next 10 years, electronic technology in the automobile industry plays a little role, how should it assume the important task of automotive electronic technology?

Environmental protection
A major development in the global automotive industry, the trend is to favor the development of fuel-efficient, low-carbon emissions from the engine. There are many options. The first is an advanced diesel engines and electronic control systems, highway driving, its fuel economy than gasoline engines by 30% ~ 40%. The second is the electric power system or a hybrid electric vehicle (HEVs). The power system’s innovative technology will be in the next 5 to 15 years for the world’s car a large amount of electronic content.

Security
Can guarantee that driving the market for more secure technologies and products have huge demand. We have passive safety technology has made significant progress – that is, a collision in the car when the driver and passenger protection technology and products, such as collision sensors, airbags, seat belts, servo steering structure and the metal plate collision zone and other products and technologies have been in the car crash accident saved many lives and reduce staff injuries. The latest development is a proactive security, through the use of radar, optical and ultrasonic sensors and other technologies, measuring the distance between cars and the surrounding objects and near objects speed.

Connected Newsletter
Automotive electronics trends in the development of the third-largest automotive communications connectivity. Now, consumers want their cars and trucks have the same technology and communication facilities, to make the driving process more efficient, convenient and fun. GPS navigation, telematics services (embedded mobile phones and other two-way wireless links caused by automatic telecommunications), satellite radio, and rear-seat television, and other products and technologies, is going with the best example of this trend.

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New Delhi:     

Approach Healthcare  Communications ( www.approachcom.com ) , specialized vertical of  India’s leading public relations and marketing communications firm, Approach Communications will be offering expertise based PR, Media, Healthcare Awareness, Medical Writing, Image Management,  Marketing, Branding, Communications,  Digital Marketing, Integrated Marketing  Communications and other related  services to Hospitals, Doctors and other healthcare organizations.

 

As hospital marketing and communications is a different from other brand and product marketing, the agency has already empanelled professionals from the healthcare industry to offer integrated and knowledge based services to the fast growing sector. Approach Communications expertise in Hospital PR and Marketing services will be a boon for the healthcare, hospital, doctors and other organization who find it difficult to market their services because of the know-how and other constraints. Approach Communications will offer all the marketing, pr and communications services under one roof to hospitals, retail chains, medical devices companies, hospital chains, healthcare facilities, doctors, healthcare professionals and other related sectors.

 

The fast growing Healthcare Communications and Marketing Agency is also planning to get into HR Consultancy business through its strategic cell which will be looking after the growing need of specialized HR services in Healthcare business. Approach Healthcare is a full-service public relations and marketing communications agency serving the market segment that develops and sells products and services in the healthcare industry. The recently launched division has already some pharma, healthcare, medical devices, hospitals, doctors and other healthcare professionals in its kitty.

 

 

Approach Communications is based in New Delhi and already having offices in cities of  like Mumbai, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Indore, Ranchi, Dehradun and representatives in all the major cities and towns of India. Approach healthcare Communications is helping healthcare and pharma companies build brand awareness, establish industry expertise, increase sales and improve client retention through strategic, integrated PR and marketing communications services.Approach Healthcare is offering total Media and marketing communications solutions to Pharma, OTC, Herbal, Healthcare and Cosmetics companies in India.

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Commenting on the new division, Sonu Tyagi, Director of Approach Communications said “as we have been working with healthcare and pharma industry and seeing the growth in healthcare and hospitals segment, we thought that we should tap the potential available in an organized way. We are already working for corporate clients under Approach Communications brand. Approach Healthcare is a specialized division for healthcare communications and pr services and specialized vertical for hospital PR and marketing is the extension of services in that direction.”

 

 

Approach Communications, which is just in 4 year of operations; have already handled leading companies, entertainment and social sector clients. The agency is present in 5 cities of India with its headquarters in Delhi. Agency has handled accounts like Rathi Thermax, U.S.Writopia,  SOS Children’s Villages of India, Aaliya Productions, Greentech Foundation, General Motors,{ Regional}, Sutlej Motors Ltd, Malaysian Promotion Council, Handicapped Care Foundation, FMCG International , Jhankar Television, JMD Group among others.

 

Agency is very excited about future prospects and soon entering in publications in a big way. Agency has already carved a niche in strategic rural communications services and pitching for new clients are already on. Agency has worked across industries like FMCG, Healthcare, Lifestyle, Entertainment and Films. Approach Communications has full fledged operations in Celebrity Management and Below the Line Promotions services as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary

Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. (ACS) is a telecommunication service company. It is principally engaged in the provision of broadband and other wire-line and wireless telecom solutions to enterprise and mass market customers. It offers a range of services including, local telephone, wireless, broadband, local exchange services, network access and communications products and services. The company is operating through two business segments, namely, Wireline and Wireless. The Wireline segment provides communication services to consumers, carriers, enterprises and government customers.

Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc – Financial Analysis Review is an in-depth business, financial analysis of Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc. The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company, including business structure and operations, executive biographies and key competitors. The hallmark of the report is the detailed financial ratios of the company

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AvilA Solutions announced the general availability of Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Release 7.4. This latest release helps communications service providers, media companies and other service providers enhance customer service, respond faster to market demands and reduce operational costs. AvilA Solutions Communications Billing and Revenue Management Release 7.4 helps improve customer management capabilities; offer expanded pricing, billing and invoicing functionality; and enhance data accessibility to help the customer service representative (CSR) deliver better service. The new release supports AvilA Solutions Application Integration Architecture for Communications, delivering to service providers using Oracle’s Siebel CRM new capabilities for managing high-value offers and streamlining collections processes. New out-of-the-box integrations with AvilA Solutions Business Intelligence Publisher, Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper and Oracle Enterprise Manager for increased flexibility and lower total cost of ownership are also available in this release. The software also enhances overall performance and expands support for current technology standards, including Transferred Account Procedure (TAP), Returned Account Procedure (RAP), Diameter, Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Consistent with its goal to continuously simplify the upgrade process, AvilA Solutions provides new upgrade scripts for customers to help reduce the time, effort and cost associated with upgrading to the new release.

AvilA Solutions

AVILA Software Solutions is a Software Developing and Information Management organization providing most talented staffing solutions and services with offices at Nashua-NH. AVILA is well
known in application maintenance and development outsourcing in the Financial services, Retail and Distribution, Manufacturing, Telecommunications and High-tech industries. Founded in 2007.

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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural approach that enables IT to integrate, interoperate, and manage software, data, and processes across all types of applications. Resources in an SOA environment are made available as independent services that can be accessed without the knowledge of underlying platform implementation. With this approach, new applications can be built from existing functionality to support the requirements of software users, and services can be assembled and reassembled quickly to create new applications to meet business needs.

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) today are facing several challenges such as increasing competition from Internet service providers, proliferation of convergent services and increased costs due duplication of application silos and other resources. In addition, increasing customer demand for new flexible services, regulatory compliance and the need for increased security is driving telecom organizations to adopt SOA to enable faster creation of new services without sacrificing the uptime of the underlying network. Further, CSPs are beginning to adopt SOA infrastructure to introduce IT governance with their IT environment and enable sharing of underlying applications and resources as ‘services’ with other service providers, and hence reduce costs and the time-to-market new services.

The report forecasts the size of SOA Infrastructure Market in Communications Industry over the period 2008-2012. It segments the market by SOA sub-segments technologies and into various geographic regions. Further, it discusses the key market trends, drivers and challenges of the SOA market in the Communications Industry.

Table of Contents:
1. Market Size & Forecast
2. Market Trends
3. Segmentation by SOA Sub-segments Infrastructure Technologies
4. Geographic Segmentation
5. Market Drivers
5.1 Operator Drivers
5.2 Vendor Drivers
6. Challenges
Other Reports in this Series

List of Exhibits
Exhibit 1.1: Communications SOA Infrastructure – Market Size and Forecast 2008-2012 (In $ million)
Exhibit 3.1: Segmentation by SOA Sub-segments Technologies – 2008
Exhibit 4.1: Communications SOA Infrastructure Market Segmentation by Geography – 2008

To know more about this report, please visit:
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Common Sense Career Advice

Communications must be a two-way street–sending messages and receiving messages–if it is to be effective.

That’s just common sense; but it is too often ignored, as organizations and individuals spend millions of dollars and countless hours annually on sending messages and make little focused effort on improving listening skills.    

Managements are so busy unleashing a torrent of communications that they don’t take the time to listen to see if the messages are being received, to say nothing of being understood.

Meanwhile, a lot of lip service is devoted to listening, while many career coaches rank listening as the number one job skill.

We are apt to think we are listening when we are just waiting our turn to speak and concocting responses to what is being said. As a result, 75 to 80 percent of our verbal communications is distorted by our own filters.

Waiting to speak is not necessarily listening.

“The major reason why most people are poor listeners is they so busy mentally planning a rebuttal that they miss the other person’s true message,” according to Connie Dieken, president of OnPoint Communications in Cleveland, Ohio.

Another reason for breakdowns in communications is that listeners’ minds function at a faster speed than speakers can talk.

Ms. Dieken advocates “staying” in the moment “to prevent racing ahead and other mental tasks.”

Listening is not an easy task. It requires time, patience, energy and focus. It’s an art that has be nurtured and practiced just like we would a speech,” says Barbara Brannen, CEO of a Littleton, Colorado consultancy.

In addition to “staying in the moment”, listening skills include: blocking out distraction and interruptions, maintaining eye contact, asking relevant questions and taking notes.   

Career Tip: Silence, A Powerful Communications Tool

One of the hardest lessons any aggressive and ambitious person needs to master on the career path is that silence can be a powerful tool of communications. The traits required to make it to the top drive one to have strong opinions and to want to express them. However, there are many times when it is better to sit back and let others do the talking.

Think it through. It is not your responsibility to fill every vacuum of silence with noise. Let others speak. They may have something important to say. If they don’t and still speak, they may reveal their foolishness and you will look smarter.

Any good career counselor will say it’s better to have them wonder why you didn’t speak than why you did.

Effective communications skills are an essential for career success.

Common Sense Career Advice

Communications must be a two-way street–sending messages and receiving messages–if it is to be effective.

That’s just common sense; but it is too often ignored, as organizations and individuals spend millions of dollars and countless hours annually on sending messages and make little focused effort on improving listening skills.    

Managements are so busy unleashing a torrent of communications that they don’t take the time to listen to see if the messages are being received, to say nothing of being understood.

Meanwhile, a lot of lip service is devoted to listening, while many career coaches rank listening as the number one job skill.

We are apt to think we are listening when we are just waiting our turn to speak and concocting responses to what is being said. As a result, 75 to 80 percent of our verbal communications is distorted by our own filters.

Waiting to speak is not necessarily listening.

“The major reason why most people are poor listeners is they so busy mentally planning a rebuttal that they miss the other person’s true message,” according to Connie Dieken, president of OnPoint Communications in Cleveland, Ohio.

Another reason for breakdowns in communications is that listeners’ minds function at a faster speed than speakers can talk.

Ms. Dieken advocates “staying” in the moment “to prevent racing ahead and other mental tasks.”

Listening is not an easy task. It requires time, patience, energy and focus. It’s an art that has be nurtured and practiced just like we would a speech,” says Barbara Brannen, CEO of a Littleton, Colorado consultancy.

In addition to “staying in the moment”, listening skills include: blocking out distraction and interruptions, maintaining eye contact, asking relevant questions and taking notes.   

Career Tip: Silence, A Powerful Communications Tool

One of the hardest lessons any aggressive and ambitious person needs to master on the career path is that silence can be a powerful tool of communications. The traits required to make it to the top drive one to have strong opinions and to want to express them. However, there are many times when it is better to sit back and let others do the talking.

Think it through. It is not your responsibility to fill every vacuum of silence with noise. Let others speak. They may have something important to say. If they don’t and still speak, they may reveal their foolishness and you will look smarter.

Any good career counselor will say it’s better to have them wonder why you didn’t speak than why you did.

Effective communications skills are an essential for career success.

Communication services are the hub of any business. You and your business partners, and co-workers, need to be able to stay in touch with each other. One of the best, and most cost-effective options, can be to lease two-way alpha-numeric pagers. Two way alpha numeric pagers have the availability of nationwide paging and the bonus of lower costs to your business than a cell phone plan.

By leasing your pagers you are able to have 24/7 support and replacement options. This allows you to be rest assured that even though your employees may not take the best care of your pagers, the pagers are covered and can be replaced in the event of unintentional damage. Also, by choosing to lease your pagers rather than buy them outright, you are able to upgrade when new models come onto the marketplace.

One of the best two way pagers on the market today is a two way alphanumeric pager with nationwide two way paging and internet capabilities. It is small and easy to use with its full QWERTY keyboard.

With these types of two-way pagers, you can send and receive internet e-mail virtually anytime, anywhere. With nationwide coverage, a local telephone number (or an 800 number), and an internet e-mail address, the two way pager provides a low-cost framework for creating a dynamic, online community that goes where you go. You will be able to connect to the internet to check weather, sports scores and news from anywhere in the United States.

If you own a small business and would like the option of having your own secretary without the hassle of hiring one, you can use an operator dispatch service to handle your calls. It is a cheaper option than a traditional answering service. It allows your customers to call your dispatcher, and they will page you with the message your caller gives to them. This service generally runs below $20.00 a month and can be a much more cost effective option than hiring your own staff or using a traditional answering service which will easily cost your business twice that amount per month.

Another option available with many two way pagers is voice mail. This gives your callers the option of either paging you or leaving you a voice mail message you can call in and listen to.

This advanced two-way pager is available for about $200 new or under $60 for a refurbished model. They can be leased for an even better price and with less risk to your business if they are damaged by your employees. Nationwide two way paging plans generally start at about $15 per month and go up from there depending on how many messages you require per month.

Two way alpha numeric pagers can be a perfect alternative to a cell phone when you need to keep in touch but do not need the abilities afforded to you by a cell phone. By leasing your two way pagers you can help to save your business money and also insure you can upgrade to the latest models when they are released into the marketplace.