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One Customer's Solution for Weathering the Storm

It's quiet at the Ingeniux office in Seattle today. The city is currently in the grip of a snowstorm. 4.2 inches have accumulated thus far. No, not 42 inches - 4.2 inches of snow. The city has practically shut down. Many employees couldn't make it into work today.

For many of our customers, this is a bit of a joke. Portage College, a customer in northern Canada that is currently weathering -50F, loved this picture of Ingeniux employees in the snow.

Customers in our neck of the woods, however, know how debilitating the accumulation of snow can be in the Pacific Northwest. And having a way to communicate weather-related announcements is essential.

Seattle Public Library is a valuable resource for Seattleites. With 27 branches throughout the city, the library is a large organization with a full schedule of events and meetings each week. To communicate cancellations and branch closures during this winter storm they have enabled the Ingeniux Alerts Module to post notifications on their website. This tool allows the library's CMS site administrator to instantaneously create and post messages to the website, delivering information to library patrons city-wide.

The Ingeniux CMS Alerts module is ideal for weather-related announcements, but it can be enabled any time an organization needs to deliver a message quickly and to a large audience. Emergency procedures and updates, power outages, event cancellations, and construction updates, are a few examples of how Ingeniux customers have utilized the Alerts Module. It is just one more tool the CMS delivers to help our customers manage the web with ease.

To learn more about this valuable module download a recording of our recent Web Alerts and Emergency Failover webinar with CMS administrators from Holyoke Community College and Quinnipiac University discussing their experience with, and their use cases for, the Alerts Module.

While we weather the storm in Seattle our thoughts go out to those customers that endure more severe winters, and we wish our customers in the Northwest and safe and happy snow day!

Posted by Julie Pederson