[115688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sun Jul 5 09:04:43 2009
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:03:08 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <0D357934-85DE-4935-8F58-02F5FCC1DC8A@americafree.tv>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <0D357934-85DE-4935-8F58-02F5FCC1DC8A@americafree.tv>,
Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> writes
>I would say this partially would depend on how and what you want to
>communicate. If there is just going to be
>one pronouncement per day (the school is up / down / delayed), then
>facebook and / or myspace would suggest themselves.
There's going to be a handful a year. Such as "school closed today due
to snow". or "remember - school closed today for staff training" [a
curious British phenomenon].
>They are to date free, and the students will know what they are. I
>would start with facebook.
>
>If you look at the #AuthorizeNet situation, there was a lot of back and
>forth. Will the schools have a need for
>back and forth ?
No, if the school's closed, it's closed. No debate allowed.
>Note that this will take people answering questions / dealing with
>issues on twitter. Specifically, someone would have to pay attention
>to it during any quasi-emergency period - do the schools have such a
>person ?
Such a person could be designated.
>Also, if the school looses power in a storm,
Schools in urban areas here very rarely lose power in storms. All the
cables are underground. Of course, losing power would be another excuse
to close the school :)
>is there a backup means of getting to the Internet ?
A laptop with a 3g modem would suffice, or for Twitter someone with a
suitably configure mobile phone.
--
Roland Perry
