Congratulations to our home town of Minneapolis-St. Paul!! Today the AP reported that only 6 US cities excelled in crisis communications - and the Twin Cities is one of them. You can read some great coverage of the report on the emergency.com blog.
At MissionMode, we like to think we have a little something to do with the success of the Twin Cities in this arena. All 29 hospitals are customers of ours, as well as all local public health organizations in the seven county metro area, MN-ISAC (an organization of business, government and emergency preparedness organizations) is also a customer in addition to some of the largest corporations (Best Buy, Wells Fargo, Target, 3M, Fairview Health Systems and Xcel Energy). All using MissionMode for crisis communications.
In addition, we have exposed MissionMode to a wide variety of other businesses and state, city, county EMS coordinators through the Snowball exercises; in the deployment of medical personnel to the New Orleans area in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath; and in Symposiums held in the Twin Cities area. Out own Len Meger has also been very involved in over a half dozen organizations dealing with emergency response, not only promoting MissionMode, but being a champion for emergency preparedness in the area we live and work in.
