Remember the time when the power went out, the phone system went offline? That happened once a month in my old San Antonio school district. Somehow, AT&T couldn’t get it’s stuff together. AT&T’s old equipment would often fail, leaving my school district offline at one campus or district-wide. Combine that with CPS power outages, I soon started longing for a communications app that we could use independent of POTS/VOIP. Learn more about my efforts here.

Recent events (e.g. hurricanes in Texas) forced me to take a fresh look at communication apps you may need in a pinch. I explore these in my TCEA Technotes blog entry, Communication Apps Districts Can’t Live Without.

 

It certainly is worth reading hand-in-hand with yesterday’s disaster recovery blog entry.