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Ohio School Boards Association Announces Leader Alert® Endorsement
Apr. 29, 2008
Ohio School Boards Association Endorses Leader Alert® for its 700 + member districts
The Ohio School Boards Association announced today its endorsement of Leader Alert, a health and safety alerting product, for the more than 700 Ohio public school districts that comprise its membership. Leader Alert, the creation of Leader Technologies of Columbus, Ohio, makes it possible for a school to quickly and simultaneously alert thousands of parents and staff by telephone, texting, and email in case of emergencies ranging from lurking predators to snow days.
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Leader Alert® Supports Shawnee State University Safety Lockdown
Feb. 7, 2008
Leader Alert® quickly notified over 3500 SSU students, faculty and staff
When the community of Portsmouth, Ohio learned on February 7th that a fifth-grade teacher at Notre Dame Elementary School had been attacked in the classroom in front of her horrified students, they did not know at first whether it was an isolated incident or part of a larger threat. But Portsmouth-based Shawnee State University was prepared. Their Emergency Response Team used Leader Alert® to issue an emergency message that was received within minutes by all 3549 students, faculty, and staff.
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- Leader supports suburban Cleveland middle school safety lockdown Apr. 27, 2007
Leader Alert® quickly notified 700 Parma City Schools parents, prevented panic
An April 18 lockdown at Greenbriar Middle School in
Parma, Ohio ended calmly when a 59-year old woman carrying a knife was quickly disarmed in the
school’s entrance airlock, police were called, and school officials used Leader Alert® to send a 40-second voice alert to the phones of 700 parents of students within
minutes of the incident, avoiding a school closure and allowing classes to continue.
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- Leader
assists Louisiana Governor's Office following Hurricane Katrina
Sept. 2, 2005
Leader Technologies responded to an urgent call Tuesday, Aug.
30, from Louisiana officials following Hurricane Katrina to provide
critical telecommunications services. LeaderPhone®
was deployed immediately, linking the governor with dozens of
federal, state and local disaster recovery officials, said Mike
McKibben, Chairman and founder of Leader...
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- Leader hosts
The Ohio Homeland Security Initiative at The Ohio State University.
Dec. 13, 2004
Leader helped bring together experts from government, academia
and industry into a think-tank forum. The forum focused on state
and local first responder "command and control" solutions
that can be implemented now to help overcome the lack of communications
and control that hinders disaster response and costs lives. Participating
companies and organizations included General Dynamics, Cardinal
Health, McDonald's, Sprint, Nextel, Bricker & Eckler, City of
Columbus Department of Public Safety, WOSU-TV, The Ohio State University,
Center for Strategic Management, Tibco, The National Registry of
Emergency Medical Technicians and a number of other core technology
providers.
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- LeaderPhone
chosen by State of Kansas as exclusive conference calling provider.
Nov. 24, 2004
The State of Kansas has signed a contract with LeaderPhone®
to provide audio conference calling services to all state agencies,
slashing the cost in half over the previous carrier.
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- State of
Wyoming chooses LeaderPhone conference calling services. May
10, 2004
The State of Wyoming has entered into contract with Leader
to expand its use of LeaderPhone Teleconferencing Services to 38
state agencies. More are planned. Jonathan Downing, Policy Analyst
for the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services says, “Our
employees and business partners have been very pleased with Leader’s
services. They have resulted in a significant cost savings for our
programs. At a time when we are faced with limited resources, Leader’s
advanced and on-demand technologies have assisted us with maintaining
a competitive edge in the provision of teleconferencing services
to a state covering 97,813 square miles.”
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- Vermont
announces LeaderPhone® as exclusive conferencing calling provider.
March 10, 2004
The State of Vermont has signed a contract with LeaderPhone®
to provide conference calling services to all 60 state agencies,
slashing the cost in half over the previous carrier.
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- Leader
awarded 2003 Tier I Ohio Award for Excellence May
23, 2003
Business First,
May 14, "Several Central Ohio businesses and organizations
have received Ohio Awards of Excellence. The awards, endorsed by
Gov. Bob Taft [and modeled after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award], recognize best practices..." Business First
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