Education Community Turns to JANETtxt to Overcome Postal Strikes |
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PageOne Communications
2 Brentside Executive Centre
Brentford, United Kingdom
Press release date: October 18, 2007
London 18th October 2007 - JANETtxt delivered by PageOne, the UK's leading provider of wireless messaging solutions, on behalf of JANET(UK) has been chosen by the Student Services Department at Blackburn College to instantly communicate important information, such as loan payments and administrative notifications, to their students. The college has found JANETtxt messaging service particularly useful this month with the postal strikes causing huge backlogs in communication.
With threats of more postal strikes over the coming months, educational communities have been encouraged to find an innovative approach to effectively communicate with their students. Blackburn College have been particularly impressed by the vast amount of ways they have been able to integrate the JANET txt messaging system within the college. Not only is it useful for loan payments, but can also be used for administrative notifications such as lecture changes or exam results, mentoring special needs students, business continuity such as emergency planning, questions to tutors and for marketing events.
"Text messaging is an excellent way of communicating with our students," says Cecily Rogers, Information and Guidance Services Manager, Blackburn College. "Not only have we found it useful in a variety of different areas but we also quickly realised that sending a text message to students has heavily reduced the administration costs of sending out letters."
The JANETtxt messaging service delivered by PageOne on behalf of JANET(UK) is a comprehensive suite of secure one and two-way text messaging services and is specifically tailored to meet the requirements of the UK Education Community. Since its launch in May 2007, the service has grown to be a very successful communication tool amongst schools, colleges and universities and there are future plans to integrate the JANETtxt service with Moodle, an open source VLE. About PageOne. www.pageone.co.uk PageOne is the leading provider of award-winning wireless messaging solutions to the public and enterprise sectors. It has a proven track record of introducing innovative products and services and owns and operates a UK-wide paging network and provides business SMS messaging solutions; PageOne Paging and PageOne Connect respectively.
All PageOne systems are powered by the company's own flexible platform Oventus, developed to enable the seamless integration of mobile messaging across different networks and technologies. These services have consistently been designed to meet and exceed the demands of an increasingly mobile environment, providing reliable and cost effective communications to thousands of organisations across the government, NHS and major corporate sectors.
About JANET(UK): JANET(UK) manages the operation and development of JANET on behalf of JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) for the UK Further and Higher Education Funding Councils. JISC also works in partnership with the Research Councils. JANET(UK) is government funded, with the primary aim of providing and developing a network infrastructure that meets the needs of the education and research communities.
About JANET JANET is the network dedicated to the needs of education and research in the UK. It connects the UK's education and research organisations to each other, as well as to the rest of the world through links to the global Internet. In addition, JANET includes a separate network that is available to the community for experimental activities in networkdevelopment.
Trademarks
JANET' and JANET(UK)' are registered trademarks of the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and Wales. The JNT Association is the registered user of these trademarks.
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