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What is public information?
It’s information that’s relevant for a large part of society. Users decide for themselves what information they find pertinent from a list of different categories.
Public information is sent to all users, but only users who have chosen to get information about the category recieve it.
What’s special about public information?
Users are in control
Users customize their own filter by choosing what categories, areas and days they are interested in.
Instantaneous message delivery
Users get instant messages whenever something relevant is posted. Gone are they days of searching online for information that might or might not be there.
Map
Users gps location is used to show messages that are relevant for them in their vicinity.
Area
Users decide what parts of the country are applicable for them, and won’t recieve messages from outside their chosen area.
What’s public information suited for?
Public services
Public services like power, water and heat can use Alarm.fo to inform users about any changes or failures in their services.
Infrastructure
Whenever roadwork impacts the public, a message can be sent out explaining how long the work will take. The map will show a roadwork icon for the specific stretch of road.
Transportation
Any changes, cancelations or delays in public transportation can be sent out as soon as it becomes relevant. If changes occur, the message can be updated to reflect this.
Tourism
Tourists can view the map, and see what landmarks or events are in their proximity.
Enterprise solution
Company groups are private, which means users cannot join without an administrator invite. The administrator creates groups, and invites his intended users into it. It’s possible to send one message to several different groups, which lessens the time consumption for large companies. Messages can be sent with a response option, if you want feedback from your users.
Send messages to groups within your company. Alarm.fo makes it easy to design your own hierarchical group structure and invite users into it.
What’s special about company groups?
Overview
See who has received the message, seen it and who hasn’t seen it.
Hidden
Company groups are hidden, and as such aren’t visible to the public.
Comments
Users can write comments when they reply to messages.
Invites
Users can only join groups if they get an invite, and are required to accept the invite.
Drag & Drop
It’s easy to assign users to groups with the help of Drag & Drop functionality.
Message lifespan
By setting a lifespan on your messages, you can guarantee that messages expire and dissapear when they are no longer pertinent.
What are company groups suited for?
Companies
Company groups are very well suited for companies. The private nature of the groups, and the role of assigning members into groups by the administrator(s), makes them ideal as an internal communications system.
Sport clubs
With the help of the group organization tool it’s easy and intuative for administrator(s) to create different groups that are tied together in a greater whole. This feature makes it an ideal application for sport clubs to manage their different teams, members, staff and much much more.
Institutions
Institutions are often made up of several smaller sub divisions, this is one of the situations where company groups really shine. As the organizational nature of our groups make it superb for sending out messages to a specific sub division, or send out a greater scale message which is relevant for an entire division or the company as a whole.
Schools
Several different administrator can be assigned to company groups, this could entail that each class could have its own teacher as an administrator, while other administrators were assigned to the overall structure.
What are interest groups?
Interest groups are open for everyone, and as such they are very well suited for large events, such as festivals, where the organizers need an easy to use communication platform that can service a great deal of people. Messages can also be sent with a response option, which allows for questions, pools and feedback.
Send messages to your interest groups. The members of your group recieve the message instantaneously.
What’s special about interest groups?
Visible and open for everyone
Interest groups are visible and open for everyone.
Statistics
A statistics page gives a overview of how many members are in your interest group, how many have recieved your message(s), who has read them and how many have clicked on the attached link.
Message lifespan
By setting a lifespan on your messages, you can guarantee that messages expire and dissapear when they are no longer pertinent.
Don't require invites
Users are free to join interest groups.
What are interest groups suited for?
Festivals and events
Interest groups are very well suited for large events, such as festivals and events, where the organizers need an easy to use communication platform that can service a great deal of people. Examples could be schedule, map of the area, regulations, guides, song sheets, restaurants, weather and much more.
Businesses
Businesses can create their own interest group, where they can share their weekly ad papers, opening hours, special events and changes.
Fan clubs
Fan groups, where administrators can present schedules, pictures, news, excursions and other fan related information.
Restaurants
Publish your menu, opening hours and special offers.
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What are emergency messages?
Emergency messages are a tool for authorities. They reach all users of Alarm.fo, are unique, highlighted, always visible and are only used when necessary.
Emergency messages are sent by the authorities, and are delivered to all users of Alarm.fo.
What’s special about emergency messages?
Unique characteristic
Emergency messages have a unique charecteristic on the message overview and on the map.
For authorities only
Emergency messages are only available for authorities.
Reaches all users
Emergency messages are delivered to all users, regardless of their filter settings.
Always visible
Emergency messages are always pinned to the top on the overview.
What are emergency messages suited for?
Police
Emergency messages are thoroughly suited for police. Missing persons, abrubt dangerous situations and much more are examples of usage.
Weather stations
In the event of a storm, and unforeseen complications Alarm.fo could instantly inform people of the newly formed dangers.
Fire departments
Emergency messages could save lives if a fire is raging out of control, and people in a area need to be informed.
Healthcare
Emergency messages are ideal when a sudden health concern arises, that immidiatly demands the public are made aware of.
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What is On-call?
On-call is ideal when you find yourself in a situation, where you need to get an urgent message out to a group of people. With the help of our 3 step verification process, the system checks if the digital message is recieved, if not a SMS will be sent to their phone number, and lastly if the first two options failed to get a hold of the recipient, the system alerts the sender that a phone call is necessary for the individual.
On-call is used when standby employees need an urgent message delivered.
What’s special about On-call?
Custom interface
Customers get their own custom built interface to insure that it’s effortless, exact and fast to send out messages.
Voice message
On-call can record and play voice messages.
Overview
The sender gets an instant overview showing who has recieved and read the message.
3 step verification process
On-call uses a 3 step verification process to ensure that the intended recipient recieves his message as quickly as possible. The system checks if the digital message is recieved, if not a SMS will be sent to their phone number, and lastly if the first two options failed to get a hold of the recipient, the system alerts the sender that a phone call is necessary for the individual.
Much much more
On-call has a plethora of other conveniences that can be of great help for companies.
What is On-call especially suited for?
Police
On-call can help police services with calling in personnel in the event of a emergency situation.
Hospitals
On-call can help when more health workers are needed for urgent disasters.
Rescue operations
On-call is a superb tool if a disaster strikes, and an acute need for rescue workers to arrive at the scene quickly arises.
Fire departments
On-call is invaluable in the event that off duty or standby firefighters are needed for abrubt situations.
Standby
On-call is suited for all workplaces that have standby employees. With the help of the 3 step verification process On-call ensures that the wanted message is delivered to the intended recipients as quickly as possible.
