Send Word Now Notification Service Successfully Sends Critical Communications During Blackout 2003

    NEW YORK, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Within minutes after the Northeast power
 failure began, Send Word Now customers started using the service to notify key
 employees according to their crisis management and emergency preparedness
 plans. Send Word Now is a service established as a result of 9/11 that enables
 key personnel to send a single message to multiple voice and text devices
 simultaneously in order to reach hundreds or thousands of people within
 minutes.
     "Send Word Now delivered what we have been promising our customers and
 prospects since we launched the company in October of 2001," said Sanford H.
 Cohen, Founder and Chief Executive Officer.  "Our service was reliable, fast
 and most importantly simple to access and easy to use.   All of our customers
 were able to access the Send Word Now service and send their messages within
 minutes, even while certain phone and email systems went down as a result of
 the power loss up and down the eastern seaboard."
     One customer, The Bank of New York was able to disseminate information,
 assemble response teams and keep the response process moving forward as
 planned.  According to Mark Gizzi, Global Crisis Management Coordinator for
 The Bank of New York, "During this catastrophic power disruption, we were able
 to communicate within seconds to our front line crisis management team members
 by simply clicking and going.  If you cannot quickly communicate with your
 emergency response personnel during this type of situation, then your
 contingency plan will be ineffective."
     Said Cohen, "Send Word Now is the engine that takes an individual's
 familiar communication devices such as a home phone and cell phone number,
 with a business and personal email address for example and sends the same
 message to any or all of these devices within minutes."
 
     SWN Communications Inc. and Send Word Now
     SWN Communications Inc., parent of Send Word Now is a leading critical and
 routine notification service provider designed to extend public and private
 sector emergency preparedness, business continuity, disaster recovery, and
 contingency planning capabilities.  The service allows an account holder to
 send a message to reach multiple people and their familiar communication
 devices (i.e. cell, work and home phone numbers, email, pager, and other text
 messaging devices) at the same time.  The mission of the company is to
 increase the probability that a message is received in a timely fashion and a
 call to action is implemented during critical or routine situations.
     The company currently has customers across the United States from the
 media, consulting, public, security, safety, financial and real estate
 sectors.  The company is headquartered in New York City.
     SWN Communications Inc. is a registered trademark and Send Word Now is a
 registered trademark of SWN Communications Inc.  Other brands and product
 names are trademarks of their respective owners.
 
 

SOURCE  SWN Communications Inc.