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FEATURES
WeatherWarn2000 has many special features that make it easy to use and useful for your station:
We only need an approved company purchase order or a credit card to get started. Once billing is setup you can then access our automated signup page to choose what bulletins you want, the counties in your ADI you want to cover, and even what times and days of the week you want the bulletins to be active. You'll also need to give us an email account for your station to use as a "master control" for the service. Once you complete the signup, it takes about an hour to prepare your account, and email will automatically begin flowing to your subscribers.
In fact you don't even need an Internet website to make this service work! All you need is a single email account on any service to control and monitor the entire WeatherWarn service.
If you do have a web site, we do offer web page "plug -ins" to allow your viewers to signup for your custom WeatherWarn service, but it is not required that you use these.
All you have to do is promote the service on the air by saying something like: If you'd like to signup for our free Channel xx WeatherWarn go to our website and sign up for FREE
You can do this yourself to try our demo subscription service click on this link:
You have full control over what types of bulletins are sent to your custom WeatherWarn200 account. You can use as much or as little as you wish. Our automated signup procedure allows you to choose what counties you want to cover and the bulletins that you want to allow.
You can choose the way you want the email to look by adding a header text like:
"This weather bulletin comes to you via the Channel xx StormTracker Weather team"
and a footer to the message like "Complete details on this and other breaking weather tonight on Channel xx News"
or a sponsor like "This WeatherWarn public service is sponsored in part by International Widgets Inc"
You can also place links to your stations web page or weather center page in each bulletin.
Click here to see a sample bulletin
This is a secure password protected account that will enable your meteorologist or promotions manager etc. to send a custom email message to all subscribers on your list in your ADI. To make this work you need only to send an email to a special hidden location (not available to the public) with the password embedded in the message at a certain location. Our powerful email security system will filter and check your mail to be sure it is valid, and will only pass email that meets the three levels of security criteria set for your account. This is to ensure that your subscribers don't get any "Spam" or other unwanted (and potentially embarrassing) email from the service.
This optional feature will immediately take users to the world wide web site showing your state map and the counties affected with a key showing the watches and warnings in color.
You could also direct them to your own station web site by providing a link as well.
We can easily add other accounts covering a variety of special needs for your station ( a nominal extra charge applies).
There are two ways this can be done, we can setup a separate account for you that only deals with school closings (nominal extra charge) or you can use the standard WeatherWarn Account setup for your station to send emails of all school closings. The value of having a separate account is that some people may not want to get all of the weather bulletins, but they do want the school closing information.
The system is very flexible. Take the Cincinnati Ohio market for example. Iit covers three states, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. The system is easily configurable to deliver bulletins covering counties in all three states, or if you want to have a separate account for each state, we can do that too. That way, people in your coverage area won't get bulletins from another state even though they may only live a few miles from the state line.
Many large cities have email services on pagers now, if you wish, we can setup a special account (nominal extra charge applies) that gives abbreviated bulletins for use on pagers.
There really is nothing you need to do other than monitor the service with your email account and web browser.
We have three levels of security to prevent SPAM, hackers, and false bulletins from reaching your subscribers. Plus we have an un-interrupptable power supply for all of our systems, a natural gas powered backup generator in case the UPS runs out, and a backup internet connection.
Full T-1 speed, with bandwidth enhancements up to T-3 as our subscriber base grows. Our Email server is capable now of delivering up to a million emails per hour, it can grow to up to 30 million. For larger account needs, we can place dedicated email servers in our facility or at your city. Our system is fully scalable on a local or national level and as demand increases so will our bandwidth and systems.
Click here for a sample
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