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Steve Wilson: Nov 12, 2026, 8:00:00 AM
Not every alert needs to reach the entire organization. An IT outage may affect only one department, while a safety incident may require notifying employees at one location. With targeted employee notifications, you can send messages to specific...
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Steve Wilson: Nov 10, 2026, 8:00:00 AM
When an outage takes out email or Teams, the usual way of telling employees goes down with it. This guide sets out the outage notification sequence – first alert, updates, all-clear – and explains...
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Steve Wilson: Nov 5, 2026, 8:00:00 AM
Employees ignore alerts when the alert stream has taught them that most alerts can wait: company-wide sends that concern only a few people, routine and critical notices in the same format, and a pace...
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Steve Wilson: Nov 3, 2026, 8:00:00 AM
IT outages, emergencies, policy changes and HR announcements all have to reach the right employees on time, and some need a record of who received and confirmed them. An employee notification process...
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Steve Wilson: Oct 29, 2026, 9:00:00 AM
The alternatives to email for urgent employee notifications are desktop alerts, SMS, mobile push, Microsoft Teams, digital signage and voice calls – used together, because no single channel reaches...
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Steve Wilson: Oct 23, 2026, 9:00:00 AM
Messages about site closures and evacuations tend to miss the people who are not at a screen – the night shift, field crews and drivers, staff at home when a site closes at 5 a.m. Afterward, the...
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Steve Wilson: Oct 22, 2026, 9:00:00 AM
Confirming that employees have read a critical message comes down to a record you can defend: the exact text sent to named people, a deliberate confirmation from each of them, and what you did about...
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Steve Wilson: Oct 16, 2026, 9:00:00 AM
Crisis management is the organized way a company prepares for, responds to and recovers from an event that threatens its people, its operations or its reputation. It assigns decisions to named people...
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Steve Wilson: Oct 12, 2026, 9:07:00 AM
Windows has no built-in command that sends a pop-up to every computer on a network. The net send command has not been supported since Windows Vista, and its built-in successor, the msg command,...
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Steve Wilson: Sep 30, 2026, 12:44:25 PM
A business continuity communication plan is the part of a business continuity plan that most teams write last and need first. When a system, a site or a supplier fails, the recovery work starts with...
