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• Virginia Tech Selects HiSoftware for Website Accessibility

  - 2008-08-05

  Web Compliance Solution Chosen to improve Accessibility for All NASHUA, N.H. and BLACKSBURG, Va. -- HiSoftware Inc. (www.hisoftware.com), a leading provider of software, services and managed operation solutions that monitor and optimize Web content governance, quality and regulatory compliance, today announced that Virginia Tech (www.vt.edu) has selected HiSoftware's Compliance...

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• There is a gunman on campus; tragedy and terror at Virginia Tech

  - 2008-08-01

  There is a gunman on campus; tragedy and terror at Virginia Tech. Ed. by Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke. Rowman & Littlefield 2008 263 pages $28.95 Paperback HV6534 On April 16, 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (commonly called...

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• Long Island campuses take a hard stance on boosting security

  - 2008-04-18

  A year after the shootings at Virginia Tech left 33 dead, Long Island's universities are taking campus security quite seriously. Local schools such as Hofstra, Dowling and Stony Brook University are fine-tuning messaging systems, installing speakers, beefing up closed-circuit television networks and requiring that students sign onto...

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• A year on, Virginia Tech mourns but moves on

  - 2008-04-16

  BLACKSBURG, Virginia AFP — Thousands of mourners wearing the university's colors of maroon and orange Wednesday marked one year since 32 students and professors were brutally shot dead in the Virginia Tech massacre. They stood quietly in front of a memorial to the victims on the university drill field,...

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• Utah colleges investing in campus safety training

  - 2008-04-16

  Safety protocol at Utah's colleges and universities is stepping up a year after the fatal shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. On the one-year anniversary of the tragic deaths of 32 students and faculty members at the Blacksburg, Va., university, more than 200 schools nationwide are adopting a training...

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• It's 2008: is your 911 website ready? Eight tips for designing an institution's crisis web template

  - 2008-04-01

  JUST A FEW HOURS AFTER THE Virginia Tech tragedy, so-called experts in crisis communication were prompt to criticize the emergency response of the university, which had just been hit by the worst campus shooting spree in U.S. history. In the following days, many stayed busy crucifying the institution for the...

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• Gun dealer unnerved to learn coincidence behind 2 shootings

  - 2008-02-17

  MADISON, Wis. -- The online gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter said it was an unnerving coincidence that he also sold handgun accessories to the man who killed five students at Northern Illinois University. Eric Thompson said his Web site, www.topglock.com, sold two...

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• Top PR Crises of 2007

  - 2007-12-31

  2007 has been filled with big crises that presented PR challenges, from the Virginia Tech massacre to Don Imus to the NBA's gambling referee. PRWeek has done a nice job summing up the year in PR with its 2007 Book of Lists, including 10 PR Crises that...

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• SDR Forum Announces Winners of Its Inaugural Smart Radio Challenge and Qualifying Teams for the 2008 Challenge

  - 2007-11-12

  In Worldwide Competition, Student Engineering Teams Design, Develop and Test a Software Defined or Cognitive Radio DENVER -- At its annual technical conference last week in Denver, the SDR Forum (www.sdrforum.org) announced the winning teams in its inaugural Smart Radio Challenge, a worldwide competition in which student engineering teams...

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• START STUFFING SHOE-BOX GIFTS

  - 2007-10-20

  It may be a little early to think about the holidays, but it is never too early to think about helping needy children around the world. Operation Christmas Child is asking kids and organizations to make shoe-box gifts to be sent to children living in areas affected...

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