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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Vatican Uses Text Mesaging/Email for Crisis Comms

Reuters:

It took just minutes for the Vatican to alert the world's media of Pope John Paul's death -- using text messages and email so the 2,000-year-old Church could meet the new demands of real-time news.

The Vatican isn't exactly known as a bleeding-edge technology center, so any large organization who isn't prepared to use the latest technology for crisis communications is certainly behind the curve.

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