palmOne Deploys Group Communication Tool

palmOne is offering the first mobile application of Send Word Now, the leading web-based emergency notification service, on Treo 650 and Treo 600 smartphones for quickly notifying decision-makers or employees during a crisis or unexpected situations.

Mobile group communication is now available to handle corporate security, business continuity, or other everyday emergencies. Recipients can be notified via multiple voice, email or text devices within minutes. Gift of Life Michigan, one of the nation's 58 federally designated organ-recovery organizations, is the first company to deploy Send Word Now for Treo smartphones to speed organ and tissue donations to patients on waiting lists.

Send Word Now's application on the Treo smartphone automates and accelerates notification procedures, making decision-makers and employees reachable faster. Users can do the following:

• Initiate a conference call immediately with multiple people in their contacts list;
• Send messages with the Treo 650 and Treo 600 smartphones to any device via voice, email or text message;
• Provide message recipients with response options;
• Track and verify message delivery and collect real-time responses;
• Organize real-time responses;
• Organize contacts and send targeted messages to any user-defined group; and
• Register to receive alerts directly on the Treo smartphone.

"Rather than spending half an hour calling all of the team members, it now takes only a minute or two to get everyone on the team up to date with the latest details," said Rich Pietroski, chief operating officer at Gift of Life Michigan. "We're very excited about the opportunity to streamline our operations and dispense with many unnecessary phone calls."

Patient's lives depend on Gift of Life Michigan's ability to navigate organ- and tissue-recovery teams through the complex and constantly changing medical landscape that surrounds a donor. With Send Word Now for Treo smartphones, the nonprofit organization is able to quickly notify geographically diverse recovery teams of up-to-the-minute changes in plans via voice, email or text message. Before using this application, the organization would call each individual team member, resulting in wasted valuable time and forcing coordinators to contend with the possibility that the situation may have changed again before everyone can be contacted. Now, they can send one message to multiple contacts and have the responses automatically collected and tallied. Send Word Now for Treo smartphones makes it easy for Gift of Life Michigan to organize and react to the unique circumstances of an organ/tissue recovery in record time.

Customers interested in using Send Word Now for Treo 650 or Treo 600 smartphones can choose from a variety of plans that range in price from as low as $4.99 to as much as $79.99 per month.