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• Ohio School Boards Association Announces Leader Alert® Endorsement Apr. 29, 2008
  Ohio School Boards Association Endorses Leader Alert® for its 700 + member districts
  
  The Ohio School Boards Association announced today its endorsement of Leader Alert, a health and safety alerting product, for the more than 700 Ohio public school districts that comprise its membership. Leader Alert, the creation of Leader Technologies of Columbus, Ohio, makes it possible for a school to quickly and simultaneously alert thousands of parents and staff by telephone, texting, and email in case of emergencies ranging from lurking predators to snow days.
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• Leader Alert® Supports Shawnee State University Safety Lockdown Feb. 7, 2008
  Leader Alert® quickly notified over 3500 SSU students, faculty and staff
  
  When the community of Portsmouth, Ohio learned on February 7th that a fifth-grade teacher at Notre Dame Elementary School had been attacked in the classroom in front of her horrified students, they did not know at first whether it was an isolated incident or part of a larger threat.  But Portsmouth-based Shawnee State University was prepared.  Their Emergency Response Team used Leader Alert® to issue an emergency message that was received within minutes by all 3549 students, faculty, and staff.
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• Leader supports suburban Cleveland middle school safety lockdown Apr. 27, 2007
  Leader Alert® quickly notified 700 Parma City Schools parents, prevented panic
  
  An April 18 lockdown at Greenbriar Middle School in Parma, Ohio ended calmly when a 59-year old woman carrying a knife was quickly disarmed in the school’s entrance airlock, police were called, and school officials used an Ohio company’s product, Leader Alert®, to send a 40-second voice alert to the phones of 700 parents of students within minutes of the incident, avoiding a school closure and allowing classes to continue.
  
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• Leader issues White Paper: "The Future of Campus Alerting" Apr. 20, 2007
  Timely and informative alerts can save lives, unify response, stop rumors, and prevent panic
  
  "The tragedy at Viriginia Tech University on April 17, 2007 has school administrators across the nation looking for better ways to notify students, faculty, staff and even worried parents, friends, relatives and alumni about threatening situations. Security experts believe that timely notices to students and faculty, warning of a possible gunman on campus, might have lessened or even prevented the loss of life that followed.
  
  Hindsight is 20-20. No one knows for sure whether any kind of alert could have prevented the scope of this tragedy. A lone, crazed gunman with no previous history of violence is impossible to predict. However, we owe it to the memories of the students and professors whose lives were lost to try and make sense out of the lessons learned, so that future lives may be spared the suffering so needlessly inflicted upon so many." More (PDF)

• Leader issued U.S. Patent for Digital Leaderboard� communication engine Nov. 17, 2006
  Leader Technologies has been issued a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Digital Leaderboard� unified communications technology, the core technology that drives its suite of voice, video and data collaboration products and services.
  
  "Ten years ago I anticipated that the Internet would become the primary way people and enterprises would collaborate on a massive scale," said Michael T. McKibben, chairman and founder of Leader, and inventor of the Digital Leaderboard� technology. "The granting of this patent validates our vision, leadership, perseverance and it protects our valuable intellectual property."
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• Leader teams with Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC) Nov. 13, 2006
  Leader Technologies has teamed with the Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC) headquarted in Washington D.C. to provide communication and collaboration services nationally and internationally. MSCMC is closely affiliated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications headquartered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Go to the Leader Chairman's blog to get more information and to access a link to Bird Flu - What to do by Verona Fonte, Ph.D. - a timely threat mitigation resource.
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• Leader hosts former White House security advisor Oct. 26, 2006
  Leader Technologies hosted William (Bill) DeGenaro, a former security advisor to the White House during the Reagan and Bush (Sr.) administrations. After his service at the White House he was Director of Strategy & Innovation at 3M. DeGenaro focused his training on innovations and how to protect shareholder value...
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• Leader assists Louisiana Governor's Office following Hurricane Katrina Sept. 2, 2005
  Leader Technologies responded to an urgent call Tuesday, Aug. 30, from Louisiana officials following Hurricane Katrina to provide critical telecommunications services. LeaderPhone® was deployed immediately, linking the governor with dozens of federal, state and local disaster recovery officials, said Mike McKibben, Chairman and founder of Leader...
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• Leader hosts The Ohio Homeland Security Initiative at The Ohio State University. Dec. 13, 2004
  Leader helped bring together experts from government, academia and industry into a think-tank forum. The forum focused on state and local first responder "command and control" solutions that can be implemented now to help overcome the lack of communications and control that hinders disaster response and costs lives. Participating companies and organizations included General Dynamics, Cardinal Health, McDonald's, Sprint, Nextel, Bricker & Eckler, City of Columbus Department of Public Safety, WOSU-TV, The Ohio State University, Center for Strategic Management, Tibco, The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians and a number of other core technology providers.
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• LeaderPhone chosen by State of Kansas as exclusive conference calling provider. Nov. 24, 2004
  The State of Kansas has signed a contract with LeaderPhone® to provide audio conference calling services to all state agencies, slashing the cost in half over the previous carrier.
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• State of Wyoming chooses LeaderPhone conference calling services. May 10, 2004
  The State of Wyoming has entered into contract with Leader to expand its use of LeaderPhone Teleconferencing Services to 38 state agencies. More are planned. Jonathan Downing, Policy Analyst for the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services says, “Our employees and business partners have been very pleased with Leader’s services. They have resulted in a significant cost savings for our programs. At a time when we are faced with limited resources, Leader’s advanced and on-demand technologies have assisted us with maintaining a competitive edge in the provision of teleconferencing services to a state covering 97,813 square miles.”
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• Leader played key part in Terrorex 04 Homeland Security simulation. January 7-11, 2004
  Terrorex 2004 was a high-level Homeland Security conference among experts from commerce, industry, education, and government at the federal, state and local levels who are preparing the United States and its allies against terrorist attacks. It is believed to be the largest interagency anti-terrorism drill ever conducted. Leader Alert™, LeaderPhone®, Leader2Leader®, Leader Meeting® and Leader Smart Camera™ provided audio and video communications and allowed agencies involved to collaborate online to react and respond to terrorist threat simulations.
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• Columbus Business First June 6, 2003
  Cover Story: "Angels' Eyes:
  In shadow of big VC deals, small investors keep entrepreneurs supplied with capital" -- Mike McKibben has spent the last six years taking his Westerville-based company through an intensive research-and-development phase...
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• Leader awarded 2003 Tier I Ohio Award for Excellence May 23, 2003
  Business First, May 14, "Several Central Ohio businesses and organizations have received Ohio Awards of Excellence. The awards, endorsed by Gov. Bob Taft [and modeled after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award], recognize best practices..." Business First
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• Leader Selects DataPower to Accelerate Conference Calling (pdf) February 17, 2003
  LeaderPhone®, our reservationless, web-enabled audio conference calling service, is now more responsive to users with the addition of XML acceleration technology provided by DataPower Technology, Inc.
  C|Net | Network World | Application Development Trends | eWeek | Business Week Online | InfoWorld
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• eWeek Reviews LeaderPhone® January 13, 2003
  LeaderPhone® press coverage 1-13-03 - "LeaderPhone Allows Law Firm To Control, Monitor Calls, Helps Reduce Cost"
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