Wired Campus: University Used Instant Messages to Communicate After Fire - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: University Used Instant Messages to Communicate After Fire - Chronicle.com: "University Used Instant Messages to Communicate After Fire

In the wake of a devastating fire at Our Lady of the Lake University last month, university officials didn’t rely on phone calls or e-mail to keep the university community connected. They couldn’t. The fire was in the campus’s main building and had knocked the entire e-mail and phone networks out for about three days. Instead, the community relied on an instant-messaging service."