WHERE ARE THE MAJOR TECH COMPANIES TO HELP WITH KATRINA COMMUNICATIONS...this blogger Joyce Schwarz just went to the CTIA Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association ( CTIA ) website and I don't see anything about helping Katrina victims, emergency services group with communications help.
click on thumbnail to see CTIA website and see if you can find mention of how the wireless industry is helping Katrina victims and EMS with wireless services/donations?
CTIA -- SPRINT, CINGULAR, TMOBILE -- all at New Orleans Convention Center every year -- now where are they?
CTIA meets every spring at the New Orleans Convention Center to show it's new wares-- millions and millions of dollars of mobile phones, Wi-Fi, wireless services and two-way radios. Now that same Convention Center is the site of murder & mayhem.
Here's excerpts from press releases from Wireless/Communications companies who were in the same New Orleans Convention Center where murder and mayhem rule-- if you know any of these companies are helping out Katrina communications/victims -- let me know i will give them a free blog tribute!
LATEST PRESS RELEASE FROM CTIA -- promotes its SFO show-- no info about KATRINA: CORPORATE HELP KATRINA -- thanks to Kelloggs, Walmart, DELTA, where are you Cisco, Intel, Microsoft and Wireless companies?
CBS Broadcasting, Warner Music, Major League Baseball Among ... Suzan DelBene, Corporate Vice President of Marketing, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division, Microsoft Corp. -- Sean Maloney, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Mobility Group, Intel Corp. -- Mary McDowell, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Solutions, Nokia Mobile Entertainment Keynote Session - Wednesday, September 28, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Chairman & CEO, Warner Music Group -- Rob Glaser, Chairman & CEO, RealNetworks, Inc. -- Joel Katz, Co-Managing Shareholder- Atlanta Office Chair, Greenberg Traurig, LLP Mobile Marketing Keynote Session - Thursday, September 29, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Wednesday's keynotes -- Len Lauer, Chief Operating Officer, Sprint Nextel Corporation -- Adam Ritter, Vice President of Wireless, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. -- Cyriac Roeding, Vice President of Wireless, CBS Broadcasting Digital Media -- Gary Towning, Senior Partner, Group Account Director, OgilvyOne Worldwide New York -- Mark Kaplan, Partner, Interactive Technology and Content Rights Management, Anomaly |
Excerpted from the NY TIMES story (see link here: In a Multitude of Forms, the Offers of Help Pour In Corporations opened their coffers, led by $10 million from UnitedHealth Group's foundation, and many matched money with material: Kellogg sent seven truckloads of NutriGrain bars, crackers and cookies south, U-Haul offered 30 days of free storage to affected families and Nissan said it would lend 50 full-size trucks for a month. The chief executive of Delta Airlines flew from Atlanta to New Orleans on Wednesday in a 757 stuffed with 20,000 pounds of cots, blankets, food, generators and toilet paper, and returned with 150 stranded employees and passengers. Walmart keeps adding to its pledge for monies/merchandise. THANK YOU.
BATON ROUGE companies-- thank you for your help: Baton Rouge girds for growth 2theadvocate.com, LA -
... A number of corporations are relocating their offices that used to be in the New Orleans area to Baton Rouge, and many are buying homes and entire apartment ...
A way people can help very personally:
MoveOn.org just announced that it has set up a Web-based service to match people who have space to
spare with Katrina survivors in need of housing.
Go to www.hurricanehousing.org.
Meg
Posted by: Meg | September 01, 2005 at 11:57 PM