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WHY PIER?
The full spectrum online
communication management
system
The Origin of AudienceCentral
1999 Olympic Pipeline Explosion
Crisis Communications
Founder Gerald Baron was
spokesperson for Olympic
Pipeline
• No easy way to coordinate
official statements across
multiple agencies
• No efficient way to
communicate with the public
and media
• No way to manage the
hundreds of inquires from
media and public
Crisis Response &
Share Price
But, how to communicate a welldesigned plan?
4 Ps
Policies
Plan
People
Platform – PIER System
The PIER Idea:
Put everything a communicator or
team needs into a single, integrated,
easy to use online communications
control room.
A control center accessible 24/7 from wherever you are.
Solution: The PIER Control Center
Situation Status
& Tracking
Content Creation
& Collaboration
Secure
Conferencing
& Messaging
Survey Distribution
& Tabulation
Approver
Notification
& Signoff
Inquiry Handling
& History
Email / Fax / Phone
SMS Text
Notification
One-Button
Web Posting
NIMS Compliant Joint Information
Center
PIER was designed to operate in an Incident Command System
environment and meets NIMS requirement for a Joint Information
System.
PIER is unique in that it allows you
to manage all three modes of
communication at once--what we call
full spectrum communication
management
Push
“Push” info to audiences
via email, fax & telephone
Pull
Publish info to website
for viewers to “pull”
Interactive
Respond to inquiries, gather
input
What We Do
We launch and host crisis-ready systems for
managing Stakeholder Communications
Stakeholders
(who care about what you do)
Professional
Communicators
PIER
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Critical Insiders
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Emergency Responders
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Fence line neighbors
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Community Leaders
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Press/Media
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Elected officials
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General Public
Foundation Coal Holdings
PIER System
Linthicum Heights, MD
Major crises and
special purpose
(eg “dark sites”)
Control centers for individual mines
or regions
Larger operations have
multiple centers for different
purposes and audiences
PIER: Each center allows
push/pull/interactive communications
with multiple internal and external
stakeholder groups
Crisis Center
State of Washington – EMD
Public Information Center
State of Washington – EMD
Accessible Crisis Plans
SYSTEM
Urgent & Critical Communication Management
AudienceCentral, Inc.
Bellingham, WA
(360) 756-8080
www.piersystem.com
[email protected]