Connect-CTY(R) to Participate in Conference and Discuss Best Practices in Emergency Preparedness, Leadership and Innovation, and 'Green' Practices in

The NTI Group, Inc. (NTI), a leader in mass notification services, is participating in the annual Conference of Cities, sponsored by the National League of Cities in New Orleans, Louisiana. NTI will be providing best practices information for municipal leaders to improve emergency preparedness procedures and promote green practices through mass communications.

NTI will be consulting with municipal leaders from across the nation about how their Connect-CTY mass communication technology plays directly into innovations in green technology and emergency preparedness at booth 1225 in the Ernest Morial Convention Center. Beginning with an opening reception Wednesday, November 14 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., the booth is open from 10:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, November 15 and from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, November 16.

Many municipal leaders are discovering the many green benefits of having an electronic communications service that can be targeted to specific members of the community. Voice and text messages can be sent to residents regarding important city announcements instead of costly door tags and paper mailings. Cities such as Brazoria, Texas and Wilson City, North Carolina have found Connect-CTY a paper-saving solution for alerting residents of past due utility invoices. The cities of Hesperia, California and Willow Park, Texas have had similar successes, using the Connect-CTY service to send notifications regarding utility disruptions and maintenance work.

The Connect-CTY communication system enables community officials to send and track personalized voice messages in any language to tens of thousands of residents, businesses, and local officials in just minutes. To ensure that important messages and emergency response information reach recipients quickly, no matter what their preferred method of communication is, the Connect-CTY service sends voice and text messages through four different modes of communication:

-- Voice messages to home phones, work phones, cell phones, and even
emails
-- Text messages to cell phones, PDAs and other text-based devices
-- Written messages to e-mail accounts
-- Messages to TTY/TDD receiving devices for the hearing impaired



"The best way to keep residents safe is through communication, and the Connect-CTY service makes it easy," said Robin D. Richards, Chairman and CEO of NTI. "With the Connect-CTY service, administrators have a powerful tool for mass communication without having to purchase new computers, software and telephone lines."

About The NTI Group, Inc.

The NTI Group, Inc. (NTI), a Delaware corporation, is a privately held company that provides award winning communication systems designed specifically for local, regional, state, and Federal government entities. The Connect family of services enables rapid dissemination of critical information via voice and text devices using its premier mass notification engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily record and send time-based notifications to thousands of people in minutes using just a telephone. NTI makes and distributes the Connect-ED(R), Connect-CTY(R), Connect-GOV(R), and Connect-MIL(R) systems, allowing users to target specific groups and/or geographic regions within their database(s) and engage recipients in two-way communication by asking them to respond to questions via their telephone keypads.