Today is Day One

Thursday, November 1, 2012, a commentator on TV announced that “Today is Day One.”  Our city and our region, grappling with the worse disaster in memory, are inching forward.  Everyone is doing their part, government, businesses, NGOs, and individuals.

Here at tmg-emedia, we have been very lucky.  Our office on 42nd and Madison survived unscathed.  No loss of power or connectivity.  All our employees are safe and sharing the same inconveniences as everyone.  A few have lost property, one serious, the rest minor.

Throughout all this, our priorities have been clear:

Our first responsibility is to each other.  The safety and wellbeing of our families, employees and their families is paramount.

Our second responsibility is to you, our clients and extended network, who all who rely on us for services and information.  We have kept our communications open and frequent via Facebook, twitter, text messages, calls, and emails.  We coordinated and planned storm preparations well.  We have been in the field, visiting client site after client site since Tuesday at dawn.  We are delighted that no loss of facilities, equipment, or data has occurred across our client base.

A significant percentage of our lower Manhattan clients still have no power; a few have power but no connectivity.  We continue to work with Con Edison and the ISPs to make sure we are there as power and services get restored.  We are also thrilled that clients who implemented our Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery plans were able to return to productive work immediately.  Our Managed Cloud customers also enjoyed uninterrupted services.  All in all, for a disaster of this magnitude, these results make us proud.

Finally, we have an important responsibility to our community.  Words are not enough.  We need action, we need involvement by all.  To that end we have announced the tmg-emedia Red Cross fund drive.  We will donate $100 per employee and $100 per client to the Red Cross.  We will also match all our employee donations.  We urge you to get involved in the rebuilding of our region and help in the recovery.  The Red Cross needs your help, and we are confident that you can also find many other ways to help.  Please follow this link to Red Cross on-line.

We thank you for your support, your trust in us, your good wishes, and your patience as we all recover and rebuild.