Other public sector agencies are getting in on the act, from the Coast Guard to the Drug Enforcement Agency to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  According to the chief of the FBI’s national press office, “Our job … is to talk to people out in the world, and this is how people are talking these days. We can either be part of the new wave or we can watch it.”

Move over Ashton, Oprah, and Ellen: all the world’s a-Twitter….

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• Our new mobile digital video recorder (MDVR) for the police/law enforcement sector–the PatrolRecorder Series–debuts in Law Enforcement Product News (May/June, pg 35).
• Triple whammy: Our SV-LCD70 flat-screen monitor, RouteRecorder 5C MDVR, and SV-SS22 color zoom camera are all featured in Fire Chief magazine’s Product Showcase (May, pg 67).
• Double whammy: Concrete Products magazine ran a piece penned by Safety Vision Account Executive Steve Sappol titled “The Rear Vision Camera Revolution” (May, pg 37) and earlier included a Safety Vision rear- and side-vision product release (March, pg 61)
• Account Executive Jeff Taylor was interviewed by Advanced Rescue Technology for a feature discussing the beneficial integration of our SV-CLCD-65-620 rear-vision camera system and our RoadRecorder 6000 PRO MDVR for the fire/rescue industry (April/May, pg 29).
• Our new RouteRecorder 1000 MDVR is featured in both School Bus Fleet (April/May, pg 56) and School Tranpsortation News (April, pg 59).
• Our new side-vision color camera, the SVC-200S, appears in the pages of Waste News (April 24, pg 21).
• In March, Safety Vision sponsored the “Backing safety” article in Beverage Industry, which included a letter from our president, Bruce Smith, explaining the pertinence of both collision avoidance and mobile surveillance systems in the food & beverage distribution sector
• Our sleek new side-vision camera, the SV-250SC, is featured in a “Spotlight on Consumer Electronics” segment in RV Trade Digest, a publication serving the recreational vehicle market (March, pg 29)
• Another double whammy: North American Quarry News ran not-one-but-two very favorable articles featuring our collision avoidance camera systems: “Granite City Ready Mix Reaps Rewards of Rear-Vision Investment” and “Safety Vision Products Raise Industry Standard” (February, pgs 3 and 4)
• Our largest single purchase order to date–the $1 million plus installation for IndyGo, the Indianapolis metro transit system–gets ink in an article titled “Cameras soon will monitor IndyGo riders, drivers” on Indystar.com (January)
• And we wrapped up 2005 with additional good press. Eurotransport ran a sidebar on our onboard security cameras and mobile surveillance systems within a security feature titled “CCTV: crucial role” (pg 58); School Transportation News spotlighted Bruce in a “Presidential Series” interview in November (pg 40); and Account Executive Richard Newcombe was interviewed by Railway Age magazine for its “Transit security: What more can be done?” article (pg 37)

In other industry publication news, we’re also appearing in a few industry buyer’s guides that are new to us (along with our inclusion in the many other buyer’s guides we’ve traditionally run in): Police & Security News (March/April), Oilheating Journal (April), and Christian School Products (May).

Whew: That IS a lot of good press! Keep your eyes peeled as you turn the pages, and you’re likely to stumble on us in future issues of industry pubs. Meanwhile, stay tuned to this spot for ongoing updates on where you can “read up on us,” and be sure to check out our Safety Vision: In The News page on our Web site…!

- Christine Portillo, Marketing Director