Clever nagios alert methods
Solution 1:
Using XMPP / Jabber to send Instant Messages is pretty popular. Here is a short tutorial on how to set this up.
Solution 2:
We show nagios alerts on our IRC channel using the NagiosIRC bot
Solution 3:
We are using twitter, google chat, mail, and the best thing is the nagios firefox plugin
there are also hardware option like the nagios nabaztag mod