Cell Phone – Bill Glick .:. tech . art . God . life http://blog.billglick.com thoughts on technology, arts, God, and life Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:18:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 SMS Kids Check-In System /2007/12/06/sms-kids-check-in-system/ /2007/12/06/sms-kids-check-in-system/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:28:01 +0000 /2007/12/06/sms-kids-check-in-system/ Continue reading SMS Kids Check-In System]]> This article on using cell phones as plane tickets got me thinking. Would it be useful to allow parents to somehow use their cell phones to check-in their children to kids programs at church?

Could a parent send an SMS message to the church as they’re arriving to somehow speed up or simplify the process? When they show up at the check-in area, the volunteers or whatever could have preprinted name tags and labels for the kid.

Then that same cell phone could be used as a contact method for the parent in an emergency. If a parent needs to be contacted, why not send a text message to the parent’s cell phone that they registered the child with?

It’d take some work to make it easy, but why not consider it? Doesn’t most everyone carry a cell phone anyway?

What do you think?

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