Parent Booker Launches iPhone App to Help Schools Recruit Volunteers

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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 Time: 2:53 AM

"iPhone; therefore, iVolunteer." -Future Mom

Smartphones are still revolutionizing the way entire democracies falter and flourish, so it will be time of the fact that education system took note and applied these wonderful, little super-processors towards needs and wants of schools and school parents. Indeed, one only has to consult a parent from afar--madly texting away in the red light, or snapping photos health of their kid eating jelly beans--to realize how dependent a lot of the public's daily success relies upon the interactive functionality of smartphones.

"My vision is that every school ought to have its iPhone and iPad application that keeps parents engaged and informed about school news and school volunteer opportunities," says Richard Hall, founder and CEO with the volunteer scheduling system, Parent Booker. "This can leapfrog schools from paper and pen systems with the cellular phones and tablets that is embracing." Parent Booker costs $59.95 each and every month, and offer schools unlimited use of its powerful online services.

Volunteer coordination services abound for schools, they are priced between one to yet another with regards to usability, efficiency, and elegance. Most masters accommodate the parents online by delivering email reminders for volunteering responsibilities and enabling the virtual signups of actual events, be they fundraisers, parent-teacher conferences, school dances, or field trips. Parents and teachers rightfully relish the power to manage their kids' lives at home right after a long day's work, nevertheless the shifting tides of homework and outside-world-work now require computing on-the-go.

Hall, among other parents who took note of the gap, aims to bridge the differences by means of parents an absolutely free mobile app so that similar measure of access as ParentBooker.com, where schools can personally brand their site for their school's colors and insignia. The app, already flourishing for an online service, generates personalized lists of volunteer opportunities, allows parents to enroll in and/or withdraw from any volunteering responsibility, and tracks service hours with a progress meter against a school's set goals. As an alternative to schools required to completely overcome electronics in the attention of grown adults, they'll become a point of interest within parents' superconnected lives.

In tech, much like business and drag racing, getting there first is everything. "Imagine your school being your initial in the market to consider its very own iPhone and iPad app to oldsters," Hall offers. Progressive parents would like to know that the ways of communication are open and accessible, and they evolve with fresh technology. By commandeering the eye of parents, and providing them to be able to enjoy their iPhones and stay alert to the requirements of their kids simultaneously, "schools can modify themselves into hotspots for volunteer activity" and reinforce quality communities. To revolutionizing public education, smartphones are the new bulltinboards for fogeys. It’s time we start by getting embracing them per se.

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Richard Hall is the Founder and CEO of Parent Booker. Parent Booker is an innovative service that provides schools with a branded website and mobile app to recruit, track and remind parent volunteers.