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Schools, colleges, even nurseries, are major users of SMS messaging for a variety of useful applications, contacting colleagues, parents, carers, students and 3rd parties.

Phone lines can be unblocked in the morning by enabling parents to text in reports of absence rather than calling. Other queries can also be received using a Virtual Mobile Number to free up admin staff.

Parents can be informed by text of many issues, from truancy and bad behaviour, to times of sporting events or rehearsals. Parents can also be alerted of snow closures or other changes of routine.

See below many more examples of why SMS messaging is indispensable for schools, colleges and nurseries.

Posted on 26/02/2015
In Use Cases

Becoming a parent the first time is often overwhelming. To know what to do, we read books, search online, ask our family and friends. But even then it’s easy to suffer from information overload. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a simple checklist, or specific activities we could be told about on a regular basis via SMS?

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Posted on 16/09/2014
In Use Cases

I’ve written about a lot of different uses for text messaging in our blog. But today I read an article about an organisation using it in a completely new way: Bully Text, a game, played via text message over the course of a day.

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