• 99 Cents Could Buy A House
  • – This is a brother from the church donating 100% of all the proceeds from the purchase of this song to build a home for refugees. Come on… it’s .99 cents. Even I can help out with this one… and I get a song in return! Sweet! It’s got a nice 60’s/70’s feel to it!

  • Provo and Orem do not disappoint when it comes to drinking and smoking
  • – This has list of “Heaviest Drinking Metro Areas” and “Most Sober Metro Areas.” Provo falls in the second category, but I was surprised to see two of my North Carolina towns in the Most sober top ten as well! Go NC!!

  • Ward/Stake calendar subscriptions
  • – Did I mention I love the LDSTech Forums? Here is another great post that has a link off to the product line for the church calendaring system. Now if we could actually make some progress on getting this stuff developed and implemented… I so wish I could contribute more than ideas… perhaps one day! (I just need to learn a programming language that would be useful!)

  • Emergency Notification and Texting
  • – This would be an awesome addition to the church system. I said as much on the forum, but just to repeat here. It could be set up on an opt-in basis. I know many, many folks would like this type of functionality… especially leaders of youth!

    I did some research into SMS texting a while back for my job and the big drawback is getting a SMS number to text from. It was absurdly expensive (like $30K a month or something like that). Now granted, this was a couple of years ago and there are a lot of free services out there that offer SMS as part of the software (Read: Google Voice), so maybe the prices have come down, or maybe we could tie into one of these online services.


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