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SchoolTipline.com is a new Web-based application that serves the digital-age tattletale. In a time where kids are practically born with a cell phone in their hand, the days of the anonymous tip box outside the principal’s office are nearing an end. “SchoolTipline provides administrators with an affordable and easy-to-use Web-based service through which they can send and receive timely information and manage feedback from students, parents, and staff.”

The site encourages students to report inside information to the school’s administrators via their cell phone. It appears that the primary usage is to report bullies who may be threatening other students. I’m willing to bet most companies don’t provide mobile access to their executives via a Web-based, cellular-user interface. Usually a service like this is only provided to a select few, and only to those who may be more technically inclined. But things are changing.

In this new world, where, the younger you are, the more likely you are to be using the latest technology; we can expect early adopters to be younger and younger. After all, how old was the salesperson who recommended your current phone?

It’s effective applications like SchoolTipline that are going to continue to creep into our everyday communication tool belt. For SchoolTipline, it appears they have their usability in order, and are offering a sound system that will help communities to coordinate issues in a better way than before. Bravo!