The Scouts now have the Handbook available for download from the Apple iTunes app store. Talk about getting with it. Kudo’s to the Scouts. I just was on the phone with my staff adviser and I could hear the excitement in his voice about some of the technology initiatives coming out of Irving, TX. Still, there’s much more that the Scouts can do. I was asking my Exec, “Can we get cell phone reception at our camps?”. He knew – yes, but spotty but we know where those spots are. It is the future. Scouting was created by responding to what kids were doing, using B-P’s “Aids to Scouting” – a book for adults, and then shaping it. Well, that “customer focus” worked then and will work know. If we, Scouts, do not change then shame on us for membership losses.

I can’t link directly from here to the Scout handbook app. I just had my 13 year-old nephew show me that I first have to download Apple’s iTune computer application and then can get into the store. See… they know. Its us old guys that have to learn.