We’re pleased to be developing and hosting the new shared Christian Science calendar located at ChristianScienceCalendar.org. We announced the launch at the Northern California Church Alive Summit earlier this month, and already over 30 churches and organizations have signed up. We’re hoping to reach close to 100% participation, and are focusing on Northern California area churches to start, but plan to roll it out further as we can. Picture being able to open up your smartphone and reliably find upcoming Christian Science events near you. Pretty cool huh? That’s the vision.

Want to be part of it? Sign up here.

Want to share Wednesday Readings or your other citation research on specific topics? If you have a WordPress site you can now install the Pleasant Viewer plugin. It will let you and others easily publish and share citations online. It is Open Source (GPL licensed) and free to use and distribute.

It is the result of the “Hack Your Church” hackathon at the U.C. Berkeley CSO this past weekend. Julian, Cameron, James and Gabriel all worked on the ideas. It uses Cameron’s cskit-rb library to retrieve citations. It’s still a little rough around the edges but works nonetheless. Check it out!

http://wordpress.org/plugins/pleasant-viewer/

Check it out!

What apps would you like to see?

Check out this neat iPhone app called PracTrak made by Dale Matheny / Ray of Light Software — it looks like it’s an all-in-one Christian Science practitioner billing and tracking system for your patients on your iPhone.  Could be an interesting solution if you don’t have a better way of doing it already.  It currently costs $49.99 $2.99 but may very well be worth it if it meets your needs.

Click here to view or purchase PracTrak in the Apple App Store

If you are just looking for a web-based billing solution instead of an iPhone only app, we also highly recommend trying out Freshbooks — it is really easy to use and customize and has a free account you can use to test it out.  It’s what we use to manage our own invoicing and it’s really nice.

P.S. If you’re a practitioner and have tried out the PracTrak app or use some other method of billing your patients we’d love it if you shared your experiences in the comments below.

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialCSChurch

You can also see their ‘making of’ blog here: http://theproductionpost.blogspot.com/