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  • New Jobs in support and social media

    I recently posted the following stories to the OSC home page, and am posting links here for those who might be interested in the following opportunities:

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  • Another Catholic Job Opportunity: eCatholic

    It looks like there’s another great opportunity for Catholics today; eCatholic, a company that helps parishes with their online presence, is hiring a sales and marketing rock star:

    We are currently looking for someone to join our team in the unique role of eCatholic Evangelist. The goal of this position is to passionately, proactively, and creatively spread eCatholic to parishes, dioceses, and schools around the country. In short, we are looking for a sales and marketing rock star.

    Read more details and apply on the eCatholic website.

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  • Catholic/New Media Job Opportunities

    Lately there have been a few new job opportunities for Catholics who are in the tech realm and/or are looking to work with social/new media. Here are two I’ve heard about in the past week:

    I’m happy...

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  • Catholic Diocese App for iOS/Android powers new Jesuit App

    Ever since building Catholic STL, an iOS app for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, and then generalizing the code to produce the Catholic Diocese App for iOS, I’ve wanted to develop a version for Android.

    Jesuit App - Locations - iOS    Jesuit App - News - Android

    A few months ago, the Jesuit Conference contacted me, and finally gave me the ability to do this. Not only was I able to build the Jesuit App for iOS and Android phones (Android version will be on Google Play soon!), but I was able to generalize the code from the...

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  • The distraction caused by Mobile in Church

    I have seen my friends(Youth) bringing mobile in church,which causes lot of distraction.I don’t understand why the youth are so attached with mobile.We have 365 days with 24 hours and we don’t worship God with our heart for 2-3 hours but worship the moble for long than they imagine.I am sick of seeing this kind of behaviour and want to write that bringing mobile to church is not a good thing.It causes distraction,and why do you bring mobile to church just for 2-3 hours.Even our catholic prist talks about the...

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  • Beta test period for Catechism API - 25 keys available

    A year ago, I registered the domain catholiccrossreference.com after my previous web site suffered a meltdown. This domain became the new home of my Catechism search engine (among other things).

    Today, I am announcing the release of a Catechism API (still in beta).  There is no documentation written for it yet, although the field names (and their values) are pretty straight-forward.

    This API allows you to request information about the sections of the Catechism and to search the text of the Catechism by word or Scripture reference.  In the near...

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  • USCCB Announces 'Browser-Based eBook' Catechism

    This morning, the USCCB announced the release of a new Catechism of the Catholic Church as an eBook. My hopes that this was finally true were dashed when I found two problems:

    1. The "Browser-Based eBook" is not an eBook—it's the same thing that's been available on the Vatican website for years, just with a search bar at the top and without a parchment background.
    2. The actual ePub Catechism is still $10.

    The ePub file costs very little (in terms of infrastructure) to download—probably a penny or less per download. The...

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