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March 2006 - Posts

• Modifying Packaged Software – Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!

  In my last blog, I commented about the difficulty of a church writing its own software. In my humble opinion, an even worst business practice than a church writing its own software is modifying a software package that was designed to support another industry Read More... Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:38 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS

• Acceptable insanity?

  One of the things that we have encountered as we implement some churches is their lack of wanting to change the way they “do church,” yet wanting to experience different results. I participated in a seminar once that characterized such behavior Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:45 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Fellowship Technologies, Change Management

• Writing Your Own Church Management Software – Is it really a good idea?

  I am always skeptical of a church that even contemplates writing its own Church Management System (ChMS). In fact, even before I was involved with the spin out of what was known as Switch at the time from Fellowship Church, I questioned the church’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:25 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS