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• Dynamic Church 07 is almost here!

  Are you a Fellowship One customer, but you ask yourself whether your church is really using the system to its full potential? Have I got a deal for you! Many of our customers have been asking us to sponsor a users’ and developers’ conference Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:56 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Breaking News, Fellowship One, ChMS, Return on Ministry, Dynamic Church Conference

• Solution Selling includes educating the church on Best Practices

  Last night I received a call from the field from one of our Delivery Managers. For Fellowship Technologies, a Delivery Manager is a consultant who works with a church partner (customer) to assist them with their implementation of Fellowship One. The purpose Read More... Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:43 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, ChMS, Process, Assimilation, Return on Ministry

• Good Software Stewardship?

  Sometimes we come across a church that puts a halt to a software selection process because they come to the realization that they may not need a new church management software solution. Why? Because they find out that they are underutilizing what they Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:20 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, ChMS, Assimilation, Value, Return on Ministry

• What does your church management system have to do with your brand?

  When a church considers its brand, does it ever think about its church management system? Often, when a church thinks of its brand, it thinks about its outreach message—meaning the logo, web site, and marketing, but rarely does it consider its church Read More... Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:49 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, ChMS, Branding

• Is your church management system optional? (Part 2)

  A fundamental building block that will allow a church to better care for its people is better quality information. However, if the church’s ministries are allowed to NOT use the church management system and its underlying database of people, they Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:43 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, ChMS, Data Quality, Process

• Is your church management system optional?

  I have been working with churches and their church management systems for nearly three years and one of the things that I find interesting is the fact that for some churches the ministries use of the central database is optional! The reasons vary from: Read More... Posted Sunday, April 23, 2006 11:42 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, ChMS

• Is this your church without Fellowship One? Want to know what it can be?

  This is a great story by someone who evidently goes to a church without Fellowship One. It is a story about The Church with the T-Rex in its lobby. Would someone attending your church have a similar experience? Many times we are so familiar with our church Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:40 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS, Close the Back Door

• 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

• 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

• New Functionality... Reports 2.0

  Fellowship Technologies recently released our new reporting functionality we call Reports 2.0. Reports 2.0 is our foundational work that will help move Fellowship One reporting to a whole new level. This new release really leverages the power of AJAX Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:22 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS, SaaS, AJAX

• A Whole New Way . . . Software as a Service (SaaS)

  It appears that the vision and reality of SaaS (Software as a Service) has attracted the largest independent software vendor (ISV), SAP . SAP is a large enterprise application software company out of Germany that created a big craze in the 1990s and obtained Read More... Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 11:19 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS, SaaS

• A Whole New Way . . . Don’t Automate, Obliterate

  In the early 1990’s, Dr. Michael Hammer touched off an entire wave of reengineering work with his July 1990 Harvard Business Review article titled: Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate . There were many, many consulting practices Read More... Posted Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:18 AM by Jeff Hook | 1 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, ChMS, Process

• Milestone . . . 300 Churches and counting!

  We celebrated our 2nd birthday at the Creative Church Conference on and shortly thereafter signed our 300th church as a Fellowship One partner. January was a good month with the signing of a couple of large mega-churches (churches with over 6,000 in TWA) Read More... Posted Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:17 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS

• A Whole New Way . . . Improving Data Quality through Added Accessibility

  I have said it before, check out how many staff members in your church are really using your church management system. The more people who use it, the more up-to-date and relevant the information is and will be. I am amazed at the lack of ownership of Read More... Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:16 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS, Data Quality

• A whole new way...

  Even though we participate in more and more conferences every year, because of our heritage, C3 (Fellowship Church’s Creative Church Conference) is a big deal for Fellowship Technologies. We celebrate our founding, we get to see old friends and Read More... Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:14 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS