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Dynamic Church 07 is almost here!
10 April 07 09:56 PM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
Solution Selling includes educating the church on Best Practices
30 November 06 12:43 PM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
Good Software Stewardship?
28 November 06 03:20 PM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
IT Headcount – How “loaded” is your team?
27 September 06 08:18 PM | Jeff Hook | 1 Comments   
I recently returned from a lunch with the head of IT for a mega-church here in Dallas, who also happens to be one of our customers. One of his parting comments was one I have heard him say several times before about the size of his IT staff versus that Read More...
Cost Considerations – Part 3: Value
12 September 06 09:09 PM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
In part 3 of my 3 part series on software cost consideration I will address the value-based pricing concept and explore why the value that the software provides is more important than the out-of-pocket direct costs, or for that matter, the overall Total Read More...
Cost Considerations – Part 2: TCO – Total Cost of Ownership
07 September 06 08:07 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
In part 2 of my 3 part series on software cost consideration I will address the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept and why the price of software itself, whether it is a SaaS (Software as a Service) or of the client-server flavor, is just a portion Read More...
Cost Considerations – Part 1: What does my monthly cost include?
28 August 06 08:35 PM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
This blog entry is the first of three planned blog entries concerning Fellowship One pricing. Subsequent entries will address the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept and a look at the Value-based Pricing (VBP) concept of software. At the recent NACBA Read More...
What does your church management system have to do with your brand?
29 June 06 11:49 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
Queuing Theory at Check-in
21 June 06 11:48 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
After recently watching several churches modify their process for children’s check-in to accommodate our check-in module, it occurred to me how much “queuing theory” comes into play. How a church establishes its check-in queue can make Read More...
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Is your church management system optional? (Part 2)
26 April 06 11:43 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
Is your church management system optional?
23 April 06 11:42 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
Is this your church without Fellowship One? Want to know what it can be?
05 April 06 11:40 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
Modifying Packaged Software – Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!
30 March 06 11:38 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
Writing Your Own Church Management Software – Is it really a good idea?
22 March 06 11:25 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
New Functionality... Reports 2.0
28 February 06 11:22 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
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