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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...
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...
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...
A Whole New Way . . . Software as a Service (SaaS)
27 February 06 11:19 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
A Whole New Way . . . Don’t Automate, Obliterate
12 February 06 11:18 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
Milestone . . . 300 Churches and counting!
11 February 06 11:17 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
A Whole New Way . . . Improving Data Quality through Added Accessibility
02 February 06 11:16 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
A whole new way...
26 January 06 11:14 AM | Jeff Hook | 0 Comments   
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...
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