My blog, Accelerating the Dynamic Church, has moved to a new location, please update your bookmarks and feed readers. The new location is http://experience.fellowshipone.com/blogs/dynamic_church/default.aspx My latest blog entry, What stops a church from fully Experiencing Fellowship One?, is available at the new location. - jhook

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 and so this year we are. It is being held May 17-19 in Frisco, Texas (just north of Dallas). We ...

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 of the typical mega-church in America.   The comment refers to the fact that many ...

I'm in the process of converting our portal (Fellowship One) site template to a standards-based css layout. Concise, simple and semantic markup is my goal. Recently I had a "duh" moment while pondering the benefits of css. A lot to love.. There is a lot to love about css: seperation of content and ...

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 conference in Chicago, Jeff Pelletier and I conducted a break-out workshop about ...

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 and the experience that we have in it that we do not take into account the experience of ...

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 or feature set.  This is just a bad idea, period.  I remember trying to do ...

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 efforts of writing its own software.  It is a complex and expensive ...

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 so that the screens do not refresh when reporting parameters are changed or ...

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 a good majority of commercial America to consolidate its data needs under a single ...