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• Change or Die?

  We have seen over and over that the biggest hurdle to embracing the real value of better information systems in churches is change management, or should I say the lack thereof? Amongst us church management software vendors, it is even a point of occasional Read More... Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 10:35 AM by jhook | 2 Comments | Filed under: Fellowship One, Change, Process, Change Management, Effectiveness, Leadership

• What stops a church from fully Experiencing Fellowship One?

  As I write this blog entry for our new community site, I contemplated the above question: What stops a church from fully experiencing Fellowship One ? There are many different answers for the various customer situations ranging from 1) lack of leadership Read More... Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:29 PM by jhook | 7 Comments | Filed under: Fellowship One, Change, Process, Change Management

• 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

• IT Headcount – How “loaded” is your team?

  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... Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:18 PM by Jeff Hook | 1 Comments | Filed under: Fellowship One, ChMS, SaaS, IT Staffing

• Cost Considerations – Part 1: What does my monthly cost include?

  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... Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 8:35 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Fellowship One, ChMS, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership

• 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

• 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

• Fellowship Technologies is two years old!

  Well, it is that time of year again – time for the C3 Conference at Fellowship Church. It also the time of year that we celebrate the founding of our company! I want to thank all of our customers for their on-going support during these past two Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:13 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS

• Why Buy Fellowship One?

  Since the New Year is upon us, I thought I’d use this blog entry to answer a question I get quite frequently - why do churches buy Fellowship One? A church buys Fellowship One for reasons that are specific to that church. It is really about value Read More... Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:12 AM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Fellowship One, ChMS