Official Fellowship Technologies Blog

Best Practice Guides added to the Experience F1 site

2008-11-10T02:35:00Z

We're pleased to announce a new area for Best Practices on the Experience.FellowshipOne.com community site. On this new tab you will find a listing of published Fellowship One Best Practice guides. Additionally, there are links to the blog posts focused on best practices and all of the session materials from the Dynamic Church 08 User Conference. Be sure to take advantage of these free resources to increase your effective usage of Fellowship One.

We have also slimmed down the list of blogs to just three. We want to make it as simple as possible to find the information you're seeking. The best way to keep up to date is to use a feed reader (i.e., Google Reader or Bloglines) and subscribe to the feeds.

Here is a list of our blog feeds (Watch this video which explains RSS feeds in plain english)

Summary feed for all three blogs

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Official Fellowship Technologies Blog - official company news and announcements
Intelligent Design - Fellowship One product information
Delivering Change - Best practices and stories from our delivery and implementation team

You can also stay in touch by following us on Twitter at one of the following addresses:

ExperienceF1 - Summary Twitter feed for the blogs on this site
F1ACE - Advocates for the Customer Experience
F1ProductMgmt - Fellowship One Product Management team
F1Dev - Fellowship One Product Development team

If you aren't sure what Twitter is, don't worry, watch this video which explains Twitter in plain english.

Effectively utilizing Fellowship One within your Church

2008-10-01T23:56:00Z

We’re EXCITED to bring you some news from within Fellowship Technologies!

We like to say “We’re Changing the World by Changing the Church World.” As a result, we’re often bringing process and technology changes to our partner churches to enhance their ability to manage their data. Fellowship Technologies is no different. In order to continue to grow, to formulate new ideas, and serve our customers with excellence, we must also embrace change. Progress is change!

Effective October 1, 2008, we are making a few organizational changes to help us better serve our church partners. The centerpiece of the changes is the formation of a new organization focused on Customer Effectiveness and a new team aptly named Customer Experience. The focus of this new organization is to increase the effective use of Fellowship One within our partner churches.

The Customer Effectiveness organization will be led by Curtis Simmons. Within Customer Effectiveness will be four teams:

Technology Operations led by Tim Lytle – The focus of this team is security, scalability, reliability, and performance of both our internal and production environments. A solid and reliable infrastructure is the foundation for a positive customer experience with Fellowship One.
Customer Support led by Patrick Trela – The focus of this team is to provide an unparalleled level of support excellence to our customers for our products, our technology, and our payment processing solutions.
Reporting Solutions led by Brian Vinson – This team is focused on effectively leveraging the data collected within Fellowship One through reporting solutions.
Customer Experience led by Curtis Harris – The charter for this new team is to be Advocates of the Customer Experience (ACE) measured by the effective use of Fellowship One. This team will be responsible for everything from education, documentation, Regional User Groups, the Experience site, proactive customer care, the Dynamic Church Conference, etc. We are very excited to have such a strong team focused solely on delighting our customers. The Customer Experience team will be rolling out a number of new announcements, processes, and tools over the coming weeks and months, so stay tuned!

We believe this new organization, and particularly the Customer Experience team, is unique within the Church Management Software market; innovation can take many forms, not just within the product. We’re confident that these changes, coupled with some exciting new product developments on the horizon, will bring a new level of product and services to our customers.

God bless,

Curtis Simmons
Senior Vice President
Operations, Customer Effectiveness, & Marketing

Meaningful Careers with Fellowship Technologies

2008-09-20T20:02:00Z

Are you searching for a career with true meaning? A job that allows you to use your God given talents to empower the local church through advanced technology? A job where everyone you work with shares your passion, drive, and intense work ethic while keeping in check the priorities of God and Family before work.

If so then please review the current list of job openings. And if there isn't a current opening that fits your talents you're welcome to contact us anyway. We are always looking for top talent to add to our already strong team.

Please send inquiries and resumés to careers@fellowshiptech.com.

You can't improve what you don't measure

2008-09-19T23:26:00Z

Businesses track many different metrics, such as Return on Investment (ROI), to measure their success. Churches should also track metrics to help determine which ministries, activities, and efforts are working well and which are not. Measuring the results, and listening to the needs of the congregation, can lead to invaluable insights on how to improve and refine ministry efforts. But what sort of metrics should be tracked and how?

Check out our new marketing site to learn more --> www.ReturnOnMinistry.com

Dynamic Church Conference scheduled for May 13 - 15, 2009

2008-09-11T15:15:00Z

Registration is now open for Fellowship Technologies' Dynamic Church Conference in 2009. The conference is for customers and prospects of Fellowship One, the fastest growing 100% web-based church management software on the market. The conference will be held May 13 - 15, 2009 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Frisco, TX.

We've made a number of improvements over last year. Most notably is that the pre-conference will be on Wednesday and the main conference will be held on Thursday and Friday. This time we're blessed to have Kem Meyer, Communications Director at Granger Community Church, provide the guest keynote address.

Visit www.DynamicChurchConference.com to learn more and register now.

Call for Presentations

Are you an expert in one or more areas of Fellowship One? Do you have some best practices you would like to teach to others? Are you a church or lay leader with a valuable message to share? Then we would love to have you present during one of the 72 sessions offered at the 2009 conference.

Click here to submit your presentation topic and biography. We will contact you if your topic is selected.

Sponsors and Exhibitors

Sponsorship is a great opportunity offered to ministry product and service providers at the Dynamic Church Conference. Sponsorship says that you are a partner with the vision of Fellowship Technologies – to empower the local church to effectively care for people, efficiently manage resources and enable real growth. We offer many different partner and sponsorship levels. If you are an existing Fellowship Technologies' business partner, or interested in becoming one, and are interested in some level of sponsorship of the Dynamic Church Conference please contact us at DynamicChurch09@fellowshiptech.com.

Seeking IT Pro with Passion for Tech and Local Church

2008-07-01T03:02:00Z

Fellowship Technologies is currently seeking an IT professional with passion for technology and the local church. Click here for a detailed description of the role and experience required. Please pass along if you know someone.

Please send inquiries and qualified resumés to careers@fellowshiptech.com.

New features added to Experience Fellowship One

2008-05-10T14:08:00Z

In case you haven't noticed there are two new tabs on the Experience.FellowshipOne.com site. To access these new features you need to be logged in with your Fellowship One username, password, and churchcode.

The first new tab is labeled DEVELOPERS. On this tab you will find some exciting news about our new RESTful API which is under development. Attendees of our Dynamic Church Conference will get a sneak peek into this powerful new way to access Fellowship One and extend it's core features. In addition, you will also find documentation and code examples for our existing XML-based API that we call Data Exchange. Don't under-estimate it's power, we have many churches and partners leveraging Data Exchange on a daily basis.

The second new tab is labeled STATUS. On this tab you can see our current system status and receive information in the event that an issue arises. It also displays the total page loads and average page render time for the past 30 days. We have also added a tool where you can test your Internet connection speed to/from our data center which hosts Fellowship One.

Please take a moment to check out these new features, we hope that they enhance your experience with Fellowship One!

Dynamic Church 2008 – Registration is now open!

2007-11-17T15:17:00Z

Registration is now open for our 2nd annual user and developer conference - Dynamic Church 2008! The conference will be held May 15 - 17, 2008 in Dallas, Texas at the Embassy Suites Hotel & Frisco Conference Center.

Dynamic Church 2008 will provide over 100 different opportunities to learn how to fully utilize the power of Fellowship One, the fastest growing, web-based, enterprise Church Management System on the market today.

You spoke and we listened. This year’s conference will be bigger and better! Some of the changes are:

An optional pre-conference with six different, in-depth, personalized training classes
60% more sessions across six different tracks, each clearly delineated between Beginner and Advanced user levels
50% more training classes, each clearly delineated between Beginner and Advanced user levels
Dedicated Q&A time we call 'Ask the Experts' with staff of Fellowship Technologies
Free wireless Internet throughout the conference facilities
Free 2 hour live worship concert featuring Lincoln Brewster
And much, much more!

Click here to learn more and register now!