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Fellowship Tech Starts Blog

I want to welcome the great folks at Fellowship Technologies to the blogosphere community.  If you have not had an opportunity to check out Fellowship Technologies' product, I encourage you to visit the following sites as listed on their blog.

• Fellowship Technologies:  This is their corporate site that explains more about FellowshipOne.
• Dynamic-Church:  This is a site where you can experience how FellowshipOne interacts with a church web site.
• Close the Back Door:  This is a great site that puts in the open the needs and frustrations of church staff, leadership, members, attenders, and guests.

Church Data On the Go

No matter what the size of your church, I am sure you have been away from the office and needed a phone number or address of a member or prospect.  Sure, some CMS solutions (church management software) allow you to export the address book where you can then import it into your Outlook which then synchronizes with your PDA such as a (Palm or Pocket OS) device.

The problem with that is you have to remember to do this export/import/synch dance often in order to keep your data from becoming out of date.  However, even if you do this every morning, you will not have current information that afternoon.

There is a solution...
Fellowship One includes Mobile Access.  This allows you to use any HTML compatible mobile phone or PDA.  So you can have access to the most current data anywhere, anytime.

Learn more about this Fellowship One feature by clicking here.

Cost of Technology vs Cost of Ministry

Terry Storch placed a trackback to my post about Preparing for FellowshipOne that has created some great posts about the cost involved.  I would like to add my two cents to the conversation as I think it goes beyond the cost of F1 to the cost of good technology in general....