Breakout sessions from May 2009 Conference
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- Fellowship One Application
- Process Improvements
- Fellowship One Adoption
- Inside Fellowship Tech
- Development Track
There will be a wide range of topics including Fellowship One best practices, beginner, intermediate, and advanced uses of Fellowship One, partner solutions, and much more. Session speakers will consist of Fellowship Technologies’ staff, product experts from leading churches, and business partners.
For Developers Only
If you develop applications for your church as a staff member or volunteer, or you are a vendor / business partner interested in integrating your application with Fellowship One, then we have a Development Track specifically for you, click here to learn more.
Fellowship One Application
Getting Started
Household Individual
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Interested in learning how to read an individual or household profile? If so, this session is for you. Join us as we dig into each widget on the household/individual views and learn to leverage them like a pro.
Event Management 101
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An essential overview of how to set up activities and events for your church. We’ll cover how the activity setup affects other aspects of FellowshipOne like Small Groups, the Involvement Grid in the new Individual view, Check-in, Assignments/Attendance and even Contacts
Check-in 101
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Do you want to rapidly capture the attendance of children, youth, volunteers and many others? If so, then this session is for you! Come learn the basics of how to quickly setup Check-in. You will understand ways to trim your hardware cost as you gather insight on who is showing up. One of our experienced churches will walk through the Volunteer-assisted Check-in process. Then we will explore the Self Check-in process and show the reporting possibilities once attendance has been captured. We will conclude with a Q & A panel.
Contributions Management
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During this session, Bob will discuss best practices that make processing contributions more efficient and accurate. Learn how to sort contributions, process batches, and ergonomically configure your desktop to make the most of your contributions processing time.
People Reporting
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Which visitors are now attendees? Which attendees are now members? Should I use a contact item, attendance, or an individual attribute to track first time visitors? In this session we will discuss the best strategy for tracking your people and which reports to use to maximize your assimilation process.
Financial Reporting
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With so many report options it can sometimes be confusing as to what is the best report to run for different situations. Let us guide you through the best reporting choices for giving. This will include batch auditing, pledge drives, contribution statements and many more. He will also discuss how to view new online contributors, upcoming contributions for date range, pending transactions that have been processed through the payment gateway versus those that have been posted to your merchant account
More than Just a Rolodex
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Does your pastoral staff treat Fellowship One like a big Rolodex leaving the more detailed work to computer loving, spreadsheet-building, techie staff? The most incredible, useful, and church-changing things lay untapped in Fellowship One. Join Christiaan as he shares tips on how to involve pastoral teams with F1, dispel F1 myths and misconceptions and identify “wins” that define why a church should fully adopt and use F1. Together, we can stop the Rolodex effect and change pastoral staff into the biggest F1 fanboys (and girls)!
Pastors: What Can I Do in 3 Clicks?
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Learn how you can leverage some very basic components of F1 without getting buried. This session will review notes, groups, contacts, and the reports that support them.
Going Deeper
Check-in: 201
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Dive in deep and find out how you can leverage self Check-in, use themes, and build processes that keep the line moving and experience enjoyable.
Volunteer Pipeline
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It begins with a member trying to find out a little more about the volunteer opportunities available and ends with a volunteer staffing assignment. In this session we examine every stage of the Volunteer Pipeline including how to collect the volunteer interest(s), how to ensure this information is forwarded to the right staff members, how automated background checks work, and ultimately how people are established as part of your volunteer force in Fellowship One. Each step of the pipeline is explained and examined in this powerful staffing tool.
Small Groups 1.0
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While "Groups 2.0" is the preferred solution, Groups 1.0 still includes a feature or two that won't be available in the new application until later this year. Come to this session to find out not only how to leverage version 1, but also the differences that currently exist between the two.
F1 has a new Groups solution. Attend this session to see what new features are currently available to F1 churches.
Group Email
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Communicating with class through group email makes a difference. Church attendees live in a world of communication via email and the web. They are used to seeing information and making decisions at a time that is best for them. Effective email communication is one solid way to reach them. Good communication involves targeting the right audience with a well articulated message in an attractive formatted email. Good attendee relations involve respecting their privacy and effectively handling their request to subscribe or unsubscribe. This presentation equips the audience to implement more effective attendee communications in their church.
Contact Management
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Contacts come in many different forms: first time visitor cards, prayer requests, communication cards, bulletins, phone contacts and spiritual decisions. Each contact inquiry represents an opportunity for appropriate ministry action. Some of these involve a series of action steps among multiple staff in order to provide a seamless response. Join us as we illustrate the best practices for organizing your contact forms and contact items to provide a robust contact management work flow for your church.
Activity Management: Missions
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Checklists, checklists, checklists! Learn how to create Mission Trips activities within Fellowship One effectively. This training session will ensure that everything will be tracked for a successful Mission Trip. Also, learn how to receive gifts for Mission Trips by using Online Giving.
Activity Management: Childcare
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Do you have a Childcare activity defined for every adult activity you host? Have they replicated throughout your F1 Ministries like fire ants in Texas? Get them under control! Come see an innovative approach to create a manageable, streamlined Check-In process when providing Childcare to multiple adult activities, simultaneously, that may change from day to day. Using this approach, you will be able to track the expected and actual childcare demand from each activity being supported. How great is that!
Activity Management: Students
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Learn how to manage your Student Activities in Fellowship One. Let’s face it… teens are a different animal and need their very own session to tame this wild side of ministry!
Online Payment Processing
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Be ahead of the game when it is time to setup your Fellowship One Payment Gateway! This class will answer the most common questions that arise during the setup process as well as highlight potential roadblocks along the way. Whether you are processing Online Payments through an outside company, or you have never worked with Online Payments before, this class is instrumental in assuring a smooth Fellowship One Payment Gateway setup
Online Giving
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Do you wish you could offer online giving but are hesitant to rollout the service to your congregation? Let us show you the power of online giving and how it can impact your church. Learn how to use reports to show your leadership team the power of giving schedules to affect the bottom line. Learn methods to address arguments against online giving and how to engage your leadership team to promote scheduled giving.
Online Payment Processing Reconciliation with F1
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Let us help you streamline your approach to reconciling Fellowship One online payments. We will focus on the following areas: tracking your transactions, running reports in Fellowship One and Tips/Tricks for searching in CyberSource and ProfitStars
Pledge Drives
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Join Brian Vinson as he explores some creative solutions to Pledge Drives in Fellowship One addressing common misunderstandings and creative ways to work around limitations. He will address reporting and how to analyze / understand your data so you can get the most out of your Pledge Drive.
Event Registration and Forms
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Come join us and learn how to create some incredibly cool and exciting event registration forms that can be used via your church web site. This session will include creating a form, associating funds for payment, creating a participant assignment, auto reply email and inserting groovy graphics. When you leave you should be equipped to create WebLink Registration Forms that you can be proud of.
Extending your knowledge
Multi-Campus Strategies
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Multi- Campus does not have to mean multi-headaches! While implementing many top 100 churches, we have developed several strategies and techniques to manage multiple campuses within a single Fellowship One database. Yes, It can be done effectively! Jeff will walk you through the various opportunities and challenges using these strategies.
Puppetology 101
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Join Brian as it adds an element of fun to your Children's outreach programs through the dynamic use of puppets. It is a fun session to lighten your load, make you laugh and learn how to be more creative in your presentations
Church Plants
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The successful farmer will tell you one of the key stages in plant growth is cultivating the soil. What’s true in farming is also true in the local church. To cultivate a new community you need prayer, infrastructure and tools to capture details where you cultivate. Seminary prepares you for preaching and teaching a timeless gospel but in this information age very few places equip you with the tools needed for effective cultivation? Errol Coner, ordained pastor, church planter and sales consultant for Fellowship Technologies will walk through ways to equip your staff/volunteers and understand your congregation. He will also discuss the common pitfalls that cause high staff turnover in many church plants.
Check-in: Creative uses
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Does your church meet in a facility with no or unreliable Internet access? Are you interested in how you can leverage the check-in machine beyond just attendance? Join us as we explore some creative ways you can expand your vision for the possible.
Process Improvements
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Fellowship One Champions
Training Volunteers
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You have an effective tool for church management in Fellowship One, but how do you transfer the knowledge of how to use it to your volunteers? Teaching adults can be tricky. Join us as we examine the ways adults learn and how you can be an effective trainer for your church.
Effectively Managing F1
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When each ministry functions as its own separate entity with little or no regard for the larger entity (the church) as a whole, you have a group of silos rather than a unified team. Patrick Lencioni's book Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars proposes that one way to destroy silos is to build cross functional or in the case of churches cross ministry teams. The Fellowship One Champion Team and the Data Integrity Teams have completely different areas of focus but both teams work together to bridge the gap between ministries and bring a common approach to Fellowship One. Learn how to implement cross ministry teams at your church in this exciting session.
The Day After Implementation
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After an implementation, it is easy to get lax about F1. However, it is very important to keep working with the system and with the staff to make the best use of the system. The keys to making the most of F1 is to stay connected with each ministry and try to determine how F1 can help each activity. Don't be afraid to offer help and advice to ministries. Also, keep your staff and Power Users up to date on the latest features of F1, and listen to their concerns with an open mind. By working together, you can maximize F1's usage in no time!
Building Successful Process
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Don't let your attendees fall through the cracks! Learn how to define workflow processes to more effectively manage the rich features of Fellowship One.
What's Hot and What's Coming
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Each week for over 12 years, Steve Hewitt has shared a segment on PrimeTime America radio, keeping listeners informed on the latest developments in technology, specifically related to ministry. In this session, Steve will share not only what’s hot now, but will give you important insight into what’s being developed for use later this year, or in the next couple of years. Come learn what others are using to expand and enhance their ministry.
Integrated Background Checks
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Join the President and CEO of SecureSearch (an Integrated Solution Provider and Partner), Steve Durie, as he reviews all the options churches have when looking into protecting the children and youth in their care. He will discuss the differences between types of searches and the pro's and con's of each. He will cover what level of diligence is necessary for volunteers and staff member. Steve will include information on how the integrated process works, consent forms, compliance to Federal laws, insurance trends, adverse action policies, along with statistics of violent offenders.
Ministry Moments
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Whether you are setting up a block party, vacation Bible school or a women's retreat you can use Fellowship One to create ministry opportunities in your church and community. Learn how to use the best operational tools to minister to event attendees.
Pastors
Assimilation Tracking
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Do you ever wonder what you want your congregation to become? Have you spent time thinking about what you want your congregation to do? Do you know if your congregation is living your church’s vision or mission? Join us as we take a look into FellowshipOne to see how attributes , contact items, assignments, attendance, and giving help you discover if your congregation is moving toward being full-time followers of Christ.
Executive Reporting
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Pastors and church leadership need information in order to make decisions. In many cases, they don't ask for information because they don't know what information is available. Learn how you as a Fellowship One user or administrator can help your leadership by feeding them information. Join us as we share how to dig deep into the details, summarize the information and produce meaningful reports that leaders can absorb quickly.
Need More Space, but can't find it?
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Attendance up, but giving down? You need more space, but can't afford it? Come to this panel presentation as we meet with churches who have struggled with this and may have some advice you can use
Tools to Reach the Unreachable
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FT has released a RESTful API. Attend this session to see a demonstration of a ministry application developed using this API.
Project Management with Scrum
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Are your projects always behind? Do you struggle with being 80% complete 90% of the time? Check out what Google, Microsoft and 1000's of successful companies including FT know that will dramatically improve your project management… quit stressing about VBS or your new website and join the revolution. Lance Dacy, Director of Project Management helps you understand managing complex projects with Agile: Scrum. This simple framework will help you estimate and plan release dates for any project as well as create a fun environment for your team. Visibility, transparency, and removal of impediments are the keys to great project management, come learn how to do it with agility.
Case Study: The Great Turnaround
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When Cindy Slay was at her wits end and ready to throw in the towel with Fellowship One, she took a step back and gave it one more shot! Find out what she did to change her heart and motivate her Church toward the software.
Going Green with F1
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The church has gone almost 100% paperless thanks to Fellowship One. All contacts, volunteer forms, background checks, etc. are housed in Fellowship One. The old way was paper based communication/contact cards for everything. Today’s way is all Fellowship One including manned kiosks in the lobbies where high touch helpers assist attendees with registrations, volunteer applications, and contact requests.
F1 Super Team
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To keep from leaving your church in a lurch, don't create a single point of failure for your staff. This session will teach you how to create, fertilize, and grow a healthy Fellowship One Champion team.
Innovation and the Church
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Join Greg as he talks about how innovation assists the church in reaching more people for Christ!
Turning Volunteers into Successful Leaders
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How can we empower leaders instead of recruit volunteers? Everyone is born to lead at some level, but not everyone is a born leader. The obvious issue that we contend with in the church today is getting leaders to step forward and commit. We will speak to the many reasons why volunteers tend to vanish as the requirements and tasks become more time consuming and provide insight on how to make and empower leaders instead of just finding volunteers.
Creating a Volunteer Central room
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It so important to treat your volunteers like they are a part of your team and what better way to do that than to have a central meeting location? You might think you don't have enough space but time and time again we have seen that dedicated space makes dedicated volunteers.
Ministry Dashboard
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How are your ministries doing? With limited resources you need to make sure you are a good steward of the money God has given you by finding the best return on ministry. This session will dive into a dashboard report that will help you do exactly that.
LifeChurch.tv
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Come check out the latest and greatest this visionary church has to offer
Fund Raising
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Many churches, pastors and committees enter the building process overwhelmed and under prepared. Learn how Fellowship One can make your capital campaign a little less "paign-ful!" Hear what works and what hasn't for an outreach ministry that needs to raise anywhere from $1,000 to a cool million!
Leading the Rebellion
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How do innovative ideas become reality? Between procedure, politics, and other pushback, change requires a lot more than a good prototype or story. Join Stephen Anderson, nationally renowned for helping large companies like Frito-Lay, Nokia, and Chesapeake Energy create valuable customer experiences by examining what it took to make one of the most influential – and disruptive – films of all time: the original Star Wars movie
Adoption
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Regional User Groups
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Learn how to connect to a Regional User Group (RUG). RUG's provide a way for you to share information and experiences with other Fellowship One Users in a particular area of the country.
F1 Health Check-up: Personalized Account Review
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Have you ever wondered if you were using Fellowship One to it's fullest potential? This session will demonstrate how to maximize Fellowship One usage through a Personalized Account Review.
Experience Community
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Build your network, get answers to tough questions, ask for an enhancement, and learn best practices through the F1 experience site. This session will focus on how leverage this powerful tool to get the most out of your experience with F1.
Fellowship One Education
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Ever wonder where you can learn more about Fellowship One like how it works and how other churches are using it? Do you ever wonder how to get new staff and volunteers up to speed quickly? Join us in this informative session detailing all the education resources available to you as well as quick ways to document how your church uses Fellowship One.
Ask the Expert: Support
open Q&A with the Support team
Ask the Expert: Delivery
open Q&A with the Delivery team
Ask the Expert: Reporting
open Q&A with the Reporting team
How to Gain Wider Adoption
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What are some ways you can encourage a wider adoption of Fellowship One at your church? This session focuses on how to win over stubborn or lagging departments through problem solving that comes from utilizing Fellowship One on a daily basis. Hear real-world examples of how Fellowship One has taken our Churches to the next level of efficient and effective ministry. Learn how group trainings and manuals will empower your staff and volunteers in their use of Fellowship One.
Technology
Demo and show workings of an application developed in MVC utilizing F1's RESTful API
Demo and show workings of an application developed for iPhone utilizing F1's RESTful API
Demo and show workings of an application developed in Expression utilizing F1's RESTful API
Demo and show workings of an application developed with Ruby on Rails utilizing F1's RESTful API
RESTful Lab
Attendees can interact with developers directly as they enhance the 4 apps modeled in the previous sessions
Data Exchange API
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Integrating Fellowship One Weblink to your existing website can be as simple as adding one line of Javascript or as complex as calling Data Exchange, Fellowship One's XML-based API. The method you choose will be based on your specific needs, design goals and skill level. This session will review the pros and cons of the alternative approaches, important design considerations and best practices and review some real world examples.
Website Overhaul Tips
Is your website as good as it could be? Join this panel of design experts as they critique your site live and give you the good, bad, and ugly. Thick skin is a pre-requisite.
IT on a Budget
Does the thought of IT conjure up dollar signs? Join us as we discuss how to leverage what you already have and consider some best practices whenever you do buy that next piece of hardware.
How to Deploy Check-In Stations
Learn how to efficiently deploy and secure a large number of check-in stations. Use Active Directory and Group Policy to deploy, secure, and maintain a consistent user experience for all of your check-in stations.
Network Infrastructure Guidance
Learn concepts necessary to operate and maintain network infrastructures. Basic knowledge of network concepts are recommended.
Inside Fellowship Tech
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Data and Performance Management
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Get a behind the scenes look at where and how we manage your data; includes data center, backups, and how we monitor usage
Explanation of Editions
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Are you using everything your paying for? Are you wondering what else is available? Come find out if an upgrade or downgrade will help you and your situation.
Roadmap: Groups 2.0
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FT will continue to develop new Groups functionality. Attend this session to see what new features will be added this year.
Roadmap: Ministry 2.0
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FT plans to enhance Activity Management. Attend this session to see the proposed enhancements.