Training Labs from May 2009 Conference
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Kick-Start / Power Start Classes
Assimilation Tracking
Understand a process of managing assimilation and how you can track where a person is in their journey to becoming a full-time follower of Christ. Learn what reports you can use to measure your assimilation process. See how contacts, assignments, attendance and giving combine to allow you to measure assimilation.
Check-in Strategies
Are you using Check-in at your church? Come checkout all the ways our Check-in Application can be used to capture the knowledge of who is involved at your church. It's not just for kids; silly minister. It's easy and it's for everyone.
Contact Management
This is a hands on study of Contacts, from creation to close, within Fellowship One. Topics covered include; a) creating contact types, items, forms, and dispositions, b) streamlined routing of contacts, c) managing assigned contacts, d) transferring and closing contacts, e) adding, viewing, and editing contacts, and finally, use of the Vitals tab to track the progress of assigned contacts. Come and learn how to accelerate this powerful tool within your church!
Merge, manage, move, and maintain your database using best practices. Learn how to implement consistency in Fellowship One within your team.
With a new Groups model comes a new Groups Application for leaders and members of those groups to use. The WebLink Small Group Manager and Small Group Finder modules will one day be replaced by this new Groups Application. Come experience what is available today and glimpse the future.
Come review all of the features available in the Portal when defining Groups within the new 2.0 model. It's a completely different paradigm from the previous Small Groups model and represents the future of Groups in Fellowship One.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Volunteer pipeline in one hands on class. Learn how to configure volunteer applications, assign requirements to job opportunities and assign users to oversee assignments. See how people complete volunteer applications and then practice moving them through the different stages of pipeline.
Strengthen your brand and enhance the look and feel of your WebLink Event Registration forms using simple design elements and basic HTML. This session will include an introduction to HTML and CSS Style Sheets.
Learn how to create event registration forms that can be used to register for activities via your church web site. Discuss associating funds with your form for the purpose of collecting and managing registration fees.
Hands-on Training Labs
During the main conference you can choose from 40 different training opportunities. We have targeted the class content into one of three experience levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.
Hands-on Classes
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.
Students are quite an active bunch of people. Discuss configuring the most common youth activities from weekly worship services to lock-ins to summer camps. Attendance and involvement will be emphasized during this training.
Learn best practices in configuring and administering the Worship Service activities. You'll learn how to schedule a diverse group of volunteers from Hospitality to Worship/Creative Arts teams. Learn how to keep track of headcount and view trends over a period of time. Discover how to communicate with these key groups of volunteers.
Do you have a Childcare activity defined for every adult acitvity you host? Have they replicated throughout your F1 Ministires 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 that may change frequently.
Try your hand at building some complicated reports with Query Builder. Learn how to build statements and combine statements to build compound statements. Discover the different options that are available from Query Builder output results. Take it to the next level by finding reports that will do the hard work for you but still results in a group!
Understand a process of managing assimilation and how you can track where a person is in their journey to becoming a full-time follower of Christ. Learn what reports you can use to measure your assimilation process. See how contacts, assignments, attendance and giving combine to allow you to measure assimilation.
Are you considering using Check-in at your church? Come see the ease and power of creating a Check-in experience using your activities. Learn some of our best practices when setting up Check-in for your events. Self and Assisted Check-in are both presented.
How do I communicate with my church using Fellowship One? Learn about the different communication tools in Fellowship One. Understand the process for setting up church wide emails and communicating to ministry specific groups. Learn about creating a church communication policy so you do not send unwanted email to your congregation.
This is a hands on study of Contacts, from creation to close within Fellowship One. Topics covered include: a) creating contact types, items, forms, and dispositions, b) streamlined routing of contacts, c) managing assigned contacts, d) transferring and closing contacts, e) adding, viewing, and editing contacts, and finally, use of the Vitals tab to track the progress of assigned contacts. Come and learn how to accelerate this powerful tool within your church!
Learn the value of Contacts and Individual Notes in Fellowship One. See how shared and private note types can impact your church to foster better communication between a church and its attendees. Learn how Contacts can become an essential tool to help track people you are ministering to.
Learn how to modify the default contribution statement styles to add images, move comment blocks, and modify contribution tables. This class will teach you some very basic XSL to help you understand the default styles and how you can modify them to create your own.
Discover all the different ways to add contribution information to Fellowship One. Get the insider tips and best practices for administering contributions. Learn how to quickly find contribution information, run statistical reports, and manage household/organization contribution information. Learn about pledge drives and pledge card best practices.
Learn how to create event registration forms that can be used to register for activities via your church web site. Discuss associating funds with your form for the purpose of collecting and managing registration fees.
Groups 2.0 Application
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With a new Groups model comes a new Groups Application for leaders and members of those groups to use. The WebLink Small Group Manager and Small Group Finder modules will one day be replaced by this new Groups Application. Come experience what is available today and glimpse the future. Identical classes are offered on Thursday and Friday.
Come review all of the features available in Fellowship One when defining Groups within the new 2.0 model. It's a completely different paradigm from the previous Small Groups model and represents the future of Groups in Fellowship One.
Struggle with your weekly reporting? Join us as we show you how to make reporting in Fellowship One as easy as clicking a button. Learn how to find the report you want, set report filters and output types and save reports to your library.
Ever wondered where all of those pesky duplicate individuals come from? Maybe you already know where they come from, but you’d like the best way to manage them? This Hands-On Lab is perfect for you! As we’ll work through the best practices of managing duplicates using the Duplicate Finder & Merge Individual tools along with the Report Library.
Configure and discuss how to use the various features of Fellowship One to support the needs of a multi-campus church. Learn how to manage security, activities, contact cards, contributions, attributes, statuses and reporting. Although Fellowship One doesn't have the concept of campus, you'll learn how to make it perform in a very workable manner in your multi-campus environment.
Learn how to correctly enter new data into Fellowship One, how to manage existing people data, and how to search for people in the database.
In this four hour comprehensive session, you will learn how to manage small groups from top to bottom. Learn how to create the activity, schedules, RLC’s, and how to utilize your small group leaders to track attendance for you, and which reports are most valuable for tracking small groups.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Volunteer Pipeline in one hands on class. Learn how to configure volunteer applications, assign requirements to job opportunities and assign users to oversee applicants. See how people complete volunteer applications and then practice moving them through the different stages of pipeline.
Strengthen your brand and enhance the look and feel of your WebLink Event Registration forms using simple design elements and basic HTML. This session will include an introduction to HTML and CSS Style Sheets.
Want to provide tools to reach people for Christ on the World Wide Web, but think you aren't techie enough: this is the class for you! No HTML required! Learn the basics of WebLink from creating WebLink enabled activities to basic configuration of links and hyperlink buttons for non-techies.