Mark Holmgren
Mark Holmgren
Mark Holmgren Consulting
Mark Holmgren is committed to helping non profit organizations and local governments build capacities for new visions. Mark does this through the provision of custom designed strategic services that fit an organization's culture as well as its aspirations.
About Strategic Dialogue
Talking about the future direction an organization should take is a challenge at the best of times. Figuring out what to do tomorrow involves...
Social Media Resources
Our work in social media strategy development and social media implementation has helped us come across a wide set of resources. This is just...
The Power of the Flash Mob
Wow, this really moved me. We need more of this kind of energy in our community. Thanks to Ken Chapman for posting this on his...
Thinking about Progress
I am glad to see so much attention being paid by many community groups to addressing poverty. The Vibrant Communities initiative across the country...
The Open Office Experiment
Not long ago I wrote I was going to see if Open Office, a free opensource package similar to Microsoft Office, could serve as...
Alternatives to Microsoft Office?
I have been switching over from an old laptop to a new one. I decided not to load Microsoft Office on my new laptop...
Tweet talking the Hippo
My first stab at this was going on too long. The short set-up to the story is this: we switched to Telus from Shaw...
Community Transformation, Not Just Sector Change
There is a growing body of information about the trends and forces facing non-profit organizations and even more opinions on how the sector needs...
Thoughts about the Imagine Canada Forum
<got home a bit ago after taking in the Imagine Canada Forum here in Edmonton. I estimate 80, maybe a hundred folks attended, so...
Use Twitter to Communicate with Staff
Nearly everyone knows about Twitter, but its uses are still be explored. Companies use it to market and sell products and services; some use...
Fundraising Innovations (but so much more than that)
I spend a fair amount of my “free” time looking into trends that are and will be impacting the nonprofit sector. The kind of...
Degrees of social interaction
I came across an interesting blog posting on social interaction and the concept of a business becoming a social business. Max Lieberman writes: Here...