Mark Holmgren Consulting is partnering with Social Media Tools and iautomate to design, build, and help support web projects for nonprofit organizations. Our partnership's goal is to help nonprofits build dynamic websites integrated with social media and supported by back end databases and content management. Services available include:

• Developing a web presence strategy that ties your web activities to your overall organizational, marketing & communications, and stakeholder engagement goals.
• Working with your staff to identify social media objectives, as well as your needs around learning social media.
• Building specifications for your website in team with your staff and other stakeholders as required.
• Presenting three design concepts for you to choose from.
• Branding your site
• Building an architecture that can flex and change with your needs.
• Training your staff to reduce dependencies on third party consultants and webmasters.
• Hosting, if required.

Websites can be built on the following open source technologies. Open source saves you money. We can also help you install, configure, and brand many of the open source web site applications. These can save you time and money and include:

• WordPress - Blogging
• Joomla, Drupal, and CMS Made Simple - Content Management System
• SugarCRM - opensource Customer Relationship Management(CRM) application
• PHPList - Email Marketing

Some of the integrations we can include in your website include:

• Calendar: A dynamic calendar that lets you quickly add events which support single or multi-day events.
• Documents: A simple online module that (like a wiki) that lets you collaborate on documents, store and compare revisions, attach files, and once you're done print out the final copy.
• Blog: A tool that allows members to enter posts about issues, articles or anything pertinent to their group. Embedding multimedia is also an option. Members can comment on posts.
• Membership: Visitors can sign up and become members with access to designated portions and functionality of the website like discussion groups, downloads, etc.
• Task Tracker: A full task system that lets you assign to do's and create unlimited projects within each of your groups. The case tracker also lets you classify the tasks, give it a priority, and manage its status.
• Twitter: Services include Twitter set up, training, and integration with the site and with other social media like Facebook.
• Facebook: Page setup, training, and website integration
• YouTube: Page setup, training, and website integration.
• Flickr: Page setup, training, and website integration.
• Surveys: We can integrate mini-polls all the way to sophisticated surveys using third part form building software.
• Bulletin Boards: Allows for group discussions, themes set by users, although moderated to ensure appropriateness.
• Database-driven functionality like member profiles, press releases, event posting, and so forth.
• E-News Letters includes integrated sign up, archiving of newsletters, list management, etc.
• Notifications: Members/users are notified when they are assigned a task and/or can subscribe to be notified of new calendar items, document additions and/or changes. You control frequency of notifications.
• Group Dashboard: Mini widgets give you a snapshot of all the activity happening across your groups.

Mark Holmgren has led the development or participated as a team member in the development of numerous web-based software applications and web sites. One of his technology projects, My Family's Future, was given an innovation award from the State of Florida. Other projects include the development of e-fundraising tools and a grant application tool. In the early 2000s, Mark sat on the board of Rainbow Coalitions Technologies, the organization responsible for the development of Rainbow, one of the major fundraising applications used by United Ways in North America. Want more information? Contact Mark at 780.244.8686 or 780.299.0780