It's a new year and it promises to be a busy one! We're quite pleased at the number of recent projects that will keep us busy for a while! We're happy to be currently working on new websites for MOSAIC, Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Granville Island and Coastal Jazz, including the new TD Canada Trust Vancouver Jazz Festival. Plus, we're working on some new campaigns for Living Ocean Society, Sierra Club and the David Suzuki Foundation. All in all some really exciting work. It gives me a lot of gratitude to be working with clients of this calibre!

The Natural Step is a sustainability consultancy that is in dozens of countries worldwide. The framework of the Natural Step is an important process for developing a blueprint for sustainability. Agentic helped to theme and build their newest website in over 11 countries, with many languages, from Japanese to Swedish. Please check out this great project here.

Digital Drum Pro is the newest add to the Agentic family of websites. Designed and developed by our team, it's a way that Aboriginal filmmakers in Canada can profile and develop their work in a way that they control. It allows full length features to be added to the website along with a comprehensive profile of the filmmakers. It's just launched, so check it out and let your filmmaker friends know all about it!

As a new part of the Vision Vancouver website, we've launched a really cool new web widget developed by Biro Creative. It was Communicopia's idea to have this neat way of putting people on the map of Vancouve with their issues. It's well worth checking out and add your name! See it here.

I just got back from Imaginenative in Toronto, which is an Indigenous film festival. I was giving a talk on a panel for Alternative distribution of films. It was a really great talk and Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Kohn from Isuma were also on the panel along with Caroline Habib and Shane Smith from Skyfax. Eileen Arandiga, CFC was our moderator, although she struggled in keeping Norman from dominating the entire panel. Still, it was full of interesting ideas and thoughts around on alternative distribution. My take is that the reality of online distribution is that there is zero money available, and the best use of it right now is figuring out the right promotional strategy. More to come on this in my blog.

We've been building the new Vision Vancouver website and it launched today! It's been a great project anchored by the great strategy and design team at Communicopia and the internal team at Vision Vancouver. It's really building on the way Barack Obama has positioned his web strategy, although the Obama team has 75 people working full time on their site!! Anyway, this project has some fundraising integration with a lot of pretty heavy duty firepower in the background. We'll also be launching a really great web app shortly.  Check out the website here.

Phillip will be giving two workshops in Toronto for Cleonet's "Learn, Grow and Connect" conference Oct 6-7.

Web 101: Going online for small organizations
Need ideas on using the Internet to enhance your community legal education work? At this introductory workshop, you will have a chance to identify your online needs and to hear about simple tools and strategies for reaching specific communities and connecting with other organizations.
 
Web 201: Building your web site beyond the basics
Organizations that have already taken first steps online often encounter new issues and challenges. Come and learn about additional online tools and strategies that you can use in your community legal education work. Making use of the opportunities presented by advanced tools and strategies can also help you build organizational strength to serve your mission and mandate.

We've had the pleasure recently of launching two new projects - First Nations Employment Society and the Native Education College. Check them out here - www.fnes.ca and www.necvancouver.org

Our newest site has just launched. It's called Dropping Knowledge International and the site is a teaser site of a larger campaign designed to ask questions around the larger questions in our lives. Designed to be inclusive and interesting, it's well worth checking out.