I recently made a controversial statement during a presentation: facts are meaningless. The audience responded with nervous laughter, probably wondering how to digest this remark. But in our business of working with social change, this landscape means that we need to consider our work in this context.
or reading a novel, they are interpreting the story and thus co-creating its meaning. Online, an interactive narrative is a form of narrative where there is a higher level of interaction than most narrative forms, between the author’s creation and the viewer/user. Whether or not this makes an interactive narrative a “good” story is another article. The purpose of today is to discuss and identify some physical forms of interactive narrative that can be experienced through digital media, given the emerging form.
On Thursday, November 24, I had the pleasure of hosting a group of social change innovators for a breakfast presentation on top Web Trends for Social Change Organizations in 2012. Despite the early hour, we had a good crowd. I was pleased to present the top trends that I see in my unique position as a web developer that works with so many different social change organizations. I see many of the trends that are impacting our clients and this was a good time to reflect as the year flips over. I'm always fascinated by how our clients overcome challenges and innovate their work to benefit social change. 
Nobody wants to fail. Failure is something we naturally try to avoid. But what happens when it occurs? As agencies, we don’t often talk about it publicly, but of course we have failures. And within our failures lie deep insights and answers waiting to be uncovered. These insights can provide us with the biggest breakthroughs, especially when running a strategy agency. So, in that spirit, I’ve elaborated about one of our failures. And it speaks to a larger insight about our “focus-the-client” approach we really encourage.
It’s become increasingly clear that a number of firms are changing their work direction to focus more on strategy as opposed to web production. This means they are tackling the first steps of planning an online campaign and working to develop recommendations on strategy without executing the actual build. Then, other companies take on the task of actually building the website. This change presents an interesting comment on changing times in the web development business. 
A recent project that we’ve had a chance to work on was a project for the BC Self Advocacy Foundation. This organization assists people with developmental disabilities to become full participating citizens in their own communities. Agentic was hired to work with the staff at the BCSAF to develop a new web presence and to help them engage their audience. One of the key issues for a group like this is making a website to be accessible to people with developmental disabilities. A developmental disability is a life-long condition that means a person develops differently, and more slowly than others. TheAbout Agentic
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