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. 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.

Our newest launch is a new way to talk about climate change. Our client, Might Minds Ventures, wanted to think about a different way to speak to people about the impacts of global warming. Rather than preach to the converted, he took a new angle - and the result is Freakyweather.com. The website portrays the impacts of climate change as "freaky weather" and invites anyone to review and submit their freakiest weather. It's a subtle way to get the Youtube viewer to think a little bit more critically about their environment.

Andrea Reimer has announced her candidacy for Vision Vancouver for City Council and we were happy to get involved in developing her website. We think Andrea is a great candidate for council and we're pleased to see her launch. She has been the Executive Director for Western Canada Wilderness as well as being on Vancouver School Board. She's got tons of experience that will make a difference on Council. Good luck Andrea! Learn more about Andrea at AndreaReimer.ca.

Today the Canadian Tourism Commission, a Federal government initiative to promote Canada worldwide, launched their new media website and a creative project we've completed for them was highlighted on the homepage and we're quite excited with the piece. It was a slideshow we created completely with three fabulous Canadian authors discussing their creative process during a wonderful trip to Tofino BC. It was a way to highlight both creative authors and a beautiful place in Canada simultaneously.

We're extremely proud of this latest project as it is a key part of getting the message out about genocide and the work that we can do to stop it world wide. This was a partnership with Biro Creative and the Genocide Intervention Network. The Genocide Intervention Network provides individuals and communities with the tools to stop and prevent genocide. The student-led division, STAND, specifically works to empower students worldwide. STAND has more than 1,000 active chapters in more than 25 countries working to end genocide.