A small selection of handcrafted offerings tailored to the needs of values-based organizations.

Independent publications & progressive media

Helping you break through corporate media dominance to deliver fresh thinking. Ongoing consulting and hands-on help. Web-based publishing tools and content management systems. Audience and subscriber development. Earned income and revenue strategies. Demonstrated and long-standing commitment to alternative media. Phillip can help your organization to be a signal of clarity in a noisy environment. Read more about services for independent publications & progressive media initiatives.

Online advocacy & grassroots campaigns

Strategies and tools to help you win. Campaign Web sites. Advocacy tools. E-mail list management. Workshops and trainings. Network-centric thinking. Open-source ideas. Mass-networking strategies. Phillip can help you conceive, create, launch and manage your next online campaign. Read more about services for online advocacy & grassroots campaigns.

Innovative non-profits & social-mission organizations

Bringing professionalism and understanding to your technology investments. Information architecture. Information design. Usability reviews. Short-term recommendations. Long-term strategies. Phillip can help your organization stay on the leading edge of change. Read more about services for innovative non-profits & social-mission organizations.

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Train your team

From one-hour lunch-and-learn events to full-day interactive workshops, Phillip can design and deliver a powerful learning experience for your organization or membership. Frequent workshops topics include: Writing for the Web, online campaigning, free and open-source software for non-profits, and mission-based technology planning. He has delivered workshops from coast-to-coast for groups like the Council of Canadians, Creative Trust, ONE/Northwest, and the Ontario Coalition for International Cooperation.

Speak at your event

Phillip is known for inviting audiences to think differently and challenging them to consider new ideas. He speaks widely on topics at the intersection of technology and progressive social change. Public appearances include: Magazine Canada's MagNet conference, Association of Fundraising Professionals congress, the Maytree Foundation’s Building Strong Communities conference, the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation’s Think Again conference, and MIT’s conference on Human Rights and Technology. And, you’re in luck: he’s not that expensive.

Write for your publication

Do you speak to a community of non-profit professionals or social innovators? Are you looking to introduce them to new ideas or concepts that involve technology? Have a high-traffic blog or online publication and some new material to inspire your audience? Phillip writes thoughtfully and selectively about non-profit technology issues and improving the non-profit technology assistance community in Canada; he has written for the Ontario Association of Youth Employment Centres, Magazines Canada, the Ministry of Citizenship, and the University of California’s Institute of Non-profit Management.

Ensure that you’re always up-to-speed with the landscape

Are you also working with values-based organizations? Do you support political, environmental, advocacy, or social justice organizations? Perhaps you’re a fundraising specialist, an organizational development consultant, or part of a new breed of socially-guided businesses — if so, Phillip can be a valuable asset to your team at strategic moments where your work intersects with technology. Phillip provides both one-time and ongoing technology consulting to a range of social-mission businesses and non-profit support agencies, including technology grant writing, technology leadership, and simply keeping you abreast of new solutions and trends.

Organize, facilitate, or convene your event

Want to bring together change agents in a high-impact, face-to-face, format? Need to convene a dialogue around the role of technology for your members or for your non-profit community of interest? Phillip has been helping to hold space for these conversations for several years now and can help you plan, promote, and produce your next gathering, workshop, or event. Over the past few years, Phillip has been involved in convening everything from innovative annual events like Web of Change, CopyCamp, and DrupalCamp, to one-day happenings like Open Cities and Penguin Day Toronto.

Ready to dive in? Contact Phillip today to see how he can help your organization.

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