Phillip Djwa's Blog

Web Presence and Online Engagement

Tue Jun 29 2010
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As Agentic has built its expertise in working with larger organizations, many items arise that are similar in nature. In many of our clients, the notion of a single website for their organization was something that they often started with in the past. For example, ten years ago, many organizations did not have any websites online, and in the past ten years have struggled to create them. However, today, many other organizations that have started building websites ten years ago, have actually radically shifted the amount and tenor of their web properties today. 

Value of Strategy

Thu Jun 17 2010
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Important to many clients is the notion that their website should be built quickly, efficiently, and take into account as many future trends as possible. Yet most of these projects take place in a larger context. Understanding this context and placing the website within it is what we would refer to as strategy. And unfortunately, many of the projects that we get involved in don’t have a proper strategy, but we see the value of strategy.

Podcast: How can your company leverage Web 2.0

Sun May 02 2010
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How can your business or nonprofit leverage Web 2.0 strategies to deepen your engagement with customers, win new fans, and position yourself for explosive growth? Marketing strategist Dorie Clark interviews Phillip Djwa of Internet strategy and development firm Agentic Communications. In this interview, you'll learn the most common mistakes organizations make with their websites (and how to avoid them), the mechanics of "going viral," how you can take advantage of hot trends such as geolocation and mobile, and tips you can employ right now to make your website better and more effective.

Our support for Open Source - Thunderbird

Sat Oct 24 2009
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Supporting open source is something we continue to try to do and even though often times we feel like we have a long way to go to give back, one recent piece we're pleased to help with is the new Spread Thunderbird site for Mozilla. http://spreadthunderbird.com/

It's a way that anyone can share the message of the countless hours of volunteer support that Thunderbird, which is the open source email program used by millions of people. It's a way that the openness on the web can be spread to everyone that might need it.

Hubert Florin is our talented designer and coder that designed the site, and hats off to the Mozilla Messenging team, especially Roland Tanglao for giving us this opportunity.

Melting Silos Development Project for Trans-media Content Projects

Tue Oct 06 2009
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Agentic Communications, the National Film Board, and the SFU Praxis Centre for Screenwriters are launching the "Melting Silos" concept development program with the participation of Telefilm's Canada New Media Fund - Sectoral Assistance.
The goal of the Melting Silos Program is to connect local filmmakers and new media talent in a way that educates both parties and facilitates the development of project materials to be ready for production.
We're now seeking a small group of accomplished filmmakers and New Media production companies who would like to produce narrative web-based work.

Web of Change 2009

Wed Sep 09 2009
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I'm going to Web of Change
This year, I'm really looking forward to Web of Change and not only because we're a sponsor. It's a chance to connect with peers and learn more about what's what in the world of non-profit and technology. It's a way that we learn about new techniques, ideas, and ways of helping our clients. It's like a post-grad course in 5 days. Mucho thinking, but worth it. Adam will be attending with me so we can both learn how to push the edges of campaign innovation, collaborate better and learn how to be of service in our transformative new world!

Agentic Sponsorships this Year

Sun Aug 30 2009
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Wow, looking back this year, I see we have sponsored quite a few projects and organizations. By far our biggest sponsorship was the TD Canada Trust Vancouver Jazz Festival this year, but we also sponsored Barcamp, DrupalCamp, Web of Change, Nootka Fine Arts School, BC Cancer Foundation, Duncan Hospice, and contributed time and work to the Wilderness Committee, Vision Vancouver, Living Oceans Society, and many more! We're happy to do it as we think it's another way to be involved in our community.

Agentic Defined

Sun Aug 30 2009
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Came across this new definition of Agentic which I think is so fantastic: A "perspective that views people as self-organizing, proactive, self-reflecting and self-regulating, not just as reactive organisms shaped by environmental forces or driven by inner impulses."(Wikipedia)
It just means to me that people have human agency to make choices that can impact the world. We choose deliberately to work with social value organizations because we think that this is the way we can assist in helping the world.

League of Kickass Business People

Tue May 26 2009
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A new community for innovative business professionals is launching inVancouver on Thursday, May 28th @6-9pm.The League of Kickass Business People is a collection of opinion leaders,tastemakers and rainmakers who live, work, play and think ahead of themainstream. A the inaugural event, I'll be facilitating a fantastic 2010 opportunitiespanel that will show the way for kickass business people to become more involved in 2010. http://theleagueofkickassbusinesspeople.ning.com/

Social Tech Training (Toronto)

Tue May 26 2009
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Social Tech Training (STT) returns to Toronto’s MaRS Centre, June 10th — 12th, 2009. Join me and many other amazing trainers for our second hands-on Web 2.0 oriented learning intensive for people learning mastery in the social tech and social change sector. In 2009 the business case for online and social media is clearer than ever. No one working in social change can afford to ignore the opportunities offered by the web, and STT makes these opportunities available to forward looking organizations through this Masters level training.