Communicopia

About a month ago, I was enjoying a quiet Sunday lunch with my wife in Kitsilano, my Vancouver neighbourhood, after a nice yoga class. While walking to the washroom, I checked my blackberry (come on, we all do this, right?) and in it was an email that reminded me why I love consulting work so much: your life can change on a dime. This dime was courtesy of the lovely Kathy Calvin, Senior VP at our client the United Nations Foundation, who we are working intensively with right now. Kathy asked me if I had heard of a new NGO called The Elders. She wanted to know if I would be interested giving a presentation on the Internet and its possibilities to support their global work. To the Elders themselves. In one month!

Last week, we launched a new site for a long time client, the Canadian Mental Health Association. Their site HeretoHelp.bc.ca is a resource for individuals and families dealing with addictions and mental health issues, and is actually one of BC's most active online community sites. The site was first conceived in the mid-90's when the BC provincial government asked the major mental health and addictions organizations in the province to collaborate on a shared online portal.

I was interviewed about 3 months ago for a case study to be published in BC Business Magazine. The authour, Tony Wanless, is a smart guy who does his own corporate consulting in addition to writing a regular column and being a prolific blogger on business issues and trends.