Community Bandwidth

I met with Phillip Smith today — Phillip runs Community Bandwidth, a consulting practice working with not-for-profit, social justice, community organizations, cultural organizations and individuals to examine the ways in which Internet technologies can be used to build organizational capacity, support community engagement, facilitate group collaboration and create successful online campaigns, always with the goal of demystifying and simplifying technology in the process. Phillip is an excellent facilitator — I met him first at a Social Tech meeting, where he facilitated a large group discussion around the social applications of wikis.

Community Bandwidth operates out of the 215 Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto, and frequently works on projects with both the Commons Group and Co-op Tools. I really enjoyed meeting Phillip and learning more about Community Bandwidth, and hope to work with his organization on projects in the near future.