Meta Strategies delivers Web-based solutions and online strategies integrated into the work of the organization. We help you incorporate your organization’s existing resources — for instance, your event calendars, databases and mail blast tools — into one seamless website. We show you how to maximize social media and make it simple for anyone on your team to update and maintain your organization’s online presence. Further, we believe these services should be affordable, customized to your specific needs and easy to maintain.
Meta Strategies works with non-profit, public and socially responsible private sector organizations on tough problems — problems that keep coming back, despite efforts to fix them.
We believe our clients themselves often hold the solutions to the challenges they face, and that it’s our job to help them look in the right places. Our deeply collaborative approach means we’ll work with you to uncover solutions and create a new way forward.
Our approach is both fun and highly interactive,
putting you in the driver’s seat.
We offer and build customized web solutions that suit your needs, and the needs of your clientele.
We help our clients illustrate the bigger picture in their worlds. From there, we co-develop processes and strategies that address the specific challenges you face in your work.
We can write content for your site, Ad campaign of just about anything else you need some writing for.
We possess a strong and proven ability to craft compelling Proposals and RFPs that consistently yield successful outcomes.
Using a network approach and a complexity lens, we apply our knowledge, skills, and techniques to execute projects, big and small in scope.
Barry Veerkamp has been developing and managing websites and Web-based applications for over twenty years. He has worked on hundreds of projects, both locally and internationally and has a number of technical specialties, from online database and custom website development to graphic design, technical consulting, support and training. He brings a creative, fun and personalized approach to IT and Web-based solutions.
barry@metastrategies.com
416 340 6382
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Michelle Gay is a designer & researcher. She holds graduate degrees in Information Science from the University of Toronto and in Fine Art from NSCAD University in Halifax. She has over 20 years experience designing and creating with digital media. She is interested in engaging communities through a blending of design, processes and technologies to tell their stories
michelle@metastrategies.com
416 340 6382
Alice has 10+ years of academic-sector experience in research, marketing and communications. Enthusiastic and adaptable, she is an outstanding writer, editor and strategic thinker. Prior to working in university administration, she completed a PhD in history and was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where she taught for several years.
info@metastrategies.com
416 340 6382
Paul Fraumeni is a Toronto-based editor and writer. For 20 years, Paul was a communications executive with the University of Toronto. He was the founding editor of the award-winning Edge Magazine, which profiled U of T's research and scholarship and how it connects to global society. Before joining U of T, Paul was a highly respected communications strategist and writer in the fund raising sector, providing creative work for a wide range of not-for-profit organizations. His essays have been published in the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, and Broadview Magazine. Since 2018, Paul has been a busy freelance writer for such organizations as U of T, York University, and Empowered Kids Ontario. Paul holds a B.A.A. (Journalism) from Toronto Metropolitan University.
info@metastrategies.com
416 340 6382
Eric has been working as a graphic designer for more than twenty years, designing everything from brochures and books to emails and websites. While always staying on top of web technologies, he recently decided to rededicate himself to that field and completed a web programming course at the University of Toronto.
info@metastrategies.com
416 520 3778
Working at the intersection of culture and community, Jim Miller has initiated and coordinated projects that encompass a range of media disciplines, project collaborators, service providers, and end-user participants. Mindful of big picture priorities, budget limits, timeline needs, and task details; Jim manages projects by working collaboratively with team members to successfully realize project goals.
jim@metastrategies.com
416 340 6382
