I Work in Progress

Targett Design was founded in January 2010 with the goal of helping non-profits, locally-owned small businesses, artists, and community organizations engage with a wider audience. I create affordable, attractive, and user-friendly websites, developing not only a message but a relationship between content creators, providers and consumers. With a passion for new modes and models of communication, and a unique approach to web development as community development, I work at the intersection of new media and sustainability.

Email: mike@miketargett.com
Facebook: facebook.com/miketargett
Twitter: @miketargett

I moved to Cape Breton from Toronto in 2001 to live with my grandfather in Whitney Pier. I attended Cape Breton University (then UCCB), majoring in philosophy and working as an editor at the Caper Times.

After university I worked at the Coastal Discovery Centre in Main-a-Dieu as project coordinator of the Green Beacon project. Its goals were to make the centre and surrounding communities sustainable – fiscally and environmentally – and a model for other communities wishing to ‘go green’ and reduce energy costs. (See ‘Green Beacon, Bright Future: An Experimental Development Model for the Main-a-Dieu Coastal Discovery Centre’)

I’m currently a member of the board of directors of New Dawn Enterprises and an advisory board member of the Centre for International Studies at CBU.

My partner, Ardelle Reynolds, is a former reporter with CBC Radio in Sydney and former manager of the Cape Breton Farmer’s Market. We are raising our two (going on three) kids in Cape Breton, close to family and friends, doing what we love, and doing our part to make this an even better place to grow up and grow old.

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