End of an Era. Adios Twitter
July 30, 2023
It still feels strange to say this, but after nearly 15 years of using Twitter both professionally and personally, I’ve shut down both accounts.
Armadillo Studios—and my own career — wouldn’t be where they are today without Twitter. Through the platform, I connected with clients, built and maintained friendships, reinforced my professional expertise and credentials, helped win political campaigns, and contributed to building local communities.
Experiencing “web 2.0″‘s birth and death along with dozens of world events online was an incredible experience to share with everyone. But it’s time to move on. There is very little redeeming value in Twitter from a professional and personal level. I’d recommend that most businesses and political entities start considering creating an exit strategy for the platform.
Categories: Corporate News,Social Media
A Fresh New Look for Place2Give.com! 🚀
November 5, 2022
We’re thrilled to unveil the redesign for our friends at Place2Give.com. We’re excited to present a brand-new interface designed to enhance the giving experience. The new site includes:
- User-Friendly Navigation: We’ve simplified the navigation to make it easier for you to find the information you need. Whether you’re searching for charities, exploring causes, or learning about our services, everything is just a click away.
- Modern Design: The new design is not only visually appealing but also optimized for seamless browsing across all devices. Whether on a desktop, tablet, or smartphone, you’ll enjoy a consistent and engaging experience.
- Improved the GIVE WP Donation Process: The streamlined donation process ensures that your contributions reach the causes you care about efficiently and securely.
Categories: Calgary Client Releases
Notice About COVID-19
April 1, 2020
First and foremost, I do hope that everyone is staying safe, self-isolating and of course doing their best to help #flattenthecurve during such strange times. Second, as a business owner, I am under no assumptions that a little WordPress design studio really warrants a formal COVID notice (like the ones that have flooded our emails for the past month), so I’ll get straight to the point.
Over the past few weeks, I have received a few questions about Armadillo’s operations during the pandemic. Simply put – Armadillo Studios is still open and still continuing to work with clients. Business is as usual in most daily aspects, except for two major difference:
1) To comply with the physical distancing suggestions, all meetings for the foreseeable future will take place over the phone or through Zoom.
2) There will be an added emphasis on payments made via Stripe or e-transfer moving forward.
Again, these are just a handful of small changes that Armadillo can make to help flatten the curve. I hope everyone is staying well, healthy and look forward to returning to our new normal soon.
Categories: Armadillo Studios News
VentureQuest 2020 & Armadillo Studios
February 6, 2020
Armadillo Studios is once again proud to be acting as an in-kind sponsor for Bow Valley College’s 2020 VentureQuest Awards.
Since 2015, we have had the opportunity to work with many of the finalists of these awards and provide some of the winners with $1,500 of in-kind online development and guidance to help kick start their business ideas. Most recently we worked with Amber of Once Upon A Story to get her business web site up and running. With the reception banquet this evening, we are looking forward to working with the latest crop of young entrepreneurs from Bow Valley College in 2020.
Donations, WordPress and GiveWP
December 10, 2019
With The 2020 edition of #GivingTuesday just wrapped up and the all important year-end fundraising push around the corner, I wanted to take a couple of seconds to talk about one of my favourite tools for WordPress – GiveWP.
Over the past couple of years, I have been using GiveWP to power the donation processing side of some of our most successful WordPress installs. Essentially, it’s an all-in-one third party WordPress plug-in that allows any organization to accept donations seamlessly and through an enhanced user interface. In particular, GiveWP has been invaluable when working with political campaigns, community organizations (that are not registered charities) and businesses looking to leverage a donation model for their revenue generation.
But what makes GiveWP different from the dozens of third party external donation tools and WooCommerce enabled set-ups? Here are the just some of the key features that I believe give GiveWP the edge:
- The core GiveWP install is free and relatively easy to install. Development time takes about an hour or two to set-up and the core plug-in comes with a slew of core features that are hard to find in most donation solutions. Additional add-ons are relatively inexpensive to add to a single domain (in comparison to the full cost of other WordPress Donation tools).
- GiveWP is incredibly versatile and isn’t only for registered charities, it works for non-registered charities, organizations looking to leverage a donation model (cough bloggers cough) and most importantly any sized political campaigns.
- Two key design features that are incredibly advantageous for online donation campaigns – fundraising goal trackers and donation amount buttons – come prepackaged and ready to go with the base install of GiveWP. (Click here to checkout the tool in action)
- It connects with Paypal and Stripe, right out of the box. The plug-in recently improved it’s core install to include both Stripe and Paypal payments gateways.
- Using GiveWP allows you to keep users on your site, without having to take them to a third party donation site.
- It comes with a full suite of reporting features within the WordPress backend to monitor donations and the email template set-up is easy to set-up to track donations received.
So if you’re a non-profit or an organization that is reevaluating your donation process after #GivingTuesday or looking to beef up your WordPress web site by accepting donations through your site before year-end or even frustrated by the existing tools out there, check out GiveWP.com. When it comes to the available tools out there, you won’t be disappointed at how powerful and easy-to-use the tool is.