Featured Work
Vanilla Ink Studios
“ It's been great working with people who really understood my business and what I wanted to achieve. They took my ideas and ran with them and came up with a website that was beyond my expectations.”
Kate Pickering, Founder of Vanilla Ink
Vanilla Ink is a fully equipped workshop in Dundee for jewellery graduates. As well as providing much sought after work space, it also supplies tailor-made business training, mentoring, support and advice. The facility offers the graduate the opportunity to develop their abilities, covering many areas of practical and theoretical skills as well as providing a supportive environment and network to work within.
Kate approached us with an ambitious vision which was to promote jewellery designers/makers through the Vanilla Ink brand. Along side the physical work shop, the website allows the designers to build up their online presence with the use of blogging, discussion forums and events. The discussion forums is a place for the Vanilla Ink designers to interact and engage with a wider audience by sharing knowledge and life experiences in design, making and business. Kate facilitates the forums however they are very much directed by the whole community.
As well as the facility to share this wealth of information, the Vanilla Ink website hosts an online shop where designers can sell their own pieces of work.
Overview of services provided:
- Brand creation
- Unique visual design
- User profiles
- Discussion forum
- Online shop
- Blogging facility
- Events facility
- SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
- Social Media integration
- Analytic reporting
Click here to view the Vanilla Ink Studios website.
Tea Leaves and Coffee
“We have been very impressed with iGiveADamn - they have been very creative and have designed a website for us that is easy for us to edit and update and pleasurable for our customers to use.”
Peter Clark, Tea Leaves and Coffee
TLC (Tea Leaves and Coffee) have been trading since 2010 from a small store on the Perth Road in Dundee. Customers can drop in for fresh tea or coffee selecting from a wide range of unique tea and coffee blends also available to takeaway for gifts or for use at home.
The owners came to us expressing a desire to expand their business into the online market, making their products available to the whole UK. They specifically wanted a website that would carry their existing branding, show off their product range and allow visitors to make online purchases.
We developed an E-Commerce website with a unique visual aesthetic and an easy to use administration panel for them to add and remove products.
In addition we devised an social media strategy which utilised blogging, Facebook and Twitter. These sources help build their online presence and allow them to easily keep in touch with their customers. Within just weeks of launching, TLC are the top result in a Google search using the keywords “tea leaves and coffee”.
Overview of services provided:
- E-Commerce web development
- Blogging facility
- Unique visual design
- Photography co-ordination
- SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
- Social Media integration
- Analytic Reporting
- Facebook setup and custom Page design
- Twitter setup and custom page design
Click here to view the TLC website
FOCHO
“...we were excited by the potential that Kyle and Jamie’s approach offered us.”
Andrew Macintosh, FOCHO
The Friends of the Caird Hall Organ (FOCHO) was set up in 2010 to support and promote the magnificent organ in the Caird Hall in Dundee. FOCHO was keen to develop a meaningful web presence and we initially approached iGiveADamn with a view simply to designing our website. However, we were excited by the potential that Kyle and Jamie’s approach offered us.
"The world of new media is a minefield for charities, especially those like ours which are small and run by volunteers. It can be hard to explain the benefits to those who are not familiar with it, and the process of becoming involved in many different platforms can be daunting. We were impressed at the way in which iGiveADamn was aimed at making this approachable, and this attitude also informed their creation of a website for FOCHO that has proved to be a versatile and useful tool for us, providing us with the flexibility to allow any user to add events or news items in a straightforward way, and giving us the potential to expand our presence in the future. It has also given us the confidence to use new media channels as an essential part of our publicity strategy."
Give Blood
Can social media and smartphone technology improve the active relationship between donor and blood transfusion service?
The iGiveADamn Team
The answer, YES!
Give Blood is a great example of how mobile and social technologies to be applied to create a more engaging and participative experience for both existing and potential blood donors. For example, donors often forget when they last gave blood.
Understanding the challenges
If you understand the challenges faced by blood donors you can begin to see how technology can be strategically used to combat these challenges. For example - Donors often forget when they last gave blood. Smartphone technology could track when a donor last made a donation and remind them when they can next give blood as well as presenting an option to set a calendar date. By embedding the act of giving blood into the donors mobile phone you are embedding it into their everyday life.
What next?
This is only one example of how technology can combat the challenges
faced but we are working on many more ideas. We are looking for a bold and ambitious blood transfusion service to work with us to make this a real product. The above is only one example of how technology can combat the challenges faced but there are many more example. Interested? Get in touch
Not just blood.
Our methodology and way of thinking can be applied to many different scenarios. If you think we can help you then please Get in touch. We are always on the lookout for exciting and innovative projects.
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