Back when our office was in downtown Bowie, we never missed Sip and Stroll. It's a quarterly evening put on by Bowie Community Development and the Bowie Chamber of Commerce, where folks wander from shop to shop downtown with a drink in hand and plenty of snacks along the way.
At the Christmas Sip and Stroll one year, Bryan Shriver walked into our office. We had monitors scrolling through our recent work, and he stopped to ask about it. We got to talking, and I mentioned we'd built websites for two of his board members, Rusty Morgan of Morgan Livestock Equipment and Allen Heugatter of HeugatterAuctions.com.
A month or two later, Bryan called and asked us to bid on Wise Electric Cooperative's website. We won the bid and built their new site. A few years later, we upgraded it to the site they have today.
One of the biggest changes was their forms. Members used to download scanned copies of copies, print them out and fill them in by hand. We turned most of those into digital forms that members fill out and submit online.
Wise Electric was our first public utility website. It wasn't our last.