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New website showcases rich history of Fish Quay business hub

January 19, 2012 in News Roundup

North East digital company Armadillo is working on a campaign to promote the North Shields Fish Quay business hub.

With support from North Tyneside Council, Armadillo is delivering a range of digital and offline media to highlight the historic Quay both as an area for tourism and as a desirable business location.

A new website, launched in December, celebrates the rich history of the Fish Quay boasting a variety of media such as original and archive photography, video clips, stories, property downloads and desktop calendars.

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North East experts come together to create first-of-its-kind training website

December 1, 2011 in News Roundup

Tony Olanipekun from AYO Media (left) with Chris Quickfall from e-Quality Learning

The newly launched e-Quality Learning is the UK’s first website that provides comprehensive one-to-one training for individuals with disabilities.

The site was built by Gateshead-based digital specialist AYO Media for Newcastle-based training provider e-Quality Learning.

Their high-level model of training that better supports the requirements of disabled trainees has been developed in partnership with the Centre for Design and Research at Northumbria University.

The new website delivers online training of assistive software to individuals, employees and carers, and allows them to revisit their own recorded sessions in accessible multimedia format.

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Local developers to reinvent Gateshead College site

September 9, 2011 in News Roundup

AYO Media directors from left to right: Tony Olanipekun, Rob Mathieson and Kevin Reece.

AYO Media directors from left to right: Tony Olanipekun, Rob Mathieson and Kevin Reece.

Gateshead College has turned to local talent in its large scale website revamp.

The college has chosen Tyneside-based digital specialist AYO Media to redevelop its corporate website and integrate the new site into its internal network.

As an organisation with a large amount of information to manage, Gateshead College requires its online information to be constantly updated and dynamic.

It was AYO Media’s expertise in handling complex systems and dealing with large amounts of data that won the contract for them.

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Ever thought of wearing your business card?

August 24, 2011 in News Roundup

woven_QR_codeThese days, you can see QR codes pretty much everywhere you look – from magazine ads to billboards, the black square has been woven into our landscape.

Now a company is set to weave it into our clothes.

Quality Corporate Clothing will add QR codes into work clothing, for example below a company logo in the chest.

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Small businesses not taking advantage of web

July 19, 2011 in News Roundup

smallbusinessMore than half of businesses with fewer than 50 employees do not have a website, a new survey has revealed.

What is more shocking perhaps is that almost 6 in 10 of these businesses do not believe they need to have one.

Creative software developer Serif asked 400 sole traders and small businesses, discovering that 81% of them prefer to buy from companies with websites.

The benefits for the companies with websites were clear with 41% of business leads generated online.

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In-House Digital Marketing Co-Ordinator

July 11, 2011 in Jobs

Type of job: 6 Months Maternity Cover
Location: Redcar
Salary: 
£20,000 per annum

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Digital Marketing manager to assist the Senior Marketing Coordinator within a well established organisation based in Redcar with the delivery of their digital communications, through the maintenance and development of websites and intranet and management of digital marketing campaigns.

This is a 6 month maternity cover contract and requires someone to start immediately.

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Young entrepreneur site gets a new look

July 8, 2011 in News Roundup

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A website dedicated to granting awards and giving exposure to young entrepreneurs has been revamped for better usability.

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nma webinar – Managing Mobile Engagement

June 9, 2011 in Events

Date: 22 June 2011, 3pm
Cost: Free
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Over 20 million people each month are using the mobile internet in the UK. If your website is not optimised for mobile you’re turning potential customers away.

But taking your website mobile isn’t always straightforward. What content do you want to offer? How far should it replicate your website? What phones should you develop it for? Should it be transactional? What functionality is unique to mobile? Do you really need an app strategy for your customer base or is a mobile website enough?

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Football clubs to set the example for accessible websites

May 23, 2011 in News Roundup

(from left) Rev. James Webber, Chairman of Action for Better Access, with Chris Beveridge, Voluntary Disability Liason Officer Blackpool FC and John Kelly, Vice Chairman and Co-founder of Access Network Equality.

(from left) Rev. James Webber, Chairman of Action for Better Access, with Chris Beveridge, Voluntary Disability Liason Officer Blackpool FC and John Kelly, Vice Chairman and Co-founder of Access Network Equality.

Football clubs in the UK are set to excel in following web accessibility guidelines with the help of a new cyber charity.

‘Action for Better Access’ uses cutting edge ROKTALK technology to convert text to speech in several different languages.

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Government experiments with Google-inspired site

May 12, 2011 in News Roundup

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The UK government is experimenting with a sleek and user-friendly website which brings all of their information under a single site.

Borrowing it’s look and feel from one of the most usable websites of all time – Google – Alpha.gov.uk is determined to be as simple as possible, placing the needs of citizens first.

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