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The first North East Digital Awards was a big success and we're pleased to announce that the top awards for 2007 went to Everything Rugby, Platform One and Webit PR.
The Awards were open to three separate business types; Digital Users, Digital Suppliers and Digital Innovators. In addition to the three overall winners, 44 businesses also received recognition for their excellence by winning their specialist sub-categories.
To watch a specially created 'Digital Awards Mash' by VJ Caci, click here.
The 2008/9 Digital Awards is due to be launched later this year so watch this space! If you would like to be notified about the start of the campaign, please email digitalawards@n-e-life.co.uk
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Winning Entries
Company: Industrial Technology Systems Ltd (ITS)
Project: New Website - www.its-ltd.co.uk
Digital Users
Best B2B Website
The website went live at the end of November 2007. Since then we have seen a dramatic improvement in our search engine positions for many keywords. Within the first two months of the launch, the numbe...
Company: Million Dollar Women
Project: www.milliondollarwomen.co.uk
Digital Users
Best B2C Website
We have created a vibrant and unique collective of like minded online businesses that is growing fast and enjoys celebrating success....
Company: Project North East (PNE)
Project: voluntaryskills.com
Digital Users
Best Voluntary Sector Website
The voluntaryskills.com website is now seen as the most comprehensive source of information on training and development for the voluntary and community sector in the region, and our e-bulletins are re...
Company: Harrowgate Hill Community Link
Project: Harrowgate Hill Community Link
Digital Users
Best Public Information Website
I feel my business is to communicate and deliver up-to-date information for residents and others interested in Harrowgate Hill and the surrounding area. To provide a facility where everyone is able to...
Company: Kahua Music
Project: Kahua Music Online
Digital Users
Best eCommerce Website
After developing the new website and continuing to invest in further development, our monthly turnover from online sales has grown to approximately 30% of total turnover (previously it was 2%) and con...
Company: Blue Kangaroo Design
Project: Blue Kangaroo Design Website
Digital Users
Best Start-Up Website
We are now able to rotate our work on a daily basis if needs be. This gives our clients and potential clients a much broader range of examples to look at...
Company: Everything Rugby
Project: Everything Rugby
Digital Users
Best Youth Enterprise Website
The outcome is a site we are very proud of and one that is expanding at a good rate due to the professionalism of the site. We are a completely free site, so that helps, but the response that we have...
Company: UK Digital Storage Ltd
Project: UK Digital Storage - Search Marketing
Digital Users
Best Search Marketing Campaign
As a result of investment in keyword optimisation and search engine marketing, UKDS has increased its positioning on natural search engine listings. The company has 1st position on MSN for 7 keywords...
Company: SJennings Ltd
Project: Jennings Ford Direct
Digital Users
Best Website Optimisation
95% of target keywords from start of year have now achieved top position in Google. Sample keywords:- 'Used Ford' 'Used Ford Cars' 'Used Ford Focus' 'Ford Direct' 'Used Ford Mondeo' 'Ford fies...
Company: Beatsuite.com Music Library
Project: Online Marketing Campaign
Digital Users
Best Online Marketing Campaign
In short we have increased traffic from 300K hits per month to over 1.6 million per month. Our sales have trebled and we are now a profitable entity. Our user sign ups have trebled. Rankings wise we n...
Company: Quickrelease.tv
Project: Quickrelease.tv blog
Digital Users
Best Use of Blogging
Quickrelease.tv content is personal views, the sort of commentary I wouldn't be able to put on a trade story on BikeBiz.com. This freedom to commentate on breaking stories is a useful way to split my ...
Company: Adam Maxwell
Project: Adam Maxwell's Fiction Lounge
Digital Users
Best Podcasting Campaign
I now have a website I think reflects my writing well, is well organised and attracts thousands of visitors. I have had excellent feedback about the site and visitor number and podcast subscribers inc...
Company: Williams Language Solutions Ltd
Project: Online Language Courses
Digital Users
Best Online Learning
Our web-based clients can benefit from a language course delivered to the other side of the keyboard. This saves them money and time. E-learning is also environmental friendly. The high visibility of ...
Company: Six String Designs
Project: Portfolio / Steak and Kidney Kid Animation
Digital Users
Best Use of Animation
I have successfully acquired employment with a local more established web design company and feel that this project was the sole reason I got it....
Company: Northern Film & Media
Project: North East Movies
Digital Users
Best Use of Online Film and Video
In the first month over 30,000 films were viewed on North East Movies website - a first for North East talent. In the first 4 months over 100 films were added to the site by North East film makers. We...
Company: Kahua Music
Project: Kahua Music Sound Files Project
Digital Users
Best Music Website
The project has made our site more user-friendly and allows customers to hear sound clips in whichever way they prefer - whether that is one longer soundclip featuring all tracks and remixes, or each ...
Company: Fat Frog
Project: RMT
Digital Suppliers
Best B2B Website
RMT now have a website that reflects their forward thinking in their own business sector as well as having the freedom to present their clients with up to date and easy to access information....
Company: Waterstons Limited
Project: New College Durham Website
Digital Suppliers
Best B2C Website
Despite limitations due to accessibility restrictions, the new website has a modern look designed around the College’s existing brand. It comes top of the Google search listings, is easy to navigate a...
Company: M G H Consultants
Project: The Bentley Beetham Collection - 1924 Everest Expedition
Digital Suppliers
Best Voluntary Sector Website
The website is now split into clear themes that formed major parts of Bentley Beetham's life. Each theme provides ways in to the collection as well as basic and advanced search features aimed at the g...
Company: Lavender Web Design
Project: Your Life Line
Digital Suppliers
Best Public Information Website
The website is still fresh out of the box, only launching in March 2008, so we are excited to see the impact that it is going to have over the next couple of months. The feedback from the students inv...
Company: Mediamint Ltd
Project: European Sole
Digital Suppliers
Best eCommerce Website
We have built an extremely dynamic e-commerce site for European Sole that integrates seamlessly with their existing business processes. We have also developed a strong relationship with a client th...
Company: Blueshark Design
Project: LetsLiveHere.co.uk
Digital Suppliers
Best Start-Up Website
Since the site has been live, letslivehere.co.uk has attracted large volumes of users from targets areas such as Glasgow, Edinburgh and Leeds as well as increasing walk-in enquiries....
Company: Indigo Multimedia Limited
Project: Connexions County Durham – Help4Teens
Digital Suppliers
Best Youth Enterprise Website
Help4Teens really strengthened our existing relationship with the Connexions Service across the UK. To date we have now provided web development, video and CDROM based projects for a number of Connexi...
Company: Indigo Multimedia Limited
Project: Connexions Cambridgeshire - 4us.org.uk
Digital Suppliers
Best Example of Accessibility
This site offers Connexions Cambridgeshire and Peterborough an opportunity to deliver advice and support in an accessible, friendly manner, allowing them to communicate and meet the needs of all the y...
Company: Wynyard Consultants Ltd
Project: Weschenfelder Search Marketing
Digital Suppliers
Best Search Marketing Campaign
The client has seen the business grow from next to nothing to a profit well into 6 figures in 2007. The return on their advertising spend is consistently around 500% with new clients acquired for arou...
Company: angelfysh internet marketing
Project: Cake Perfect
Digital Suppliers
Best Website Optimisation
Cake Perfect can be found on the first pages of Google, Yahoo and MSN (with many number 1 listings) for all of the keywords chosen and as a result Cake Perfect gets almost 2000 relevant visitors a wee...
Company: Mobious
Project: Creative in a Bag
Digital Suppliers
Best Online Marketing Campaign
The campaign has been viewed over 3,000 times and has generated over 20 new clients for Concept Personnel. The Microsite has embedded send to a friend links which are still being used now, 3-months af...
Company: Mobious
Project: Carling Free Pint
Digital Suppliers
Best Mobile Marketing Campaign
The campaign, used program ads on match days and video advertising around the ground to prompt fans to text in to a shortcode to receive a free pint of Carling. They were then sent a ms back with a wa...
Company: Media Arts
Project: Bridge Club Business Podcasts
Digital Suppliers
Best Podcasting Campaign
The podcast has become a regular feature of Bridge Club's events and has a good base of subscribers throughout the north east as well as further afield in Australia, America, Asia and Europe. As a mem...
Company: Off Exploring
Project: STA Travel Blogs
Digital Suppliers
Best Example of User-Generated Content
Craig Hepburn, Global Webmaster for STA Travel quoted: "We now have a new means of engaging with website visitors and the potential to turn them in to paying customers. The unique user generated conte...
Company: Platform One
Project: Tradebox
Digital Suppliers
Best Software Solution
Tradebox Finance Manager is the only accountancy plug-in of its kind within the UK for online traders utilising the eBay and Amazon sales platforms. The launch of the product has transformed the compa...
Company: Waterstons Limited
Project: Virtualisation & Offsite Replication at Visage Ltd
Digital Suppliers
Best Use of Emerging Technology
The end solution for Visage is an IT infrastructure that delivers critical business needs for high levels of availability and painless disaster recovery. The benefits of this when needed could be inca...
Company: Back 2 Front Animation Ltd
Project: Talking With Hands
Digital Suppliers
Best Use of Animation
We have an increased awareness of the deaf community. The success of Talking With Hands has led us to work with some fantastic Deaf and Hard of hearing schools around the UK and we learn new things wi...
Company: indigo multimedia limited
Project: 100%ME
Digital Suppliers
Best Use of Online Film and Video
For our client, reaching out to their target audience has been made easier and more effective. For Indigo, the project presented the opportunity to expand our remit....
Company: Deanzod Website Design
Project: Fixagig
Digital Suppliers
Best Music Website
The site has really taken off and has brought a lot of attention to the web development side of my business....
Company: Coal Face Development
Project: Coal Face Website
Digital Suppliers
Best Newcomer
Our website has helped to give our business a more professional look and feel....
Company: Thap Ltd
Project: iwant2b
Digital Innovators
Best Use of Advanced Practises in Web Development
The project has been successfully completed with iwant2b developed to a fully working beta stage accepting new users. Our system is now being assessed by various education bodies and authorities with...
Company: Synergiq Ltd
Project: Mobliq
Digital Innovators
Best Integration of Emerging Technologies
Mobliq is new established across a range of client sectors and is proving popular with the energy, telecoms and courier sectors, thanks to its ability to capture images and signatures and providing fi...
Company: Firstline Interactive Systems Ltd
Project: E.ON - Interactive House
Digital Innovators
Best Example of Interactive Website
The house went live in October. Visitors exploring the house can see calculators showing the savings they could make to encourage them to make changes and save money and the amount of CO2 their hous...
Company: ITV SignPost
Project: BSL TV
Digital Innovators
Best News and Entertainment Website
The number of unique visits to our news pages uplifted from 21183 in December to 24274 in February, an increase of 15%. These are small figures, but large in the sign community which only numbers abou...
Company: dpivision.com Ltd
Project: Tradingeye - XHTML/CSS Shopping Cart & CMS
Digital Innovators
Best Example of Accessibility
Tradingeye has sold over 1000 licenses and we have an ever growing community with over 3000 posts on our forum in the last 3 months....
Company: webitpr Limited
Project: Social Media News Release
Digital Innovators
Best Use of Emerging Technology
The SMNR platform has been deemed a great success. We have distributed a number of SMNRs on behalf of FTSE100 and Fortune500 companies, including, Europe’s largest commercial broadcaster, ITV, leading...
Company: PINoptic Limited
Project: PINoptic authentication solution
Digital Innovators
Best Online Security Solution
The early work funded by the proof of concept loan enabled us to develop a secure, viable and successful solution - see pdf of product brochure. Firm interest has already been shown by a Moscow-bas...
Company: moShine
Project: 50,000 Pairs of Feet Can't Be Wrong
Digital Innovators
Best Experimental Use of Online Video and Animation
Working to such a tight deadline with such a lengthy duration of visuals to fill our workflow dramatically improved. Also working with such a world renowned artist such as Michael Nyman elevated ou...
