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Turn wins 9 way pitch to design Henshaws society for the blind website

  We're really pleased to have won the website pitch, particularly with the high number of agencies involved.

Its a great opportunity to work with a large regional charity and adds to our existing and expanding portfolio of charity clients.

Our team are really excited about building a bespoke CMS, specifically for the use of the visually impaired, to sit behind the website. We have already developed a pioneering accessibility application which will aid visually impaired users to customise their viewing experience.
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Turn highly commended at the Yorkshire Digital Awards 2009

  Last month we were honoured to be shortlisted at this year's Yorkshire Digital Awards 2009 for best B2C website, and despite not winning our category we were delighted to be 'Highly commended' by the panel, an accolade which is rarely given out.

The black tie event, held at Savile's Hall at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, rewarded businesses with nine awards, which were judged by a panel of independent judges from across the industry.

The evening was compèred by former BBC journalist and presenter Nik Wood and Simon Hill, executive director of business for Yorkshire Forward, delivered a keynote speech emphasising how far the industry has progressed since the awards were established a decade ago.

Everyone at Turn and Yorkshire Cancer Research who attended the awards had a fantastic evening and hopefully next year we will go one better!
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Our 'Poster Maker' Flash Application wins a 'Talk Talk' Innovation In The Community Award

  The Poster Maker Flash application that we recently created for Bullying UK has been awarded the 'TalkTalk Innovation in the Community' Award. Our innovative use of QR Codes particularly appealed to the judges. The poster Maker has saved schools more than £34,000 over the last year!

Bullying UK briefed us to come up with an idea to target school children on a national scale to help raise awareness of Bullying in a fun and interactive way. No mean feat particularly on a limited budget! We created an online flash application which allows any young person to make their own personalised anti-bullying poster. On the 'call to action' panel on the bottom of each poster are two QR codes. When snapped with a mobile phone camera they allow the user to access a digital copy of the poster that can then be shared with other young people via MMS or Bluetooth, or can simply be printed out for the home or school. A second QR code allows access to the charity's mobile advice site www.bullying.co.uk. Even if children are in a rush they can snap the code from the poster with their phone and get immediate help from Bullying UK's mobile website. The project was funded with donations from the family and friends of Ben Vodden, the 11-year-old Sussex schoolboy who killed himself after bullying on the school bus in 2006. So far, more than 20,000 unique posters with a tribute to Ben have been created by schools all over the UK.

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Shortlisted for the best B2C website by the 'Yorkshire Digital Awards 2009'

  We've recently had some fantastic news, we've been shortlisted for the Yorkshire Digital Awards 2009 for best Business to Consumer website! It's recognition for our Yorkshire Cancer Research website that has recently gone live. The Yorkshire Digital Awards are now in their tenth year and the awards ceremony is taking place on 7 May 2009 at Saviles Hall, The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. We are all looking forward to the evening and hopefully our hard work, passion and enthusiasm for the project will pay off. We'd love to see you there!
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Matt Joins BNI

  Matt has recently joined the 'Mighty Oaks' Chapter of International Networking organisation BNI, meeting every Wednesday at the Cairn Hotel on Ripon Road in Harrogate. (more info)

BNI is a 20 year old business and professional organisation that allows only one person from each trade or profession to join a particular group. With over 3,700 active groups worldwide, and over 72,000 members, it is the most successful business referral organisation in the world.

Matt follows James (who is also a BNI member at the Thursday 'White Hart' group in Harrogate) in benefitting from the business opportunites that BNI has to offer. If you would like to be a visitor at either Matt or James's BNI breakfast meeting then please give us a call.
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