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North Eastâ??s digital successes rewarded

A rugby club website, a bespoke software developer and an innovative PR agency walked away with top honours at the inaugural North East Digital Awards last week.

Everything Rugby, Platform One and Webit PR fought off hot competition to scoop the top prizes at the ceremony at Newcastle’s Hyena Café Comedy Club, winning Best Overall Digital User, Best Overall Digital Supplier and Best Overall Digital Innovator respectively.

A further 52 businesses also received recognition for their digital achievements, winning their specialist sub-categories at the ceremony hosted by comedian Brian Healey and featuring an unusual fish and chips awards dinner.

Amongst them were milliondollarwomen.co.uk, which won Best b2c Website; voluntaryskills.com which won Best Voluntary Sector website;kahuamusic.com which won Best Music Website and Adam Maxwell’s Fiction Lounge which won Best Podcasting campaign.

Stephen Carey, One NorthEast’s eBusiness Specialist Advisor, said: “The digital sector is a very important part of the region’s emerging knowledge economy, with a growing reputation for innovation and excellence. The response to North East England’s first Digital Awards has been fantastic and we would like to congratulate all the winners.”

For more information about awards submissions for 2008/09 visit www.northeastdigitalawards.co.uk

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