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We’re planning regular events in the MABs to help you understand how the related technology can benefit your business, not least because it will link you with businesses and customers elsewhere. Where appropriate, we will be inviting customers to those same events where we think they may have an interest in what YOUR business offers.

By registering with the Knowledge Bank, by getting involved with MAB events, you have the opportunity to not only benefit from NorthernNet’s world class technology, you could simply transform the way your company does business, and help yourself to more business.

We could introduce you to ways in which NorthernNet’s enabling technology can enhance the skills you already have, by linking you with potential business partners in the network. For most events, this means businesses connected virtually in other northern regions as well as those physically in the same room.

    

RTS Yorkshire Award Winners 2010   

The annual Royal Television Society, supported by Screen Yorkshire and NorthernNet and held at the Queens hotel, Leeds on 14th June saw the tables turned on master of ceremonies, Barry Cryer, when he was surprised and delighted with a Lifetime Achievement in Television award. This honour, a closely guarded secret, was the final award of a night that showcased the very best of Yorkshire productions.

• Are you the next young media apprentice?   

  • Apprenticeship helps young people to break into the media industry • Scheme can equip apprentices with skills to take advantage of MediaCityUK • Backing from the BBC, ITV Granada and Lime Pictures

• Region's creative industry urged to experiment with new business models   

  Vision+Media is encouraging the North West’s creative industry to embrace new business models and change the way they work, with its latest Visionary Sessions event.

• Digital and creative industries lose one week a month uploading files   

  Over 60 percent of digital and creative companies across the North are losing five working days a month transferring files. The finding is part of a wider survey conducted by NorthernNet to look at the growth of the digital and creative industries in the North and how they could save time and money by embracing the latest technology.

• Vision + Media launches £1 Million Skills Programme   

  Vision+Media has been awarded £1million by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) to help prepare the region’s digital and creative professionals for the arrival of MediaCityUK.

• Yorkshire companies join forces to launch groundbreaking mobile phone app   

  Digital media companies from across the region have demonstrated world leading innovation through a collaboration to develop the first ever audio-only game, built solely for the iPhone® and iPod Touch®.

• Gen Up   

  The Gen Up North project was launched on Monday 24th May at Vision+Media. It is a training initiative for emerging Digital talent in the North of England.