One of the latest web innovations, cloud computing, will be on the menu at business breakfast being held by the Met Club in Harrogate, on 20 February.

Guests at the networking breakfast, which is open to non-members, will hear Lee Evans of Harrogate-based Vital Technology Group give non-technical overview of some of the main benefits and downsides of cloud computing.

Lee Evans said: “Cloud Computing is the delivery of IT resources over the internet as opposed to hosting or operating the services in-house, but one of the biggest obstacles in the adoption of new technologies is trust and security.”

He added: “Reputable cloud providers should have strong business continuity and data recovery solutions in place, and the business breakfast will see me discussing all of this in a very simple way.”

The breakfast is at the White Hart Hotel, Harrogate, and runs between 8.30am and 10.00am. It costs £15.00 + vat for members or £20.00 + vat for non-members. Further details are available at www.themetclub.co.uk or telephone 01423 525622.

The MD of Blue Sky PR client Vital Technology Group has been re-elected vice-chairman of a lobbying forum set up by the leading global IT industry association.

The CompTIA UK Channel Community was only established last year with Lee Evans being chosen as vice-chairman.

As a lobbying group, CompTIA brings together executives from across the full spectrum of the UK IT sector to take on the challenges that are unique to the British market. Read the rest of this entry »

The managing director of Blue Sky PR client Vital Network Solutions has been a guest speaker at an IT industry conference, in Utrecht, in the Netherlands.

Lee Evans was invited to the GFI Max European Customer Conference where he spoke about the benefits of remote IT monitoring and management.

The annual conference was organised by GFI Software which provides award-winning IT solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as managed service and IT support providers such as Vital Network Solutions. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the panel members at a business lunch in Leeds later this month will be the Bank of England’s agent for Yorkshire & the Humber, Juliette Healey.

Ms Healey, who officially took over from Paul Fullerton on 3 January, will be joined by Neil McLean, chairman of the Leeds City Region LEP; and Tom Riordan, chief executive of Leeds City Council at the Met Club lunch.

The event, which is open to non-Met Club members, is on Friday 27 January at Mint Hotel, Granary Wharf, between 12.00pm and 2.30pm. Read the rest of this entry »

Ex-Liverpool FC players David Johnson and Alan Kennedy were guests of honour as a restaurant opened its fourth outlet in Wakefield, while also raising money for charity.

The duo, who have each won three European Cup winners’ medals, were at Blue Sky PR client Cinnamon Lounge as guests of entrepreneur Sam Miah, where they helped raise around £500 Marie Curie Cancer Care.

The restaurant, in the city’s Northgate, close to the Trinity Walk development, is the fourth eatery to be opened following ones in Mirfield, Horbury Bridge and Flockton Moor.

We’ve just completed a marketing and social media project for a charity that provides riding therapy with donkeys to children that have special needs and disabilities.

The Elisabeth Svendsen Trust for Children & Donkeys (EST), which is based at Eccup, in north Leeds, has had a strategy developed for it so that the charity can manage its future marketing and social media needs in-house.

We’ve put in place a social media policy involving Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, along with an e-marketing campaign, and given directions in more traditional public relations and marketing techniques. Read the rest of this entry »

Blue Sky PR client Vital Online Studio has designed and built a new website for the North’s leading independent brick-maker.

The site for York Handmade Brick Company shows off the company’s expertise in manufacturing tailor-made bricks and blocks for the construction industry, as well as for private individuals.

The award-winning company is based in Alne, to the north of York, and was established in 1988, and since then has spent around £2 million in building a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve completed a project to help market a North Yorkshire pub which lays claim to having the largest beer garden in the region.

Our marketing strategy for the Bruce Arms, in Masham, saw us build a new website, create a Facebook page along with an e-marketing campaign.

In addition a public relations campaign was developed on the back of the pub’s re-launch after the landlord invested several thousand pounds in refurbishing the interior and developing what had previously been scrubland into a two-tiered beer garden.

The former home of the Williams F1 Le Mans project was the backdrop for an IT industry conference where the managing director of Blue Sky PR client Vital Network Solutions was one of the invited speakers.

Lee Evans presented to delegates at the GFI Max Customer Conference, held at the F1 Williams Conference Centre, near Wantage, in Oxfordshire.

He spoke about the benefits of remote monitoring and management and how it can be integrated into an IT service provider business to deliver the best possible customer experience. Read the rest of this entry »

Blue Sky PR client the Met Club, which has its headquarters in Harrogate, has been named an official partner of next month’s MADE Festival, in Sheffield, which is aimed at encouraging entrepreneurs.

Billed as the UK’s premier business festival for entrepreneurs and business growth, MADE runs between 21 and 24 September, and the Met Club will be hosting a lunch ahead of the event on Tuesday the 6th.

The guest speaker will be the strategic marketing director of Creative Sheffield, Brendan Moffett, who will be talking specifically about the MADE Festival and how it will impact on the region. Read the rest of this entry »