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November 13th, 2009 by Lisa Francis

Carrenza wins at IT Industry Awards!

Carrenza had reason to celebrate last night as it picked up the award for “best community project” at the BCS and Computing UK IT Industry Awards for its work with Comic Relief.

Carrenza successfully worked with Comic Relief to lead a five year technology strategy and deliver systems to support this, whilst guaranteeing the management of unprecedented levels of traffic to the websites and donations portal, and for free.

In six months, Carrenza:

  • Worked with the technical partners as well as introducing new corporate partners, including PayPal and 3Par
  • Re-engineered the three critical business systems
  • Deployed the re-engineered systems to the virtualised hosting platform
April 29th, 2009 by Gerry Grewal

Time to own the supplement

Twitter in actionWhat a great start to the day – The Times has published its Virtualisation supplement  and Speed has clients in four articles.  Getting into national supplements often presents a challenge as, not only are they heavily sponsored therefore limiting some opportunities but it is quite hard to find out who is authoring the content.

However, Speed cracked this supplement using a mix of traditional  and digital PR.  If ever there was a good example of how important it is to be able to use a variety of communications routes to talk to the media, I’d have to say this was it.

The Carrenza and Interoute teams used; Response Source, Twitter, interviews and written comment. Each targetted to the requirements of the specific journalists writing each piece.

The results? Happy teams and very happy clients.