
Never a dull day in the North East Glue: A multi sensory art & design event to inspire, influence and involve Introducing the new Face of Tees Valley Advent Calendar Online Daniel and Danielle Calm's quest for SEO perfection Final Thoughts Calm Asylum Brighouse Road Riverside Park Middlesbrough TS2 1RT talk@calmasylum.com www.calmasylum.com Tel: 0845 058 0511		Never a dull day here in the North East With the launch of the revamped events-led website for visitTeesvalley and the bid website for Durham City of Culture, residents from in and around the region have absolutely no excuse to sit at home and twiddle their thumbs. Calm Asylum has been lucky enough to be involved in the design and development both of these landmark websites that are jam-packed with opportunities to get out and about and explore what's on across the North East. www.visitteesvalley.co.uk is the realisation of the Area Tourism Partnership's strategy to market the Tees Valley as an events-led destination. The launch of the website coincided with the Do Something Different campaign - you may have seen the big red converse boot out and about. Oh and if you're looking for more fun and games, visit Tees Valley 24-7 for a calendar view of what's on every single day! Meanwhile further north, Durham has launched its bid to be the very first UK City of Culture with www.durhamcityofculture.co.uk. The website showcases Durham's cultural talent and diversity. Find out what's going on across the whole county - in museums and galleries, in theatres and open spaces, in local communities and schools and get involved! Glue^TM A Multi Sensory Art & Design Event to inspire, influence and involve... Sunday 8th November \| 5pm 'til 1am Uncle Alberts (opposite the Railway Station), Middlesbrough Glue^TM is the brainchild of Robert Page (Tubbyphunk) and Nicola Parkin (The Wednesday Project) who have come together to create a high-profile flagship event to showcase multi disciplinary art-forms & design in Middlesbrough. The inspirational bi-monthly events will also offer the opportunity for many artists, designers and creatives to showcase products and skills in front of a participatory audience. Get involved or attend the event click here. Introducing the new faces of Tees Valley Over the past two months, visitTeesvalley has searched for two energetic Challengers ready to indulge in all Tees Valley has to offer, become ambassadors for the area and stand a chance of winning £1000 and the accolade of becoming the Face of Tees Valley. Follow James and Joanna attending amazing day trips and nights out with their family and friends between October '09 and March '10 and read about their experiences in their blogs and video diaries (from the end of October) as well as in the local press. Advent Calendar Online Another Calm Christmas is fast approaching, which means exciting times for Calm as Santa's little helpers prepare to personalise an Advent Calendar Online for a number of customers, not only in the UK but as far away as Australia and Dubai. Your personalised Advent Calendar Online lets you dazzle and delight your clients with online fun and games throughout the month of December. To find out how you can get your brand in front of a growing audience every day in a fun and rewarding way just click on www.adventcalendaronline.com. You can try out one of the games and even choose your own colour scheme. Daniel and Danielle Although it isn't mandatory for your name to be a derivative of Daniel to work at Calm, it must certainly help. Daniel Askwith came to us to support the development team with HTML mark up in CSS, and PHP. Since he joined Calm, Dan has been instrumental in developing some major regional projects, most recently Durham City of Culture, Face of Tees Valley and www.visitteesvalley.co.uk. Dan has also seen the launch of several corporate websites as well as sites that support the charities Ultimate Parent Participation and the Butterwick Hospice. Danielle Bloom is Calm's newest recruit, brought it to support the studio with design using the full CS4 suite. Danielle has a BA in Design from the University of Teesside, which has recently been awarded University of the Year at the prestigious Times Higher Education awards. Danielle was literally thrown in the deep end here at Calm, designing seven websites in her first three weeks! Watch this space to see her designs brought to life for Faris, The Main Project's Online Bookstore and Enterprise Hub, Bell Trucks, Icon Plastics, Acrol Air Conditioning and Entertainment Leisure Finder. Calm's Quest for SEO Perfection The majority of people think of (SEO) Search Engine Optimisation as an art to improve their search engine rankings, being a time studied profession that without putting a great deal of time and effort into it should be left to the techies. Wrong! Read more Final Thoughts ... We'd like to say a big thank you for reading our quarterly newsletter - we hope it you'll be able to make use of some of the information. As always feel free to contact us: www.calmasylum.com - www.calmdigital.com - @calm_asylum - @adventonline

Never a dull day here in the North East

With the launch of the revamped events-led website for visitTeesvalley and the bid website for Durham City of Culture, residents from in and around the region have absolutely no excuse to sit at home and twiddle their thumbs.

Calm Asylum has been lucky enough to be involved in the design and development both of these landmark websites that are jam-packed with opportunities to get out and about and explore what's on across the North East.

www.visitteesvalley.co.uk is the realisation of the Area Tourism Partnership's strategy to market the Tees Valley as an events-led destination. The launch of the website coincided with the Do Something Different campaign - you may have seen the big red converse boot out and about. Oh and if you're looking for more fun and games, visit Tees Valley 24-7 for a calendar view of what's on every single day!

Meanwhile further north, Durham has launched its bid to be the very first UK City of Culture with www.durhamcityofculture.co.uk. The website showcases Durham's cultural talent and diversity. Find out what's going on across the whole county - in museums and galleries, in theatres and open spaces, in local communities and schools and get involved!

Glue^TM A Multi Sensory Art & Design Event to inspire, influence and involve...

Sunday 8th November | 5pm 'til 1am Uncle Alberts (opposite the Railway Station), Middlesbrough

Glue^TM is the brainchild of Robert Page (Tubbyphunk) and Nicola Parkin (The Wednesday Project) who have come together to create a high-profile flagship event to showcase multi disciplinary art-forms & design in Middlesbrough. The inspirational bi-monthly events will also offer the opportunity for many artists, designers and creatives to showcase products and skills in front of a participatory audience. Get involved or attend the event click here.

Introducing the new faces of Tees Valley

Over the past two months, visitTeesvalley has searched for two energetic Challengers ready to indulge in all Tees Valley has to offer, become ambassadors for the area and stand a chance of winning £1000 and the accolade of becoming the Face of Tees Valley.

Follow James and Joanna attending amazing day trips and nights out with their family and friends between October '09 and March '10 and read about their experiences in their blogs and video diaries (from the end of October) as well as in the local press.

Advent Calendar Online

Another Calm Christmas is fast approaching, which means exciting times for Calm as Santa's little helpers prepare to personalise an Advent Calendar Online for a number of customers, not only in the UK but as far away as Australia and Dubai.

Your personalised Advent Calendar Online lets you dazzle and delight your clients with online fun and games throughout the month of December. To find out how you can get your brand in front of a growing audience every day in a fun and rewarding way just click on www.adventcalendaronline.com. You can try out one of the games and even choose your own colour scheme.

Daniel and Danielle

Although it isn't mandatory for your name to be a derivative of Daniel to work at Calm, it must certainly help.

Daniel Askwith came to us to support the development team with HTML mark up in CSS, and PHP. Since he joined Calm, Dan has been instrumental in developing some major regional projects, most recently Durham City of Culture, Face of Tees Valley and www.visitteesvalley.co.uk. Dan has also seen the launch of several corporate websites as well as sites that support the charities Ultimate Parent Participation and the Butterwick Hospice.

Danielle Bloom is Calm's newest recruit, brought it to support the studio with design using the full CS4 suite. Danielle has a BA in Design from the University of Teesside, which has recently been awarded University of the Year at the prestigious Times Higher Education awards. Danielle was literally thrown in the deep end here at Calm, designing seven websites in her first three weeks! Watch this space to see her designs brought to life for Faris, The Main Project's Online Bookstore and Enterprise Hub, Bell Trucks, Icon Plastics, Acrol Air Conditioning and Entertainment Leisure Finder.

Calm's Quest for SEO Perfection

The majority of people think of (SEO) Search Engine Optimisation as an art to improve their search engine rankings, being a time studied profession that without putting a great deal of time and effort into it should be left to the techies. Wrong! Read more

Final Thoughts ...

We'd like to say a big thank you for reading our quarterly newsletter - we hope it you'll be able to make use of some of the information. As always feel free to contact us: www.calmasylum.com - www.calmdigital.com - @calm_asylum - @adventonline