Sarah Atkinson, Vice President Communications Europe at CA Technologies, said : “Kaizo had the most thorough approach to running a social media campaign. They will work with our team to establish a strong online presence in all our target areas. They really understand what it takes to create and sustain online conversations.”

Crispin Manners, who leads the CA Technologies team at Kaizo, said: “Unlike a number of brands out there who see social media as a new channel for broadcast communications, CA Technologies wants to stimulate direct online conversations to build relationships with customers, partners and online influencers. We are looking forward to helping establish CA Technologies as the best practice approach to B2B social media communications.”

About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com

This is the question which The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in discussion with Sir Simon Jenkins, will be examining at this year’s Tom Olsen Lecture, taking place at St. Brides Church, Fleet Street, the spiritual home for journalism.

With previous speakers including Sky News political editor Alan Boulton, BBC journalist John Simpson and Chancellor George Osborne, Kaizo is delighted to once again support the lecture which will take place on Wednesday 22 September at 7pm. For information and tickets please email Steph MacLeod on stephanie.macleod@kaizo.net or phone 020 3043 4151.

Ms MacLeod joined Kaizo, the PR and Digital trading arm of Argyll, in August 2009. Since then, she has made a major contribution to expanding business with existing and new clients, and as a highly effective member of the management team.

Rosemary Brook, executive chairman of Argyll, said: “Steph has brought great drive and enthusiasm to the company and we are delighted to welcome her to the Board so that she can participate even more fully in the development of the Argyll business.”

Ms MacLeod joined Kaizo from Bite Communications Ltd, where she was the Director responsible for the Consumer division. She has 14 years’ experience in corporate, consumer and business-to-business communications consultancy, working for agencies including Fleishman Hillard and Firefly Communications.

Ms Stephanie MacLeod previously held the role of director at the following company within the last 5 years:

• Bite Communications Group Limited

The Company confirms that there is no further information about Stephanie MacLeod requiring disclosure under Rule 71 and/or paragraph 18 of Appendix 1 of the PLUS Markets “Rules for Issuers”.

For further information please contact:
Rosemary Brook
Chairman
+44 (0)20 3043 4169
rosemary.brook@kaizo.net

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The event challenged communicators and press officers from the research funding organisations of 17 European countries to investigate new ways to engage their stakeholders in the research they fund.

The “science and social media” session involved the use of case studies and introduced a “social media toolkit” to raise awareness of the opportunities posed by social media to enable ESF member organisations to increase public engagement and develop their relationship with the researchers.

Emma Potter, Consultant at Kaizo, said: “With so many stakeholders to please and considering the current pressure on research budgets, it is no wonder that funding organisations have anxieties about using social media. This session was designed to put some anxieties to rest and demonstrating the opportunities posed by social media to this audience.”

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For more information please contact:

Emma Potter
Kaizo
020 3043 4191
Emma.potter@kaizo.net

A worrying proportion of young people expressed concern about their future job prospects according to new research released today by CitizenCard, the government-approved proof of age scheme. One in five young people believe it will take them a year or longer to get the job they want in the current economic climate, while 12% think they will never find the job they want.

There were pockets of optimism among those questioned, however. 11% said they expect to find the job they want immediately and 34% said they thought it would only take six months.

According to the Government’s latest labour market figures, nearly 1 million young people are currently unemployed .

CitizenCard’s research, which investigates young people’s concerns about the recession, also shows that a quarter of 16-21 year olds (24%) don’t expect to leave home for three to five years. One third of those asked said they expect to move home between one and three years’ time. 7% expect to still be living with Mum and Dad when they are 30 because they won’t be able to afford to fly the nest.

Andrew Chevis, CEO of CitizenCard, said today of the research: “Although some people are optimistic about their future, it is worrying to see how pessimistic young people are today about the opportunities that are out there. While young people are concerned with such pressing issues as unemployment, CitizenCard provides a solution to another frustrating issue: proof-of-age identification. Our research shows that 77% of 16-21 year olds are asked for their ID between one and four times a week”

Launched in 1999, CitizenCard is a proof of age card supported by the government, police and trading standards. The 2 millionth CitizenCard was issued to Adrian Edwards, aged 18. As the 2 millionth cardholder, Adrian was given his new CitizenCard by Coronation Street’s Sophie Webster (in real life actress Brooke Vincent, who is also 18) at a ceremony in Manchester.
Andrew Chevis continued: “Although the government has scrapped national ID cards, young people are regularly asked for ID. CitizenCards, which feature the Government-approved PASS (Proof of Age Standards Scheme) hologram, are available at half the cost of the national ID card and at no cost to the taxpayer.”

23 June, 2010 – Quantum Corp. (NYSE:QTM), the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, has been awarded ‘Deduplication Product of the Year’ and ‘Best Tape Product’ at the 2010 Storage Awards: The Storries VII, for its DXi6500 disk backup solution and Scalar i6000 tape library.

Leveraging Quantum’s patented data deduplication technology, the DXi6500 allows users to add policy-based deduplication, remote replication, and direct tape creation to their backup strategy to increase performance, enhance data protection and reduce costs.

The Scalar i6000 incorporates Quantum’s next-generation iLayer software with new innovative archiving capabilities and management benefits, providing enterprise customers with a long-term archive and data retention solution optimised for the evolving role of tape in data protection.

More than 25,000 votes were cast by the readers of Storage Magazine, the UK’s leading IT storage publication, recognising excellence and innovation in the UK storage industry.

Steve Mackey, area sales director Northern Europe, Quantum, said: “We would like to thank our users and peers within the storage industry for recognising not just one, but two of our leading products by voting for us in this year’s Storage Awards. We’re delighted to be able to build on the success of last year’s ‘Storage Product of the Year’ award and demonstrate we truly understand our customers’ complex data requirements and have a range of industry leading products and solutions that address those needs.”

As Uruguay was busy destroying host nation South Africa on the football pitch last night, the hopes and dreams of many a PR team were being celebrated/dashed at the 2010 CIPR Excellence Awards. Held at the new Park Plaza Hotel on Westminster Bridge, the great and the good (along with Crew Kaizo of course!) gathered with baited breath, to hear the results.

 We were finalists in the hotly contested Best Media Relations category for our ‘Do You Flip?’ Cisco Consumer Christmas campaign. With over a 120 entries we had been whittled down to the final six. Despite receiving some fantastic comments including ‘Clearly one of the best examples of a consumer media relations campaign’ we were ultimately pipped to the post by a great idea from a rather large insurance brand. Who said insurance couldn’t be exciting!

 Overall, great night had by all and here’s to next year…

One year on, the Heart Age Tool is going strong. It’s been successfully rolled out in 9 countries and 2,437,219 people having taken the test on the new tool. What a difference a year makes!

Take the Heart Age test yourself at www.heartagecalculator.com and find out how young your heart is.

With more than 20 years of experience in PR and Marketing, Corinna Voss is Managing Director of the renowned Munich-based agency HBI International PR & MarCom. Among her experience, she has worked for several clients from the IT sector, tourism and renewable energies. She studied Political Science/Anglistics and Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and did her Magister Artium in Political Science.

The appointment was officially confirmed at Worldcom’s AGM (Annual General Meeting) held in Shanghai from 18 to 21st May, and has become effective immediately. With 34 partner agencies in the EMEA region, many of them added during 2009 and the first months of 2010, Worldcom already covers a vast territory in Europe and the Middle East. In this context, Corinna has set up as an important objective the addition of new members in Africa. Besides, she will be working on the internal communication of the network at a regional level, in order to strengthen the relationship between members and ease the integration of the new partners.

“I’m looking forward to lead the consolidation of the network as a solid and experienced PR group”, Corinna said, after assuming her new position, and added: “We will continue investing and developing web 2.0 initiatives and also in creating synergies between agencies that allow us to deliver added value proposals for our clients in the vast variety of areas covered by our partners in EMEA”.

About Worldcom PR Group
Worldcom Public Relations Group is the world’s leading partnership of independently owned public relations counseling firms, with some 109 offices in 95 cities worldwide. Established in 1988, it was formed so that the strongest, most capable independent public relations firms could serve national, international and multi-national clients while retaining the flexibility and client-service focus inherent in independent agencies. Through The Worldcom Group, clients have on-demand access to in-depth communications expertise from professionals who understand the language, culture and customs of the geographic arenas in which they operate. Visit www.worldcomgroup.com for more information.

Worldcom EMEA currently comprises 34 agencies with strong expertise in consumer, healthcare, travel & tourism, technology, energy & environment, financial services, investor relations, public affairs and crisis & issues management. Clients include Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Panasonic, Sony Ericson, LG Electronics, the EU Anti-Tobacco Campaign, Verbatim and Palm. Visit www.worldcomprgroupemea.com for more information.

In the product category we picked up the award for best European Webcast for our campaign for Unilever entitled “What If People’s Hearts Stayed Young?” which promoted globally a joint initiative with the WHF as well as encouraging uptake of Unilever Becel’s Heart Age online tool. The campaign was also shortlisted in the Best Multi Country Programme Category.

We also picked up the awards for Best European Product Media Relations for “Do you Flip?” a campaign for Flip Video (part of Cisco) to drive awareness and sales amongst youth audiences and mums. The campaign also picked up a certificate of Excellence for Best use of Broadcast for the same campaign.

Both awards have taken pride of place in our reception and are having hourly polishes…