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MEMBER ZONE AWARD FOR 360 VISUAL MEDIA An innovative Buckinghamshire business, which provides visual content solutions to help boost their customer’s online presence, has won a prestigious award. 360 Visual Media scooped the joint gong from LARAC - the leading voice for local authorities on recycling, waste and resource management - for Best New Idea, alongside Buckinghamshire County Council. The collaboration involved the production of Google Street View and bespoke virtual tours, mapping the local authority’s nine local Household Recycling Centres. 360 Visual Media further raised the online profile by optimising and managing the nine Google My Business Listings for each site, adding key elements such as live messaging and product information. BCC saw 60% more searches for their sites between May and July this year compared to the previous year. Visit: www.360visualmedia. co.uk/virtual-tourphotographer
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HOWES PERCIVAL INVESTS IN POST-COVID RECOVERY Leading law firm Howes Percival has announced a series of new investments in IT, its people and skills development, as it positions itself for the post Covid19 recovery. The firm, which has reported a good pipeline of transactions during the pandemic and has expanded its Employment Law team, is keen to build on new ways of working in recent months and further improve its service for clients. The investments include a new client relationship management platform and client feedback programme, as well as enhancements to the firm's learning framework and 12 senior promotions. Howes Percival's chairman, Geraint Davies (pictured), commented: “We were in a strong position before the pandemic, having made a series of investments in our IT to enable more collaboration and different ways of ‘PROFESSIONAL working. As a result, we were able to SERVICES FIRMS adapt to remote working almost people - that's very much how I see CAN'T SIMPLY immediately. Howes Percival. REVERT TO HOW “The way we all work has changed, “The technology available now is relationships with clients have changed, IT USED TO BE incredible. There are elements of and professional services firms can't AFTER ALL THIS’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) in some of simply revert to how it used to be after all the tools we are using, and we are this. really excited by the opportunities this “We need to continue to embrace new ways presents. I think the image of law firms being of working and look for further improvements and quaintly old fashioned, is long gone. Or it certainly is at innovation. We also need to be able to develop as Howes Percival.” individuals and teams and bring new skills and ways of working smarter and closer with clients. The two things Visit: www.howespercival.com/careers together - fantastic technology and amazing, talented