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Speak the Web - Leeds Review

It would seem a splendid time was had by all at last nights Leeds Speak the Web event. The experimental format, developed by Dan Donald and Rich Clark is about presenting some of the topics that affect web design and development in a relaxed friendly atmosphere, where you can have a pint or two, heckle [...]

Are You Being Talked About?

“…for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
(Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde).
After scaring the bejesus out of his followers late last year by considering leaving Twitter Stephen Fry, the national treasure, announced a hiatus at the start of the [...]

iPhone Training Hacks into Manchester

Guerilla Training (a 3 Sheep venture) has just completed delivering Manchester’s first iPhone App training sessions at MadLab’s Hackspace. Training was handled by an experienced iPhone Developer, Sam Easterby-Smith and attended by developer’s from across the areas digital creative and development companies and freelancers, all keen to get their first apps into the iPhone store!
The [...]

Handheld Learning 2009 - The Quest Continues

The motley crew of mobile learning affectionados (myself included) have just completed their yearly pilgrimage to Handheld Learning 2009 (HHL). For 3 days at The Brewery conference centre in London mobile projects are celebrated and visions of future of learning are shared, debated reformed and then shared and debated some more.
The highest profile part [...]

New Mobile Technologies come to aid of Charity

Users of Greater Manchester Charity, The Furniture Station, are going to benefit from a new mobile and web based referral system designed and developed by 3 Sheep Ltd. The system will be officially launched on the 1st October 2009  at the Charity’s Offices at Hazel Grove Baptist Church at an event attended by the Mayor [...]

3 Sheep at Greenbelt Festival

3 Sheep is very pleased to participating again at this year’s Greenbelt Festival. Whilst I won’t be headlining the main music stage (despite valiant Karaoke efforts) I will be offering free half-hour web consultancy sessions in The Tank, the festivals very own cyber cafe!
This follows on from the very successful 3 Sheep “Building Websites for [...]

Sustainable Mobile Learning

When I was at school, around this time of year, we would visit Marks and Spencer’s for the annual school uniform trip. Uniform was compulsory but not supplied by the school, the same was true for PE Kit, pens, pencils, rulers, calculators and a whole raft of other supplies much of which had no application [...]

The Value of Social Networks

The announcement today of ITV selling Friends Reunited for a small fraction of the price it was purchased for should give anyone involved in the development or delivery of web based services pause for thought. The web has a tendency to create a massive short lived buzz around a service and then without a moments [...]

Spartacus Learning

I am on a train, as I write this, heading back from the Mimas (The University of Manchester) Mobile Learning - Telling Tales event at the University of Westminster. I’ve had time to have a great conversation with Graham Brown-Martin, Carl Smith and Sara Wingate Gray after the event. One of those great post-conference chats [...]

Mimas: Tellling Tales - Mobile Learning Event

I recently presented at the Mimas: Telling Tales - Mobile Learning event at The University of Westminster in London. Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester. They decamped to London for the day and hosted a great forum on Mobile Learning. Lorraine Estelle from JISC Collections gave the opening  and [...]