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!
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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 [...]
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Posted 01 October 2009
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Also tagged: 3 sheep, award, charity, community commitment, creating mobile websites, furniture station, incubator, innovation, mayor of stockport, mbs incubator, mobile web, nwda, stockport, stockport homes
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 [...]
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Posted 06 August 2009
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general § web development
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Also tagged: 3 sheep, desmond morris, digital, facebook, fiscal, friends, friends reunited, hub, ITV, myspace, social networks, technology, twitter, value, web
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s weird I ask the question, is “Mobile Learning worth it?” and a few hours later in my in-box I get notification of Chris Nash’s The End of the MLearning Revolution over at Handheld Learning, a forum I have been a member of for quite a while now.
I’ve always championed large scale access to Mobile [...]
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Posted 08 July 2009
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3 sheep § convergence § learning § mlearning § mobile § mobile web § presentations § training
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Also tagged: 3 sheep, award, chris nash, Handheld Learning, learning, mimas, mimasmob09, mlearning revolution, mobile event, mobile learning, mobile web, Stockport College, telling tales, The University of Manchester, Trafford College, training
So can we really do it? Mobile learning surely it’s just a buzz phrase that hooks in a bit of funding every now and again for various quirky projects?
I’ll be speaking next week at the Mimas (The University of Manchester) Mobile Learning: Telling Tales event on the subject of “Changing Gear - Implementing Mobile Learning”. [...]
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Posted 03 July 2009
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3 sheep § convergence § mlearning § mobile § mobile web § presentations
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Also tagged: 3 sheep, creating mobile websites, formal learning, Hairdressing Training, Hairdressing Training for Mobiles, informal learning, innovation, iphone, mimas, mimasmob09, mlearn, mlearning, mobile, mobile event, mobile learning, mobile web, molenet, Stockport College, Trafford College, University of Manchester
I’ll be speaking at the European Patent Forum and PATINNOVA 2009 on April 29 2009 in Prague and looking at the impact of “Open Innovation” on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. It’s a conference I am looking forward to participating in. The Open Innovation model is really important in mobile and web technologies convergence, so [...]
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Posted 19 April 2009
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3 sheep § web strategy
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Also tagged: 3 sheep, convegence, digital rights management, intellectual property, ipr, mobile, mobile web, open innovation, patinnova, patinnova 2009, stuart smith
It’s been snowing in the UK. More is forecast. When this happens sooner or later in any conversation you will hear just how ill prepared we are for it and for many businesses and organisations productivity comes to a halt and days are lost.
Snow, ice, windy - bad weather changes things, the travel plans are [...]
The UK Government is planning to boost the profile of the Digital Industry (BBC), which is worth £50 billion to the UK economy. Among the announcements are plans to improve broadband speed and access across the country. The report (Digital Britain) led by Lord Carter also demonstrates the increasing prominent role of convergence technologies with [...]