Podcast: Mastering Continuous Improvement Through Agile Development
By lisa, 16.10.23
Earlier this month I was asked to be on a panel for the latest Evolution podcast, where I sat with other tech leaders to discuss "Mastering Continuous Improvement Through Agile Development". I was joined by Dwayne Pascal, CTO of Reveall, Gary Clark, CTO of SchoolGrid, and Evangelos Pappas, Head of Engineering,…
Have yours on the rocks: Moments on Mendip
By lisa, 18.09.23
In July we told you how we're helping Leeds University with their Dialect & Heritage project. Meanwhile August saw the launch of Mendips AONB's Moments on Mendip campaign, where you could see your photos projected onto the rock faces of Cheddar Gorge. Moments on Mendip is a community-led photographic exhibition of…
University of Leeds and Iszy: Dialect and Heritage Project featured on The One Show
By lisa, 31.07.23
We've been helping the University of Leeds with their Dialect and Heritage Project, which was recently featured on The One Show. The National Lottery Heritage-funded initiative aims to present a snapshot of the language used in England today, by understanding which words and phrases are still in use, and how…
Tom shortlisted for Agri-tech Innovator of the Year 2020
By lisa, 14.08.20
We are very excited to be able to announce that 18a's CTO Tom Freeman has been shortlisted for the British Farming Awards' Agri-tech Innovator of the Year, 2020! As always with these things, there was a couple of weeks between us being told and it hitting the press so we've…
Are NHSX being naive? And when will they delete our data?
By lisa, 3.05.20
Plans are being announced for the UK's contact tracing smarphone app, which will alert people when someone they've been near has started showing symptoms of COVID-19. Apple and Google have both suggested decentralised approaches to this, where you - by updating the app - notify the world that you're showing symptoms and…
Press Release: CropFarmer.app becomes FarmBudgets.com
By tom, 1.03.20
Farm budgeting platform cropfarmer.app has undergone a rebrand to become FarmBudgets.com. Tom Freeman, co-founder of Farmbudgets said today: We were delighted to be able to acquire the domain name FarmBudgets.com which makes the perfect home for our farm budgeting tool. Not only does it make it clearer what the primary…
Internet Safety Day 2020: Our top tips for staying safe online
By lisa, 11.02.20
February 11th is Safer Internet Day 2020, with the UK Safer Internet Centre celebrating the role the Internet plays in our daily lives whilst reminding us all to be careful how we use it. So here at 18a we thought we’d bestow some of our own personal top tips for staying…
How will Google do away with third party cookies?
By lisa, 22.01.20
The infamous "cookies" we all see a message about everytime we visit a website are small snippets of text that are stored on your browser in order to tell websites something about an action you've taken online. Websites need these for knowing when you've added something to your basket, or…
Introducing ModQ - the team generated content tool
By tom, 2.01.18
We are super excited to announce the re-launch of our digital marketing tool, ModQ.co ModQ helps marketers by collating all their TGC (team generated content) in one place. Too often if content is contributed by other people in a team or company it's scattered across email, What's App, text and…