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Take a chance, take a chance, take a chance on me  This is the first of a blog series about what it’s like to be a part of the Hable team from a personal perspective. 

Bristol University is undertaking an ambitious project on New Ways of Working, read how Hable helped them to understand how the Surface Hub could enable their make members make the most of their New Spaces, New Tools & Smarter Working”

With this new Microsoft Educator Community series, we cover how you can get rid of your oldest and expensive to run servers to move your “biscuits” to Azure and create your own serverless school.

We are proud to announce a new partnership with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) that will see Hable deliver a Comms & Training programme to over 3000 staff across the UK.

Mark Reynolds founded Hable after leaving Microsoft, with a vision to use his experience in technology to help people do amazing things. In keeping with this, we’re proud to announce that Hable are partnering with Lionheart in support of Glad’s House in Kenya.

Introducing the HableHints video series! Quick tips from #TeamHable on how to use Office 365 If your job involves Office 365 and your institution has a subscription you can install it on five computers of your own, as well as five mobile devices, for full-featured home and on-the-go use! This includes Windows & Mac laptopRead more

What is Surface Hub? “Surface Hub is a powerful team collaboration device designed to advance the way people work together naturally.” https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-surface-hub/en-gb/faq A powerful interactive whiteboard One of the easiest uses to grasp is using the Surface Hub as an interactive whiteboard – though it’s way more powerful than a normal interactive whiteboard as itRead more

HP for Education, an industry-first scheme, helps UK schools get more value for money from their education technology by allowing those that invest in HP hardware to collect credits or cashback of up to £250 per device. These can then be leveraged by schools against Hable learning or technical services.

This year #TeamHable will be at the HP stand (D190) at BETT, ahead of announcing an exciting new partnership with HP & Microsoft!  

Introducing Review365 Hable is about to enter our 4th year. The first 3 years have been a tremendous journey, working with almost 100 customers – from the smallest school to the Houses of Parliament – and now its time for us to take the next step.

Hable are 1 of only 3 Microsoft partners in the world who are qualified to deliver a 2-day Microsoft workshop for large-scale pupil device projects, called the Project Management Resource Kit (PMRK). When a Ministry of Education (MoE) is planning to roll out 10,000 pupil devices or more, we are asked to go to workRead more

  On Thursday we hosted the first Hable Cloud Club in London. The idea for the club came about when we met a group of customers over lunch last Christmas – the Houses of Parliament, Save the Children and the University of London.

Introductions first My name is Oliviero Iurcovich. I like to define myself as a coffee-loving, Italo-Argentinian global citizen with a passion for technology in Education. I have lived and studied in Italy, Hong Kong and Surrey as a Management student. My drive and passion directed me to one of the world’s largest organisations, Microsoft. Here,Read more

Hable is almost 3 years old now and we’ve been growing steadily. To give us national coverage our team predominantly work from home and cover geographical regions. We have people in Oxford, Marlow, London, Sheffield, Nottingham, Norfolk, Birmingham, Bath and Mid-Wales! We’re the classic “Virtual Team”

Hi Everyone This is a short post to launch our new film: “Working Smarter“, made by the brilliant Dean Thrussell of Love Film Since starting Hable we’ve never really spent money on advertising, but wanted to do something to show people the output of our work.

For a keynote at a developers’ conference Apple announced a surprising amount of new hardware at WWDC last Monday. As well as “Kaby Lake” processors in the MacBook Pro, iMac, and MacBook ranges there was Apple’s take on the Amazon-Echo-crossed-with-Sonos-speaker, the HomePod. And there was the expensive, beautiful, wallet-shredding, VR capable, inaffordable iMac Pro thatRead more

Should we be focusing on learning how to “speak machine” or on building machines that can understand us better? While more and more people hone their coding skills daily, hoping to become fluent in machine language (and there is clearly plenty of demand for such skills) the world’s top tech companies are making huge stridesRead more

As part of Hable’s contract to oversee the institution-wide adoption of Office 365 we’ve been walking the floors of the University of Arts London. We went desk to desk to meet people, answer their questions, and inspire them to get collaborating with their teams more effectively. The aim was to show people what’s possible withRead more

Like most parents, I always wonder what life will be like for my kids when they grow up.  I try to get them thinking about the things they’re good at and relate those things to jobs or careers which I think they would be happy doing. We talk about why, as much as I’d loveRead more

This story was originally posted on the Microsoft UK Schools Blog HERE The following is a guest post from Gerald Haigh, and looks at the way King’s School, Macclesfield, has been planning for its future with Office 365 and the help of Hable, a Microsoft in Education partner. Office 365 is available to staff and studentsRead more

Last week Microsoft revealed more details about Microsoft Classroom, as part of a broader announcement about their tools for education (including Office365, Windows & Minecraft).

I just bought my first MacBook. I know, I know, the ex-Microsoft guy ditches all loyalty after leaving – but it’s not like that. This was strictly for research purposes. Honest, guv. We have a customer who is roughly 70% Mac and I needed to be able to train their staff on Office 365 and deliver presentationsRead more

I’ve just been reminded about how tough the battle between IT and the Business can be. I was presenting to a group of customers at a University and in the room were representatives from a few different departments. The meeting had been organised by IT and they had invited some of their business stakeholders

I was over in Dubai last week with Mark Steed (aka @indepdenthead) and he gave me and a member of his SLT some great advice on leadership. Being a football fan, it really rang true – even though I was a little embarrassed not to know who Carols Alberto was. His advice was this: TheRead more

I left Microsoft on New Years Eve 2014, so January 1st 2015 was officially the first trading day of our new company. Today (Jan 1st 2016) we are one year on and its been a brilliant first 12 months. One of my many new years resolutions is to blog more – so very soon I’ll tellRead more

The Council of British International Schools or COBIS are a membership organisation of over 400 British International Schools around the world. Their role is to represent their members and support school leaders, governors, staff and students in a wide variety of ways.

With schools starting up last week, we were busy planning and delivering lots of INSET days. I did one up in Cheshire with the brilliant Alsager School and one down in Beaconsfield with the equally brilliant Davenies – both of whom have just rolled out Office365.

It’s been 5 months now since we started Hable. As you may have spotted, I’ve broken the first promise I made to myself when planning our digital strategy – which was “blog often”. Its hard when you’re trying to fit everything in, hard when you are busy DOING the stuff you need to GET DONERead more

It’s my birthday today and seeing as I am now my own boss, I have given myself the day off. I will obviously still be checking some email and have one (short) phone call to do – but I will mostly be:

It’s been almost a year since Microsoft announced that they were finally bringing Office to the iPad. I don’t mean Office web-apps via a browser. I don’t mean those Virtual Desktop sessions which put your windows desktop onto an iPad and are impossible to license.