Reference Tree Regional Finalist In Barclays Business Competition

We are very happy to say that Reference Tree is down to the final 3 in a Barclays sponsored competition to win £50,000!
We would be very grateful if you could vote here to help us go for the top prize. You’d be really helping us at Reference Tree on our mission to [...]

Do you know how your Students feel?

I mean: Do you know how they really feel about their degrees?
I found this page on Facebook, it had 21,100 fans (far more than many degree related pages), and many of the comments on it were about exam stress, a lack of engagement in subject matter AND most concerningly a view that the degree is [...]

Knowledge Sharing

Knowledge is only worth having if you can share it

view from the top of the tree

Running your own show…
….would be a lot harder if it was easy
Reference Tree has been growing over the past few weeks and months, and with it I (amil) have been growing too. From a team of 1 we now have about 8 working full/part time on the Reference Tree. Each one has talent and skills [...]

Welcome to February 2010

First there is a thought of a Tree, then there is a Tree, then we launch the Tree into the World
Reference Tree started 2010 well with great strides forward in all aspects of the business. We are working towards preparing for the year the Reference Tree goes live.
Our development team are working away, and we [...]

Technology

Having completed our technology discovery phase in May where we studied the existing electronic book and textbook offerings that already service our target market from a technical paradigm, we determined how we were going to build out Reference Tree.
We have chosen to develop a web based model, without, at this stage, a downloadable reader. This [...]

University Relations

The University and Lecturer community is going to be an important element of the Reference Tree model. This is because reading at undergraduate and (to a lesser extent) at postgraduate level is driven by the reading lists that are put together by the lecturers and professors running the modules and courses. Therefore in order [...]

Publisher Relations

The model and approach underpinning Reference Tree has been discussed with major higher education book publishers and we are pleased to say that the reaction we have had has been very positive and we are looking forward to working with our publishing partners in the future.
As we sign deals and make progress we will put the info up [...]