Recently, we’ve had a spate of users asking us here at Three Rings HQ to comment on the ways in which the Data Protection Act 1998 applies to their organisation. We’ve had to make it clear that we’re not experts on the subject, and we’re not qualified to provide legal advice, so any of our […]
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A thank-you to our graphic designer, Philip English
This blog post is a bit unusual, in that it’s not about the Three Rings system itself. Instead, it’s here as a big “thank you” to the graphic designer responsible for the new Three Rings logo which we first introduced on October the 27th. In fact, the logo had been waiting in the wings for a […]
Making Our Prices Fairer
Summary Starting on the 1st of April 2014, Three Rings is changing our pricing structure for all new organisations. Until 1st of April 2015, existing organisations will be able to pay an invoice calculated on either the old system or the new system (whichever’s cheaper for them). From April 2015, everyone will be invoiced on […]
A New Look!
From today, Three Rings is changing its look and feel, introducing a new logo and a new strapline. The actual Three Rings application will keep working just the same as it always has, so unless you’re a particularly avid fan, or deal with your organisation’s invoices, you probably won’t see any difference. Even so, we’d like to […]
Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 3)
This is Part 1 of a 3-Part series of posts. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here. At the penultimate session of the Three Rings 10th Birthday Conference, JTA presented a session entitled Where do we go from here?, taking a look at the lessons we’ve learned over the past decade, and some […]
Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a 3-Part series of posts. Part 1 is here, and Part 3 is here. At the penultimate session of the Three Rings 10th Birthday Conference, JTA presented a session entitled Where do we go from here?, taking a look at the lessons we’ve learned over the past decade, and some […]
Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 1)
At the penultimate session of the Three Rings 10th Birthday Conference, JTA presented a session entitled Where do we go from here?, taking a look at the lessons we’ve learned over the past decade, and some of our plans for the future. This post offers a re-cap of the first part of that session, in […]
Three Rings is a Non-Profit Organisation
Just days before Three Rings’ 10th Birthday Conference, an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company formally agreed upon a not-for-profit stance to guide us into as we move into the second decade of online rota management. We’ve always believed that, as long as we could afford to keep the company going, Three Rings should be […]
Unscheduled Downtime on 02/11/12
Summary: Between around 17:00 and 18:00 UTC on the 2nd of November, it may not have been possible for some of you to access Three Rings. This was because our DNS servers went offline. We have brought backup DNS servers online to resolve the problem and have also made substantial improvements to protect Three Rings […]
Three Rings – Then and Now
As part of our ongoing 10th Birthday Celebrations, we thought it might be nice to take a look at how Three Rings used to look, back in the day. We think it’s interesting the way websites change as technology and standards improve – if you compare what the BBC News Website looked like in 2001 […]