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Permalink Reply by Marc Stickdorn on July 1, 2009 at 0:42

Hey Jase,

great project! Although I don't have an idea yet how you'll do it - the aim sound great to me! ..and the presentation already looks promising. I would highly appreciate if small companies would contact students/unis with concrete project ideas. Until now it is rather the other way around.. We have to find companies interested in our stuff. So maybe your platform could facilitate this?

Keep posting! :)

(..and maybe set up a discussion within the dt education group?!)

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Permalink Reply by Jason Cooper on July 1, 2009 at 0:51

Hi Marc,

Thanks for the reply. It's great to get someone involved in education view on the project.

I feel there's huge potential for universities to actually work with smallFISH and use project briefs downloaded from the website to give to their students. This will give that little push for students to get out there and work with their community and also smallFISH will be a platform for universities to showcase their student's work and what they've done for small businesses/organizations in their area. I can even see a smallFISH award for the university/student... but I'm getting ahead of myself here.

I'm in the process of putting together a business model, I'll post it on here once it's finished, will give a better idea of how I'm picturing things.

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Permalink Reply by Justus Bruns on July 1, 2009 at 22:36

Good idea, I'm studying Industrial Design Engineering at the Technical University in Delft. So it might be cool to introduce it to the students. People might be interested...

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Permalink Reply by Meena Kadri on July 4, 2009 at 7:17

Hi Jase

Exciting project -- and it doesn't come across as spam nor a cheap shot at all.

YMedia down in New Zealand have been doing projects which team up tertiary students with community groups and big fish through new media projects. Perhaps there's some lessons over there: http://ymediachallenge.co.nz/ + http://www.ymediagroup.org/blog/

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Permalink Reply by Jason Cooper on July 4, 2009 at 21:44

Hi guys, quick update, smallFISH is now small-fish.org

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