“There’s a clear direction … away from people thinking, ‘This is my PC, this is my hard drive,’ to ‘This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web.’”
Occasionally you come across a quote that reinforces up what you have been trying to communicate for ages, such is the [...]
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interacting with information
Posted in comment, futures, knowledge, open source, technology, web2.0 on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
building codes wanted for better future
Posted in architecture, built environment, collaborative working, community based fm, design, knowledge, sustainability, tagged Architecture for Humanity, building codes on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Received the following from Architecture for Humanity …. a great opportunity to share knowledge and skills collaboratively on line for the greater good.
We love to build. Therefore we are obsessed with global and local building codes. A few years ago, 1760 BC to be exact, the Code of Hammurabi was the first set of [...]
from brightgreen: how to use environmental leaders
Posted in fairsnape, greenwashing, knowledge, leadership, links, profit from sustainability, project management, tagged bright green talent on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday Bright Green Talent posted this excellent five point guide:
Dreadlocks, demonstrations and duck ponds – What does today’s environmentalist look like?
What are the characteristics of these environmental leaders and how can you use them to drive your business forward?
1. Big minds: Environmental leaders have a history of excellence in everything they do. Graduating from [...]
on be excellent
Posted in EFQM, built environment, collaborative working, comment, facilities management, improvement, knowledge, leadership, project management, tagged Be Excellent, Deming, EFQM, ISO, ISO 9001 2008, lean contruction, Plan Do Check Act, six sigma, Total Quality Management on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Around 10 or so years ago I was part of a BE (now constructing excellence) development group which produced the Be Excellent document and tool.
The premise was to increase the awareness of constructions relationship within facilities management and excellence through collaboration by mean of a self, or facilitated assessment tool.
What is Be Excellent?
Be Excellent is [...]
Modern online communities are the new co-operatives.
Posted in IT, knowledge, politics, technology, web2.0, tagged Information, Knowldege, Transformational Government, web2.0 on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The recent speech by Tom Watson MP, Minister for Transformational Governance, Power of Information, can be found here and is a fascinating overview and history of information management – well worth a read.
using isite as a bid tool
Posted in admin, blogs, comment, fairsnape, knowledge, winning work, tagged bidding on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I received interesting feedback from two individuals last week who mentioned they use isite as a knowledge base when answering bid questions for new work, to ensure they are up to date with current thinking. One of these was local, ie in the North West UK, the other in the USA.
I now regularly [...]
construction web tools discussion event
Posted in events, knowledge, second life, tagged second life on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
the Second Life construction group meets this evening to discuss web based tools and sites to help the industry. Meeting will be held within second life at the Public Works Meeting Area, on the Public Works sim (9, 117, 301) starting at 4pm SLT - (LA time) which is midnight here in the uk – [...]
Sponge green guide to buying a home
Posted in blogs, education, housing, knowledge on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bit late on this one as it has been picked up by Mel at Elemental and Phil at Zero Champion, but worth relaying across to isite readers is the Sponge guide to green home buying – a check list you can print off and take with you.
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Reminds me of the 10 Principle guide to slow [...]
efficien-cities
Posted in best practice, built environment, education, futures, innovation, knowledge, sustainability, technology, virtual worlds on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its clean and its efficient and its possible – its efficiencity – whilst the government dither on policy Greenpeace have produced an attractive and informative animation to show just what is possible in our towns and cities. It is a animated and illustrated portal to many of the initiatives and emerging technologies in the built [...]
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Posted in comment, fairsnape, futures, innovation, knowledge, resilience, web2.0, tagged Charles Handy, Empty Raincoat, guide, networking, recession, sigmoid curves, survival, Twitter on March 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The recent excellent BBC Life on Mars series painted a harsh, dark and in many ways ugly portrait of life in Britain in the mid 1970’s. It was in that this environment I started a career in construction, a young trainee QS, working a ‘statutory’ three day week with fuel and power rationing (only able [...]
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