Interested in the Built Environment? Not sure about Web 2.0, social media, blogs, Twitter and the like?
Then Be2camp North is the event for you.
Following on from the world’s first Web 2.0 construction event, in London in October 2008, Be2camp North in Liverpool on 15 May brings together people interested in how Web 2.0 can help [...]
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be2camp count down
Posted in News, events, second life, sustainability, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged Angus Scown, be2camp, Charles Arthur, email, free our data, jodie miners, Jon Brouchoud, martin brown, Pam Broviak, Paul Wilkinson, pecha kucha, second life, Suw Charman on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With only four days until be2camp meets in London, this blog over the next few days will feature updates of what you can expect, and profile some of the events, speakers, and our sponsors.
More information and details of registration (its free to register) can be found at www.be2camp.com
OK, the initial ‘keynotes’ are shaping up like [...]
Think maybe over but thinking goes on
Posted in comment, events, second life, sustainability, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged Al Gore, be2camp, Eco City 2008, Elevate, Green Build 2008, Sustainability Now, sustainable stars, sustainable way, Think 08, Twitter, zero champion on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was disappointing to read Phils blog post yesterday that the Think sustainability conference and exhibition is to be discontinued by CMP, but the reasons given do make sense.
Having visited both Think 07 and Think 08, I would say that Think 07 made an important contribution to built environment sustainability, shaping agendas and providing a [...]
be2camp goes live
Posted in News, admin, blogs, built environment, collaborative working, events, second life, sustainability, technology, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged be2camp, web2.0 on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BE2Camp, 10 October, London
Web 2.0 meets the UK construction industry at a novel new event,
BE2camp, to be held on Friday 10 October at the Building Centre in London.
Having been part of the (international) planning team behind this event, I am delighted that we now have some details confirmed. If you fancy becoming part of [...]
latest Grid Works issued
Posted in built environment, collaborative working, comment, design, literature, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged fillthathole, Fixmystreet, GridWorks, wikitecture on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The latest issue of Grid Works has been issued and is available for download from here or from vendors on the Public Works area within Second Life.
Once again CivilE Writer (editor) has pulled together an excellent journal that illustrates how second life and other virtual worlds can be used to improve the real world built [...]
cities and intention and collaboration and community
Posted in collaborative working, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged emergence, weblins on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s actually about people making things together. What’s going to come out of this is cities and intention and collaboration and community, because the capability this thing provides is mysterious in the degree to which is allows people to do things together.
This quote from Philip Rosedale Linden was the turning point in Second Life’s beginnings.
I [...]
… on avatars
Posted in comment, futures, virtual worlds on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Was it just serendipity yesterday that minutes after reading the excellent Vision of the Future winner (Rob Ainsley) in New Scientist (8 Jun 2058: So, from today, avatars have equal status in the workplace. ….) that I read the blog entry from Pam (GridWorks colleague and friend over in Illinois) on her issues with having [...]
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does the built environment ‘get’ the web?
Posted in IT, collaborative working, comment, futures, links, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged be2camp, CEO's, cloud computing, saas, The Secret Life of CEO's, web2.0 on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CEO’s do not ‘get’ the web, according to the last of four articles in today’s Telegraph that reviewed Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave’s book The Secrets of CEOs and looked at the emerging web3.0 and its impact on business.
Web3.0 will have a profound impact on building designs and the way we use buildings, through for [...]
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