Posted in built environment, construction, facilities management, sustainability, technology, web2.0, tagged Sustainability Now, The facilities show, Twitter on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Next week, the 12 – 15th May, sees a series of built environment ‘events’ in the UK:
Be2camp north in Liverpool 15th May (following on from the worlds first unconference for built environment)
Sustainability Now (13-14th ) Buildings Virtual Conference and Exhibition
The Facilities Show NEC Birmingham (12-14th)
All of these will use twitter as a ‘backchannel’ to enable off [...]
Posted in events, sustainability, technology, web2.0, tagged BREEAM, ecobuild, passivhaus, Sustainability Now, virtual conference on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phil Clarke at Building Mag @zerochamp has asked me to be a champion for the forthcoming Building magazine’s Sustainability Now virtual event taking place 13 and 14 May.
Still awaiting details, but I will be online in the discussion lounge on the 14th May and look forward to chatting with you there (and hopefuly drinking virtual champagne with Mel and [...]
Posted in comment, web2.0 on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An explantion as to why I have taken the decision to switch to a new twitter account;
I have long suffered with @martinbrown account which has had problems in not being able to contribute to #hashtags, random hit and miss with tweets appearing in searches or RSS (or not). This has proved difficult when wanting to [...]
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 [...]
Posted in comment, futures, knowledge, open source, technology, web2.0 on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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 [...]
Posted in collaborative working, comment, facilities management, links, web2.0, tagged Communities of Practice, CoP on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week I find myself involved with and or facilitating four communities of practice (CoP) , two new and getting started like the Leeds Sustainability Forum and Green Drinks Lancashire ( which after the second ‘gathering’ is becoming a useful green business network) one well established like the BAE FM CoP, and the Constructing Excellence [...]
Posted in comment, innovation, technology, web2.0, tagged AEC, be2camp, BIM, BIMstorms, CAD, CE, collaborative working champion, conferences, ExtranetEvolution, facebook, Facebook to BIMstorms, HND, jodie miners, mel starrs, Paul Wilkinson, second life on November 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Paul at ExtranetEvolution AEC conferences, content and ‘unconferences’and Jodie at I have no opinion world architecture festival have commented recently on the low awareness and application of web technologies in the AEC and conference world. As one would expect following previous posts here, and as a founder to be2camp, I would share the same views, [...]
Ada Lovelace at be2campnorth
Posted in built environment, comment, events, technology, web2.0, women in construction, tagged Ada Lovelace, be2camp, be2campnorth, Suw Charman-Anderson on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am delighted that Suw Charman-Anderson (Social Techology Consultant, Guardian writer and twitter-er) will be talking at be2campnorth on the 15th May in Liverpool on the inspiration of Ada Lovelace
(Well actually Suw will be presenting from home via web and video link ups so that she can attend (as in walk to) another conference [...]
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