martin brown
Improvement advocate in the built environment with a passion for social media, wildness, music, mountains, walking, cycling, astronomy, geostuff, outdoor, inspirations, dark skies, connectivity, edge of chaos, improvement, natural environment, CSR, built environment, virtual worlds, resilience, community enterprise ... and more
Category Archives: knowledge
interacting with information
“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 … Continue reading
Posted in comment, futures, knowledge, open source, technology, web2.0
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building codes wanted for better future
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 … Continue reading
from brightgreen: how to use environmental leaders
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 … Continue reading
Posted in fairsnape, greenwashing, knowledge, leadership, links, profit from sustainability, project management
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on be excellent
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 … Continue reading
Modern online communities are the new co-operatives.
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.
Posted in IT, knowledge, politics, technology, web2.0
Tagged Information, Knowldege, Transformational Government, web2.0
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using isite as a bid tool
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, … Continue reading
construction web tools discussion event
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) … Continue reading
Sponge green guide to buying a home
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 … Continue reading
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efficien-cities
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 … Continue reading
recession thoughts and tips
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 … Continue reading →