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: social media
Green Vision for Social Media at Green Build Expo
Be2Camp returns to Greenbuild Expo in May with Green Vision. This year’s session, taking place on 8th May at Manchester Central from 1pm, will be the most exciting yet, with an amazing line-up of speakers (see below for programme). GreenBuild … Continue reading
Innovation Voucher Provision
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is making Innovation Vouchers available worth up to £5000 for construction and built environment companies. Applications are due to open on the 10th of December and close on the 23rd of January 2013. Fairsnape in association with IBE-Partnership is delighted … Continue reading
Posted in benchmarking, best practice, fairsnape, improvement, social media, sustainability, winning work
Tagged benchmarking, bidding, BIM, collaborative working, Construction Carbon, CSR, Customer Management, EFQM, innovation vouchers, ISO14001, last planner, lean construction, PAS 2030, social media, Strategy, sustainability
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Can social media power the Green Deal (and Sustainability)?
Earlier this year, through Be2camp, the built environment social media advocacy, we published a guide on using social media to improve understanding and application of Green Deal issues. This was discussed in a 2degreenework interview with myself and Stephen Kennett Stephen … Continue reading
Posted in comment, Green Deal, social media
Tagged 2degreesnetwork, be2camp, Green Deal, social media, sustainability
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Social Media: Awards and Events – London, Sept 26th
We have gain chosen to run our Be2Camp flagship event, celebrating the application of social media in the architecture, engineering, construction and sustainability fields during London social Media Week The half-day event will be held on Wednesday 26 September at the Building Centre in London WC1, … Continue reading
Powering the Green Deal
How social media can help drive the Green Deal programme. Great to see our interview article in latest issue of GreenBuildNews. (Page 16, special report) The original interview with Stephen Kennet can be found on 2DegreesNetwork The Be2 Social Media … Continue reading
Posted in Green Deal, social media
Tagged 2degreesnetwork, be2camp, greenbuild, greenbuild news, greendeal, social media
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Is the new Linkedin app a game changer?
I must admit I have had a love hate relationship with Linkedin. Loved it for its contact management relationship building power and the amazing groups which I see as modern digital communities of practice, Hated it for the clunky nature … Continue reading
Posted in comment, social media, technology, web2.0
Tagged evernote, flipboard, instapaper, ipad, Linkedin, Twitter
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Could built environment leaders cut it in a digital world?
An excellent Communique newsfeed from Nancy Settle-Murphy this morning, at looking at effectiveness of leaders in a virtual world. It strikes me this is a lesson perhaps for built environment and construction leaders as we move into a communication era that … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, leadership, social media, virtual worlds
Tagged BIM, built environment, digital, leaders, leadership, Nancy Settle-Murphy, social media, technology
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Five Emerging Themes in Construction CSR
A recent CSR in construction workshop ran some very interesting discussions on just what CSR in construction is, what it could be and what it should be. There emerged a number of salient, central themes: CSR is not a badge, … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, construction, CSR, social media, sustainability
Tagged construction, CSR, Integrated reporting, social media, sustainability
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Preston Bloggers Award for fairsnape blog
Its always great to get acknowledgement for this blog, hence am delighted to have received recognition from EAOM, an online marketing agency in Chorley, Lancs, as worthy of their Preston Bloggers Award. Part of our blog training process for our clients is to show … Continue reading
Social media in construction – whats happening?
Towards the end of last year the Construction Marketing Association conducted a US national survey of construction professionals regarding their use of social media. Of note is that 90% of those surveyed used social media, and of those 91% managed social … Continue reading →