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
Tag 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
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
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Tagged be2camp, built environment, business, construction, social media, Social Media Construction
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Ecologically Rethinking Construction
Jonathan Dawson, head of economics at Schumacher College, writing on Guardian Sustainable Business asked “How do we redesign a new economic theory framed by ecological systems?” A question we need to ask and start addressing within the built environment. We are seeing a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Biomimicry, biophillia, built environment, co-operation, complexity, Ecology, economic, Egan, environmental impact., Jonathan Dawson, Living Building Challenge, Living Buildings, Rachel Armstrong, rethinking construction, Route to Zero, Schumacher, social media, Social Media Construction, sustainable construction, symbiosis, water, zero energy
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Managing sustainability knowledge across social media.
After last weeks UCLAN Centre for Sustainable Development, Social Media launch session I was asked how to ‘manage’ and ‘filter’ what you can learn and share across the world of social media sustainability. It was not too easy to summarise in a few minutes … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffer, built environment improvement, Coffee, CSD, evernote, flipboard, google reader, Green Vision, instapaper, Linkedin, Route to Zero, social media, social media clinics, Social Media Construction, support, sustainability, sustainable construction, Twitter, UCLAN
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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
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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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UK’s first Best Practice Benchmarking Awards 2012
It was a real pleasure to sit on the judging panel for the UK’s first Best Practice Benchmarking Awards 2012, devised by the UK Benchmarking Institute in conjunction with The Best Practice Club and Ideas UK at the 2012 Ideas UK Conference … Continue reading
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
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Tagged 2degreesnetwork, be2camp, Green Deal, social media, sustainability
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Simple Rules: Addressing Sustainability
Addressing climate change, environmental harm and sustainability can seem far to difficult and complex to tackle, so often we dont, or we do so with approaches that are masked by process and checklist. Daniel Goleman, in Ecological Intelligence gives us three simple, … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, Daniel Goleman, Ecological Intelligence, environment, learning, sharing, simple rules, social media, sustainability
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Celebrating social media in the built environment
Only two days left to our Be2Awards, 2012 Social Media awards event in London at the Building Centre, kicking off at 1.30pm. As with our 2011 awards, the event, part of Social Media London Week, will be an inspiring combination of … Continue reading
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Tagged be2awards, be2camp, be2talks, Bikes, BIM, Coffee, cycling, Green Deal, London Social Media Week, RMI., social media
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A low carbon diet for construction boards
Question for you:who on your board is really championing sustainability and the low carbon agenda? Board members, as Lucy Marcus reminded us at construcTALKs, need to balance continuity with change, to embrace the changes in technology. From my experience in (small-medium) construction organizations, boards are … Continue reading →