Tag: integrated collaborative working

Building communities ‘aliveness’

I said last week (Building online communities) that Martin Brown (Isite) and I will be facilitating the foundation of a new online community for AEC people focused on integrated collaborative working. Adding to the OReillynet.com guidance, Martin has emailed me an interesting 2002 article from Harvard Business School about cultivating communities of practice, written by …

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Building online communities

My friend (and fellow Be2camp member) Jim McHale of Memoori has just blogged some Oreillynet.com guidance from 2002 about building online communities: Exist for a reason – a community has to promote a collective goal. Users draw other users – Your most active users will draw more users than you ever will. Referrals might bring …

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Nick Terry

Catching up with the newspapers over the weekend, I read Ruth Slavid’s Guardian obituary of Nick Terry, until 2006 head of Building Design Partnership (BDP), who died on 1 December of cancer aged just 60. I first met Nick when he was part of the team working on the redevelopment of the Royal Opera House …

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