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Pop Up People: Rethinking Our Town Centres

By Adam Tinworth on February 2, 2012 9:29 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Dan Thompson talks Pop Up PeopleOnline shopping. Out of town retail. The economy. Our town centres have problems. 

Dan Thompson, the man behind the empty shop we used for the Brighton Future of News journalism day, and the guy who started the #riotcleanup movement, is trying to do something about it. He's been running the Empty Shops Network for years, but felt that the focus had to change, from the shops to the people who made something of them. And he wanted to get the Government's attention. And, with some Arts Council funding, he's done just that.

And so, this afternoon I wandered along the coast to Fresh Egg's offices in Worthing, to hear about the Pop Up People report. 

Dan wanted to do something different, something that wouldn't just add to the 30 reports that are sitting on the Government's shelves, telling them how "fix" those centres of ours. Three months of workshops and discussions later, the report is a slim, but focused set of ideas called Pop Up People.

The idea is bottom up, entrepreneurial, flexible use of space, driven by people's ideas rather than wholesale Government intervention. Sound interesting?

You can grab the PDF of Pop Up People online, and I'll stick the video into this post. 

Want to know more? There's a wiki full of useful information and guidance. 

Oh, and I have some involvement in this. I've written a piece of "bonus" content to support this initiative, which is available to download. Please give it a read and tell me what you think. 

Continue reading Pop Up People: Rethinking Our Town Centres.

-7: Scaling issues

By Adam Tinworth on September 20, 2011 11:58 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Development scale in Lewisham

Property, Social Media and What Works Online

By Adam Tinworth on April 6, 2011 5:46 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks

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If you thought I was quiet towards the end of last week and over the weekend, there was a good reason why: I was preparing myself to open the RICS Social Media Conference 2011. It was very lovely of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors to invite me to introduce the indutry I wrote about for a decade to the ideas that have been central to my working life for the last five years. And I had a blast doing it.

Fellow speaker Kimm Tasso has blogged about the day, and I've posted something on What Works Online, a group blog written by RBI staff to help businesses learn, well, what works online…

A Property-Related Pause

By Adam Tinworth on March 7, 2011 6:14 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks

The MIPIM blog from Estates Gazette

A word of warning: things may well be quiet this week over here on One Man & His Blog. It's MIPIM week, and that means a busy week for Estates Gazette, the magazine that I spend several days a week working with.

A good chunk of their team is off to Cannes already, and I'm doing what I can to provide support for their digital journalism efforts from London. I'll also be doing regular aggregation posts, rounding up the best of MIPIM blogging from around the web.

And that's not going to leave me much free time for blogging here…

Guest posting on leases, bloggers and PRs

By Adam Tinworth on February 16, 2011 4:04 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Today, I was going to do a post about the blogstorm in Cardiff over John Lewis, leases and independent shops.

But I gave it to Stacey as a guest post instead. It's probably more at home amongst property folks, but I'm sure some of you will enjoy it, too. 

The Architecture of Social Spaces

By Adam Tinworth on April 28, 2010 4:42 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Fascinating reading from Robin Hamman:

In my post yesterday on using technology and social business strategies to blur the boundaries between inside and outside the business I noted that some of these ideas aren't dissimilar to techniques used by architects to do similar things with internal and external spaces.
I spent quite a while talking to space planners and architects who worked in this sphere back in my GRID editing days. I've been reminded more than once of their thought processes as I investigate out own community building efforts,
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Contract Journal to close

By Adam Tinworth on November 12, 2009 3:47 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks
People have noted that I tend to be quite upbeat about my work here (bar the odd rant or two) and that's because, on the whole, we have a lot to be upbeat about. But I ought to acknowledge that the recession is affecting us just like everybody else, especially with the news today that Contract Journal is to close, a story which Paul can probably claim to have broken.

Anyone near the construction industry knows what a beating it has taken during the credit crunch, and it's hard to see good journalists faced with the possibility of redundancy as a result. I've done a fair amount of work with the team down the years, especially with web editor Will Mann. They have my commiserations and best wishes.

A Taste of #be2camp

By Adam Tinworth on August 12, 2009 6:53 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks
The somewhat oppressive heat at be2camp has stifled my enthusiasm for liveblogging (I never thought I'd miss Le Web's cold...), so to round out the day, here's a very brief video flavour of the event:

be2camp Brum vignette from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.

A brief flavour of be2camp Brum

#be2camp - Building Value on Open Mapping

By Adam Tinworth on August 12, 2009 4:08 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Talking Open Street Map

I've just deleted my notes from this session, because just typing up what was said won't actually be very useful.

Here's what to do. Got to http://www.blurtonvision.co.uk and see how different data layers can be placed over the map to build a set of information about what the community is doing.

Then look at Walking Papers and see how that same mapping can be useful to, and developed by, walkers.

Cool, isn't it?

It's all built on Open Street Map, which is, if you like, the Wikipedia of mapping.

#be2camp : Internal Use of Social Media by Lend Lease

By Adam Tinworth on August 12, 2009 3:36 PM | Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Dave Glennon - collaboration manager at Lend Lease

  • Web 2.0 is a key part of land Lease's ICT strategy, from knowledge management to recruitment.
  • Martini approach to ICT - any time, any place, any where...
  • Aim is to be a connected information organisation and knowledge workers

Konnections is their knowledge platform. The Knowledge Incubator was set up, but not advertised internally. A few people found it, liked it and its use grew internally through word of mouth and evangelism. 

The blogs have been interesting. Every 2/3 weeks most senior people have put up blog posts (they're internal blogs, as far as I can make out). There are also individual pages for each person in the company. 

Forums were harder to get going, as people were reluctant to get involved, but use has grown. 

Wiki has been a useful tool for breaking down language barriers in a global company, and invaluable for dealing with the rise of acronyms...

Is it genuinely the senior people blogging? Yes. They are passed through the communication team, but are actually written through management.

Buy in: full and frank discussions or bland? Started bland, but getting more active and more opinions being expressed. 
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