Flickr fun stuff

First off, Planning Eye has just accepted its 100th member, a planner from Kyoto (hope you don't mind me grabbing the image, Akiyo?). This isn't just a place to grab images for presentations, or to give insight into other places, but is starting to become an exchange of ideas and networking. I only know 18 of these folks personally, and a few more by 'e-' so I think it's terrific everyone's found it and joined in. Onwards and upwards

Secondly, someone found a copy of the creative brief image posted there some time ago. Apparently it's the only creative brief on Flickr found with the search term 'creative brief' - does that make it a Flickr-whack? Have we invented a new form of playtime?

Other Planning Types?

A question really. I've noticed on Planning Eye that we have 75 planners but 2 or 3 folks are urban planners. I think that's quite interesting as their role is probably fairly similar to an ad planner - understanding or predicting a person's behaviour or perceptions when presented with an 'environment'. Maybe closer to digital planning.
I wonder what other industries have planners? Architects? Artists? And what their scope of work looks like? What tools do they use? If you're one, get in touch?
Perhaps it would be cool to have a planners-of-the-world unite wiki or something. Maybe a meta-coffee-morning?

Pictures. Lots of pictures

I'm super-impressed about the number of planners and planning type folks and planners from other industries who have joined Planning Eye group on Flickr. People are posting pictures of all sorts of things that I'd never have taken, and see things I'd never look at. It's wonderful to know what's exercising planning minds around the world.

The thing is I want to do something with all this stuff. The web is wonderful but people have to find it. It's the people who are involved who are seeing things. I think I might produce a booklet or somesuch and give a copy to all the planners and creatives I know. Don't know what good it would do, or what they'd do with it, but it seems like a nice idea.