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Construction on Twitter

Looking for Good Examples of Construction Engaging using Social Media

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I’ve been asked to speak to the CIMCIG Marketing Conference in November about getting social in your marketing, and so I’m looking for recommendations of companies in the construction industry using social tools well. Things are changing and in the last six months there have definitely been some new players coming on board and plenty [...]

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What Architects are saying – your daily fix

Every day hundreds of architects all over the world share dozens of articles and blog posts from all over the internet through their messages on twitter. Now you can see a daily newspaper of what they have shared. I’ve collated the shared links, articles, blogs and comment of over 1000 architects on the twitter league [...]

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Architects who Tweet on a Map – version 2

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Click here for a fully functional version of this map Where are all the architects who use twitter based? As you know I’m keen to demonstrate how architects use twitter and who uses it. In the past I’ve found a Yahoo Pipes mashup with twitter and a map which shows up to the last 500 [...]

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Have a Chat with the American Institute of Architects – #AIAChat

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One evening in April whilst cooking dinner, I stumbled upon a conversation going on amongst members of the Architects Twitter League which I just had to join in with. The members of the league were discussing what architects do and how the profession can retain young architects, and they were having the discussion with anyone [...]

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Tweet To Woo – over to you

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Last March I was approached by the RIBA Journal and asked if I would write a short article about Twitter for their practice pages. Of course I accepted and you can read the article about Twitter and Architects in the May edition of the RIBA Journal. I’m not responsible for the corny title and subtitles [...]

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Architects use of twitter becomes mainstream

As we reach towards 1000 architects, students and practices in the Architects Twitter League, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on how far we have come. In January 2009 we set up this blog as a place to find architects on twitter – with a post on 16 January entitled Architects on Twitter [...]

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Don’t faint, I’m going to be in London

Cheshire Cheese, Tower Hill, EC3 Originally uploaded by Ewan-M In two weeks time I’ll be running a twitter workshop at the Emap Construction Marketing Conference in London. Whether you’re able to be at the training day on Wednesday 3rd February or not, fortunately be2camp are organising a tweetup (a social event organised via twitter) afterwards [...]

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Architects who tweet – over 850 in the league

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Welcome to the 162 new additions to the Architects Twitter League. I started the league at the end of 2008 as a way of putting architects on twitter in touch with each other, I hope you meet some new contacts via the league. You can see the full league of Architects on Twitter here. Each [...]

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Architects joining twitter peaked in Spring 09

Three months ago, with the help of Rob Annable (@eversion on twitter) I analysed the signup dates of all the architects in the Architects Twitter League. The plot showed a huge growth in architects joining twitter in early 2009, but dropping off before the summer. Since October, another 79 architects have been found and joined [...]

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Taking your Network online – Living:Room

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When this entry is posted I’ll be giving my talk at the RIBA, entitled ‘Why Take Your Network Online?’. Putting together the presentation has been an education in Crowdsourcing – asking my network to help me devise the presentation. One of the many people who helped me is Angela Carr, a Dublin Architect who has [...]

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