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Construction on Twitter

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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 at this charming [...]

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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 architect in [...]

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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 the [...]

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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 a [...]

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Has Twitter use by Architects peaked?

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Yesterday I posted that the Architects Twitter League had reached a massive 630 members, and now we have a pretty good sample I thought it was worth doing some statistical analysis.
The massive growth of twitter in the last year seems to have been reflected, if somewhat belatedly, by a rush of architects, practices and students [...]

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630 Architects on the Twitter League

As you are no doubt aware, in January this year I set up a league of architects on twitter, and when I started there were only a few dozen.
Thanks to the enthusiasm of so many people, architects and not, we have now found over 600 tweeting architects, students and practices in the league. You [...]

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Getting Twitchy

We’ve had some reports on twitter in the last 24 hours about a percieved increase in approaches from recruitment agencies to architects in the UK. For example,
@Waybeesy, an architect in London posted “@SuButcher @the_architect trends: been receiving one too many calls from recruitment agencies -recession in construction over u reckon?”
My thoughts are:
It is the middle [...]

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Architects Twitter League breaks 250!

When we started this journey in January I could only find a couple of dozen architects using twitter, the networking tool which allows you to converse with people all over the world in 140 character bursts.

The objective of my search was set out in this post, was to find architects on twitter, to see if [...]

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A Design & Build Conversation

What follows is a conversation which took place on twitter between the evening of May 17th and the morning of May 18th 2009.
I’ve reproduced it here because it illustrates some of the massive potential that twitter has as a networking tool. It happens to be about the procurement method of Design & Build.
The Protagonists
Firstly note [...]

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Joining the Architects Twibe

As more and more architects get on to twitter and start tweeting away, they routinely look for each other, and with a bit of luck they come across the Architects Twitter League and end up joining, for a bit of fun and to help others find them too.
However, we all know that the real power [...]

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