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Construction on Twitter

Sole Construction Consultants – what do you need? #constconsult

The day after I let our clients and consultants know I was setting up a freelance marketing and business development consultancy, I got a call from a project manager colleague who wanted a chat. He pointed out that after spent fifteen years as a lone construction consultant he remained frustrated at the way his breadth [...]

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ArchitectMap updates – #manufacturemap, Facebook and @Studio_em

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Here are some of the latest updates for the ArchitectMap project. Product Manufacturers Join the Architect Map In collaboration with Barbour Product Search @BarbourNews, we have begun a ManufactureMap for construction product manufacturers and suppliers to join. Each region has a link to the relevant #manufacturemap via the master map here. The UK manufacturemap is [...]

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How to add yourself to the #architectmap: Simple Instructions

Want to add yourself to the #Architectmap map of architects, designers and construction consultants active on twitter? Here are the simplest instructions. Visit http://bit.ly/ArchiMap and find the map to which you want to be added. Click its placemarker and click the link to view – this one says ‘View ‘UK’ Architect Map’: Once you’ve found [...]

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GoogleMap of Architects Designers and Construction Consultants – Latest News and over 30,000 views

Since last week’s update the map has snowballed and we’ve been getting thousands of views every day. Popularity has its downsides though, we’ve had to make some changes! Here’s a run down of what’s been happening and how you can get involved and make the most of the map. Map goes Regional – how to [...]

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Update: Googlemap Architects Designers and Consultants on Twitter

Here’s an update on the Google map of Architects, designers and construction consultants. Now that we’ve reached 200 placemarks I thought I’d show you some screenshots to show how the map is filling out. Time for a bit of exploration I think. Once you zoom in there is plenty of space and collections of twitter [...]

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Map of Architects on Twitter – Part 3

The map shown here is a google map of architects, designers and consultants who use the social networking platform Twitter. View Architects, Designers and Consultants on Twitter in a larger map UPDATE: the map above is now a master map; read the latest post for details. All the users on the map have uploaded their [...]

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It is what you do with it that counts

The last few weeks have been rather strange for me. Having been an active user of social media for nearly eight years (way before that term even existed) I suddenly find my activites are of interest to the trade press, and the ‘architectural establishment’. Its very flattering to be asked to write for a publication, [...]

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Top 100 UK Construction on Twitter – the first list by influence

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Today Construction News exclusively published the first list of UK Construction people on twitter, both on their website and in print. The list is collaboration between the Construction Network (@tCNtweets) and Peerindex, one of the new tools which has been developed to help evaluate influence and authority amongst users of the twitter social media platform. [...]

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Architects on Twitter – an exercise in Social Capital – #PeerIndex

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As you may be aware, I’ve been finding architects on twitter since early 2009 (here’s my first post on the subject) and over the period I’ve looked at various ways of sharing them, be it putting them in a league by number of followers (sooo last year!), measuring when they joined twitter, locating them on [...]

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Consultants Marketing to Architects – An Alternative Strategy to the Push

I recently posted this on a Linkedin Group and thought it might be of interest here as well. The discussion was started by the marketing manager at a firm of structural and civil engineers in London. She wanted to know about marketing to architects in London. Here is my reply. Hi Alison, Can I answer [...]

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