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[UPDATE] Linkedin Workshops for Construction Professionals

Thanks for your interest in the workshops I’m planning to run to help construction professionals use Linkedin properly. After two days, here is a quick screenshot of the response so far: Blue markers are single people, red are between 2 and 5, and yellow are more than 10. There are clusters beginning to develop around [...]

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Jacksons Fencing and Security Factory Tour and @Gate_Safe Summit

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I’m working with Jacksons Fencing and Jacksons Security to help them work better with architects and specifiers, and spent a good day with them on Tuesday talking about the issues. Here’s a slide show of the factory tour I took with Helen from Zest and Marcia from Jacksons business development, who also runs their CPD [...]

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Social Media the big subject at Kalzip TeamKal Conference [Video]

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It was great to be invited to speak to the Kalzip TeamKal conference, not least because the audience of construction businessmen in their forties and fifties was always going to be skeptical about the value of Social Media to their own work. That made it a challenge, but also an opportunity, and I was pleasantly [...]

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Looking back and looking forward with purpose

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It has been an interesting twelve months for me, to say the least. This time last year I was in the uncertainty of hospital tests, but by April I had a 100% clean bill of health and could make plans. By the end of the summer those plans were set and I’ve spent the last [...]

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Building a Better Architecture Business with Social Media

Friday’s RSAW Conference with architects in Wales was an excellent opportunity for practitioners from across the country and beyond to get together and think about running their practices. As promised, here are the slides from my presentation. You can view them here simply by clicking on the deck below, or you can ‘view on slideshare’ [...]

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Green Vision in Leeds – Retrofit Reality (including the Empire State Building)

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On Thursday 1st December I’ll be joining Martin Brown (@fairsnape) in providing live blogging for the next seminar in Green Vision Yorkshire and Humber’s autumn networking series on eco retrofit – aka #GVis2011. GVis2011 is a unique series of events hosted by Leeds Metropolitan’s Centre for Knowledge Exchange and the Construction Sector Network, which bring [...]

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How is Architectural Practice changing? Join me in Cardiff on 9 December

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This year the Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW – @ArchitectsWales) autumn Conference is called “Practice Makes Perfect”. We’ll be looking at how the practice of architecture is changing in the UK. The current recession is dragging on and it is now three years since the first swathe of redundancies in UK Architecture, and [...]

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RIBA Housing Conference Live Blog – please take the survey

I’m just back from the live blogging of the #RIBAHousing conference in Cambridge today and would like your help. If you have viewed the live blog, either whilst it was going or since, please take a minute to complete the short survey below for me. It will help me work out how to blog better, [...]

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Workplace Trends Conference 2011 – Property is a People Business

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On 20th October I’ll be live tweeting/live blogging the Workplace Trends conference from the Royal College of Physicians in London. The Workplace Trends conference is dedicated to up and coming ideas about workplace design and operation, and the event has some great speakers including Michael Pawlyn who will speak about Biomimicry in sustainable design, and [...]

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RIBA Conference: Housing: Creating designs for life

Next week (Thursday 13th October) I shall be at the RIBA Housing conference in Cambridge and shall be live blogging the event using CoveritLive. This will be my first outing with CoveritLive, a service which allows visitors to read about an event and participate in a discussion through an interactive console. The system has been [...]

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