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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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Community Land Trusts: Lets start Talking to the Enemy

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If there’s one thing I know about Community Land Trusts now it is that they are made up of people who have got off their backsides and done something. If you put aside your prejudices, that’s pretty much the model of the entrepreneur property developer, really. Something very interesting is going to happen to the [...]

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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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Are you Aspirational?

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Do you aspire to be in the Architectural Review? When you were a student, did you covet an association with the AR – thinking – one day, I’ll design a building that gets featured in the AR. Then I’ll have made it, but in the meantime, I will get a subscription as soon as I [...]

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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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Facilities Management – its about the Money, Stupid

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We keep coming back to the same problem. At the AEC Network meeting on Wednesday one of the great talks was on Sustainability and Facilities Management by Gordon Ludlow, an FM Consultant, non-exec Director of British Institute of Facilities Management and Chair of BIFM’s Sustainability Group. Facilities managers are in an unenviable position. On one [...]

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Staking a Claim for Web 2.0

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I’m delighted to be taking part in the RIBA Practice Stakeholder’s Forum next Tuesday 27 October at the RIBA in London, and I’m doubly pleased that the event is going to feature online technologies. The Stakeholders Forum is an annual event that the RIBA arranges to thank all the people who serve on their committees [...]

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At the AEC Network in London

On Thursday I was privileged to attend a meeting of the Architects, Engineers and Constructors Network at the Building Centre in London. The event was attended by around 30 professionals with a further 14 at least joining in online through the medium of a Ustream video feed of the presentations (thanks to Paul Wilkinson aka [...]

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What’s that big Green Button?

I love doing things online. I’m very practical about it; the main reason is that it allows me to spend time with my family instead of getting up at some godawful hour and eating a poor breakfast in a dank hotel with a load of suits. So any opportunity to network online is ok by [...]

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Signed up to Be2Camp North Yet?

Well I’ve just signed up to Be2Camp North, the ‘unconference’ happening in Liverpool on May 15th. If you’re interested in how to use the interactive nature of today’s internet world for the benefit of the built environment, why not come along? Online as well as physical participation is not only encouraged, its part of the [...]

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