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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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When will the UK construction sector finally embrace Social Media Marketing?

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I noticed this question on Quora yesterday – here it is in full: Will the UK construction sector finally embrace Social Media Marketing in 2011 and what will be their strategy? What Social Media platforms do you think, apart from the obvious Twitter, Blogs, YouTube & possibly Facebook do you consider suitable. Quora? Behance? I [...]

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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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The Foundation Works – Learning about Letting Go

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Yesterday I was at the Norwich Property and Construction networking event, The Foundation Works, as a guest of the organisers, Daniel Connal Partnership Surveyors in Norwich. This was the second event that DCP have organised and I can see why they are having so much success. For me the key to the value of the [...]

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Talking to Architects: CIMCIG Seminar: The Changing Face of Specification and Selection: Slides and White Paper

Last week I was honoured to speak to an audience of construction product marketers at the Building Centre in Store Street in London, about the role of the Architect in the specification process. I’m grateful to Ross Sturley and the folks at CIMCIG for giving me the opportunity, and for making an ideal forum for [...]

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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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The Real Reason Content is King

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Remember this conversation? Brick Manufacturer: We could build a Code for Sustainable Homes level 4 house with bricks! Architect: Yes, but timber is still cheaper. Architects might want to specify your trendy lamp, or your supercool composite windows, or even your boring old bricks, but if they cost more, they need to be able to [...]

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Architects can Learn from David Meerman Scott @DMScott

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Recently I’ve been reminded again and again that when I find something good I should share it. Usually it is something good that someone has shared with me, after all. So here is something to share with those of you who are wondering what I’m on about when I talk about using social media properly. [...]

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