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How I deal with Cold Calls

After a conversation on twitter about cold callers this morning, I was asked how I deal with cold callers, so here are my thoughts:

Remember the person who rings you is a person, and be civil. You don’t know who s/he is yet anyway.

Find out what they really want – If it’s your job to [...]

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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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Looking for your AEC ROI Stories

As you no doubt have realised I’ve been asked to talk about “Professional Networking” at the RIBA at the end of October.
The audience will be a group of around 80 people from the construction and related industries who in some way help the RIBA, by sitting on their committees, for example. It’s a thankyou to [...]

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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 [...]

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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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