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 hand everyone [...]

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Are you using Google Wave?

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I’ve been using Google Wave for a few weeks, and spurred on by some conversations on twitter about people’s frustrations with Google Wave, I was invited by Gemma Went to write about my views on her blog at Red Cube Marketing.
If you’re a google wave user, or simply interested in what all the fuss is [...]

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Poll: Professional Services Company – what would you google for Social Media Advice?

After the success of our “Architect” poll I thought I’d try another.
The purpose of this survey is to find out what words Professional Services Companies search for when looking for advice on using Social Media. If you work for or advise a professional services firm, what key words and phrases would you type into google [...]

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Learn from the best US Professional Services Marketing Minds

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Sitting on my desk is a copy of the Marketing Handbook for the Design and Construction Professional, 3rd Edition, published by SMPS, the Society for Marketing Professional Services, based in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
Since its publication in summer, this enormous tome (it runs to over 600 pages with 64 chapters by 72 professional marketing experts) has [...]

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Delicious Bookmarks for September 29th to October 9th

These are my Delicious Links for September 29th through October 9th:

List of brownfield sites to drive development | Inside Housing – A new online database of London development sites has been set up by two quangos.
The London Brownfield Sites Database, set up by the London Development Agency and the Homes and Communities Agency, covers around [...]

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Architects aren’t paid enough because 1: they don’t make enough money

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There is a common misconception amongst non-architect that architects are extremely well paid professionals, but this isn’t the case. In November 2007 the Office of National Statistics published a snapshot of UK Salaries which showed Architects (then earning on average just £38,559 Gross a year) were 30th in the list, behind amongst others, Fire, Ambulance, [...]

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Why Take your Network Online – PDF Download

As promised, here is a pdf version of the presentation I gave to the RIBA Stakeholder Forum last week. Download the file (1MB) by clicking the pdf logo.

You are welcome to share this pdf as you wish as long as you keep it in its entire state – this enables me to comply with [...]

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Architects: Why Take Your Network Online?

Here is the presentation I gave to the RIBA Stakeholder Forum yesterday.
Why take your Network Online?
View more presentations from Barefoot & Gilles.

If you click this link you can view direct in the Slideshare site, and read the presentation notes (there is a tab – “Notes on Slide 1″ under the presentation).
All the links on the [...]

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Taking your Network online – Living:Room

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When this entry is posted I’ll be giving my talk at the RIBA, entitled ‘Why Take Your Network Online?’. Putting together the presentation has been an education in Crowdsourcing – asking my network to help me devise the presentation.
One of the many people who helped me is Angela Carr, a Dublin Architect who has a [...]

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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 and [...]

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