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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Why don’t we network with our relatives?

I’ve been enjoying reading Andy Lopata‘s new book, Recommended: How to Sell Through Networking and Referrals, in which he guides the reader through creating a referral culture through networking. I’m also learning a great deal from his video tips – and thought I would share one with you. In this video clip Andy describes how [...]

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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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Sole Construction Consultants – what do you need? #constconsult

The day after I let our clients and consultants know I was setting up a freelance marketing and business development consultancy, I got a call from a project manager colleague who wanted a chat. He pointed out that after spent fifteen years as a lone construction consultant he remained frustrated at the way his breadth [...]

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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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Construction Magazines and Journals – Online or hard copy?

When I recently spoke at the CIMCIG conference on specification our chair was Chris Ashworth of Competitive Advantage, who presented some very interesting research into the habits of architects and other specifiers. Now Chris and his company are conducting some more research to learn how people working in the construction industry are changing from reading [...]

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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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