Publications and Talks

When I’m not helping people with their social media and business development strategy, I write things, do speaking engagements and produce live blogs of events. Here are links to some of this material which has been published in the mainstream media or on other websites. Links to relevant information, slide decks, are also included.

If you’d like me to write for you, speak to your audience, or run a workshop or consulting day, or even give you my ear for a hour, why not get in touch?

Upcoming Events

23 January 2012 – Colchester The Foundation Works construction network comes to Colchester for the first time and I’ll be giving the keynote in the auditorium of the Firstsite Gallery. Find out more about the events and book on the Foundation Works website.

8 February 2012 – RIBA, LondonI’ve been asked to Live Blog the Gate Safe Summit – read more about it here – why not come along for some Health and Safety CPD?.

27 February 2012 – Norwich I’ve been asked to give the keynote at the Foundation Works Norwich meeting at the Forum, so if you can’t make January in Colchester, why not pop up to Norwich instead?. Book here - its free and refreshments are provided..

Past Events and Resources

ICE (Institute of Civil Engineers) Mini Presentations Evening aka Petchakutcha at Anglia Ruskin University. Find out more here or view the presentations here.
12 Jan 2012

RSAW (Royal Society of Architects in Wales) 2011 Autumn Conference in Cardiff. The theme was ‘Practice makes Perfect’ and speakers included Christine Murray of the AJ, Fran Balaam/Michael Corr (Pie Architecture), Phil Coffey (Coffey Architects) and Young Architect of the Year David Kohn. Lorna Parsons ran a Social Media workshop. You can see my slides and read about the event here.
9 December

Association of Interior Specialists(AIS) Conference in Brighton. At this event I gave some examples of using social tools for success to an interactive session on social media which was a double act with Chris Ashworth of Competitive Advantage.
22 November 2011

Kalzip TeamKal Annual Conference in Chester. TeamKal is the installer network for Kalzip standing seam metal building envelope systems, and each year they hold a conference and award the best Kalzip projects for the previous year. This year the theme was ‘Managing Diversity in Construction’ and I told the story of how I began to use social media for Barefoot & Gilles, some of our adventures along the way, what I’ve learned and how construction companies might be able to manage the changes required to take advantage of the opportunity online tools offer.
17 November 2011
You can see some conference attendees feedback here.

Workplace TrendsConference 2011: Property is a People Business: Live Blog here– see the post about it with links here. A fascinating and very funny debate between Paul Morell and Paul Finch plus talks on the psychology, sociology and science of workplace design, case studies, a cartoonist, a poet and a song.

RIBA Housing: Creating Designs for Life – I live blogged the conference in Robinson College Cambridge on 13 October. Archive of the live blog here.

Chartered Institute of Marketing Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG)
Talking to Architects: The Changing Face of Specification and Selection
Slides and White Paper
22nd September 2011

Building Design
Why Your Practice Needs to Join the Online Social Club (an article about setting up a Social Media Strategy)
12 August 2011

The Architects Journal
AJ launches search for the most influential architect on Twitter: #AJtCn100 and
AJ reveals the top 100 architects on Twitter
9 and 29 June 2011


RIBA Insight Monthly Briefing April 2011
Marketing to architects – an alternative strategy to ‘the push‘

Just Practising awarded ‘Best AEC Social Media Blog’ at the inaugural Be2Awards
February 2011

WAN (World Architecture News) August 2010: How to Pay Your Staff (and Yourself) Well

Fresh Business Thinking August 2010: Twitter is a Serious Business Tool

Be2camp East – Web 2.0 and Property June 2010: Why People are Sharing Stuff Online

RIBA Journal May 2010:Tweet To Woo

Be2camp East – Web 2.0 and Property April 2010: Getting Started using Linkedin Properly

Emap Construction Marketing Conference February 2010:

Workshop – To Tweet or not To Tweet? For Construction Professionals – 4431 views on Slideshare

RIBA Practice Stakeholders Forum October 2009:

Why take your Network Online?