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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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GoogleMap of Architects Designers and Construction Consultants – Latest News and over 30,000 views

Since last week’s update the map has snowballed and we’ve been getting thousands of views every day. Popularity has its downsides though, we’ve had to make some changes! Here’s a run down of what’s been happening and how you can get involved and make the most of the map. Map goes Regional – how to [...]

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Update: Googlemap Architects Designers and Consultants on Twitter

Here’s an update on the Google map of Architects, designers and construction consultants. Now that we’ve reached 200 placemarks I thought I’d show you some screenshots to show how the map is filling out. Time for a bit of exploration I think. Once you zoom in there is plenty of space and collections of twitter [...]

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Map of Architects on Twitter – Part 3

The map shown here is a google map of architects, designers and consultants who use the social networking platform Twitter. View Architects, Designers and Consultants on Twitter in a larger map UPDATE: the map above is now a master map; read the latest post for details. All the users on the map have uploaded their [...]

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UK Construction People Crowdsourced to help rebuild after riots – #RiotRebuild

Following the riots in cities across England over the last few days, two architecture graduates, Lee Wilshire and Nick Varey have set up a venture to put property owners and tenants in touch with construction people willing to volunteer their help with informal advice, materials or labour. RiotRebuild, which has a blog/website, facebook page and [...]

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What can Construction Companies do about Social Media?

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Construction companies are mostly Business-to-Business concerns. As a result they have been slow to exploit social tools in their businesses on two fronts – construction generally is not an early adopter of new technologies, and the Business-to-Business case for social media has not yet made the same impact as Business-to-Consumer has. However, in the competitive [...]

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Top 100 UK Construction on Twitter – the first list by influence

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Today Construction News exclusively published the first list of UK Construction people on twitter, both on their website and in print. The list is collaboration between the Construction Network (@tCNtweets) and Peerindex, one of the new tools which has been developed to help evaluate influence and authority amongst users of the twitter social media platform. [...]

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Looking for Good Examples of Construction Engaging using Social Media

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I’ve been asked to speak to the CIMCIG Marketing Conference in November about getting social in your marketing, and so I’m looking for recommendations of companies in the construction industry using social tools well. Things are changing and in the last six months there have definitely been some new players coming on board and plenty [...]

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Getting Twitchy

We’ve had some reports on twitter in the last 24 hours about a percieved increase in approaches from recruitment agencies to architects in the UK. For example, @Waybeesy, an architect in London posted “@SuButcher @the_architect trends: been receiving one too many calls from recruitment agencies -recession in construction over u reckon?” My thoughts are: It [...]

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A Design & Build Conversation

What follows is a conversation which took place on twitter between the evening of May 17th and the morning of May 18th 2009. I’ve reproduced it here because it illustrates some of the massive potential that twitter has as a networking tool. It happens to be about the procurement method of Design & Build. The [...]

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