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Tag Archives: recession
tCn – The Construction Network launches
Late last year I was contacted by Ryan Briggs, one of the co-founders of a new social network aimed at the construction industry. The Construction Network, or tCn, aims to become the sector’s most exclusive business networking platform and has … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, blogs, marketing, networks, PR, Twitter, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, AECnetwork, architecture, Balfour Beatty, blog, Building magazine, CIAT, CIBSE, CIOB, Constructing Excellence, construction, Ecobuild, engineering, Facebook, G4C, Glenigan, ICE, Jason Leonard, JCB, LinkedIn, London, Mace, marketing, Ning, PR, Property Week, recession, Reorb, Ryan Briggs, tCn, The Construction Network, Twitter, Web 2.0, YouTube
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Now BSD ceases publication too
Rumours began to circulate on Twitter yesterday that another UK construction industry magazine was set to close, and today I read Andy Pearson’s “And Finally…” conclusion to his December 2009 online editorial in UBM’s Building Sustainable Design (BSD): This is … Continue reading
Posted in blogs, PR, RSS, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis
Tagged AEC, Andy Pearson, architecture, blog, BSD, CIBSE, construction, engineering, marketing, media, PR, recession, RSS, Twitter, UBM, wikis
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Goodbye, CJ
Earlier today, the Twitter grapevine tweeted the news that UK construction industry weekly magazine Contract Journal (CJ) and its website, contractjournal.com, is to be shut down from the end of this month. The announcement by parent company Reed Business Information … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, blogs, marketing, PR, recruitment, Twitter, Web 2.0
Tagged advertising, awards, blog, Brian Green, Building magazine, construction, Construction News, Contract Journal, events, ExtranetEvolution.com, Guardian, Kirstie Colledge, marketing, PR, RBI, recession, Simply Marcomms, social media, Twitter
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Launching two new Constructing Excellence networks
One of the UK construction industry organisations I value most is Constructing Excellence, as it seeks to maintain the ideals highlighted in Sir Michael Latham’s seminal 1994 report Constructing the Team and by Sir John Egan in 1998′s Rethinking Construction … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, networks, recruitment, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, architecture, Carillion, CBPP, collaboration, collaborative working, Constructing Excellence, construction, DBF, Egan, engineering, Facebook, G4C, Generation Y, Latham Report, Ning, RCF, recession, Shonagh Hay, social media, Tarmac
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Element14 – a B2B online community
Yesterday I travelled to Birmingham to be guest speaker at a meeting of the PR and marketing committee of a UK construction trade association. I talked about how social media can be employed in a wide variety of ways to … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, marketing, PR, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, architecture, construction, electronics, element14, engineering, Facebook, FT, LinkedIn, marketing, PR, Premier Farnell, recession, Shannon Leano, Twitter
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How ICT policies can hamper PR and marketing
Catching up with a backlog of PR Week magazines over the weekend, I read a 22 May article, Comms chief face web bans. It revealed the results of a small survey of 100 in-house PR and marketing professionals in firms … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, marketing, networks, PR, Twitter
Tagged AEC, architecture, construction, engineering, Facebook, marketing, PR, recession, Twitter
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AEC marketing moving from print to online
In February I spoke at the CIMCIG conference (see post), and I highlighted a presentation given by Andrew Cassie of CIB Communications, talking about a CIB/CIMCIG survey of AEC marcoms professionals. I was looking forward to the full findings being … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, blogs, marketing, networks, PR, Web 2.0
Tagged advertising, AEC, architecture, blog, CIB Communications, CIMCIG, construction, Construction News, CRM, direct marketing, e-newsletters, engineering, Facebook, LinkedIn, marketing, Plaxo, PR, recession, Twitter, Web 2.0
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The internet as a lifeline for SMEs
Given that most of the businesses active in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sectors are small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs or SMBs), any research that looks at the impact of the recession upon SMEs’ use of the internet was … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, blogs, marketing, networks, PR, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis
Tagged AEC, architecture, Be2camp, blog, collaboration, construction, construction collaboration technologies, engineering, extranets, LinkedIn, PR, recession, social media, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis
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