Tag Archives: Wikipedia

Content marketing, SEO and an expert wiki (again)

In a recent guest post (Two elements of BIM for manufacturers), I talked about the creation of BIM objects and about how content marketing could help construction product manufacturers and suppliers reach specifiers. Content marketing – according to its trade association, the CMA – … Continue reading

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RICS members: Twitter’s not about “what I had for breakfast”!

[Warning: rant] If RICS wants to help building surveyors use social media effectively, they should invite conference speakers who know what they are talking about. I attended the RICS Building Surveying conference in London yesterday* and sat through a couple … Continue reading

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DesigningBuildings: a content marketing and advertising opportunity

As regular readers of this blog will know, I have been interested in the potential use of wikis in the construction industry since the early 2000s, and have long regarded them as collaborative tools, with people collectively creating and improving … Continue reading

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CIOB-backed Designing Buildings Wiki

Some coincidences…. First, the Chartered Institute of Building magazine, Construction Manager, recently published an article by me looking at some of the latest examples of construction-specific social media tools (see It’s Social, but it’s still media). Next, on Wednesday evening, … Continue reading

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Too many people who do PR still do not understand Wikipedia

Another “Wikipedia edited by PRs” scandal… this time affecting PR folk at RLM Finsbury (a subsidiary of WPP plc).* Today’s Times newspaper reports that Finsbury staff were anonymously editing the English Wikipedia article about billionaire Russian oligarch (and Arsenal FC … Continue reading

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Recording our cycling heritage

I went to the Building Centre in London yesterday to hear a London Festival of Architecture talk by noted sports-ground expert Simon Inglis, who described his ongoing book project Played in London, the latest in the English Heritage Played in … Continue reading

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CIPR publishes Wikipedia Best Practice Guidance

As mentioned last week, the new CIPR Wikipedia Best Practice Guidance for Public Relations Professionals (version 1) has been published today (see CIPR announcement). The guidance (to which I have made some minor contributions, and which was jointly developed with … Continue reading

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Wikipedia 101: The basics

At the London office of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations yesterday, I did a talk on Wikipedia, as part of the CIPR’s Social Summer season. As previously described, the relationship between Wikipedia and PR has been a bit tense … Continue reading

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Wikipedia: take an interest, but be disinterested

What do the following have in common? Crewe Alexandra midfielder Nick Powell Sir John Liddell, director-general of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy (1855-1864) building services engineer Max Fordham On the face of it: nothing. However, they are all the subjects … Continue reading

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Straddling the Wikipedia-PR divide

The recent debate about the difficult relationship between public relations professionals and Wikipedia (see Wikipedia, PR and CSR) has taken a step forward this weekend. My fellow CIPR members and social media enthusiasts Phil Sheldrake and Neville Hobson met yesterday … Continue reading

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