I have just returned from a press trip to Sal island in Cape Verde – a group of islands in the Atlantic about 500km west of Senegal. The focus was a ground-breaking ceremony for The Resort Group‘s Tortuga development (see BIW news release), and it was a tiring trip. As BIW’s PR guy, I flew …
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Jan 23 2009
Collaborative Working Champions going online
Yesterday, BIW’s Woking office hosted the second joint meeting of two groups of ‘Collaborative Working Champions’ from Constructing Excellence (briefly, these comprise construction and property professionals who meet regularly to discuss and learn about integration and collaborative working, a la the Latham and Egan reports). One purpose of the day was to discuss how the …
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Jan 19 2009
No ICT category in CN awards
UK trade magazine Construction News has just launched its 2009 Construction News Quality Awards, which editor Nick Edwards says have “continued to evolve with the consolidation of some of the older categories and the introduction of some new awards relevant to today’s industry.” One award to disappear is the ‘Excellence in the use of ICT’ …
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Jan 12 2009
First footings
Like London buses, new construction blogs seem to come in pairs. Hours after welcoming Su Butcher’s new blog, I saw a tweet (thank, Mel) about Liz Male‘s new blog, Footings, begun last month. As a fellow construction PR person, I have known Liz, on and off, for about 15 years. She was also good enough …
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Jan 12 2009
Five 2009 resolutions
Reading PR Week magazine last week, I enjoyed a page of the “top five New Year’s resolutions made by the UK’s comms professionals”. Briefly, these were: Survive the credit crunch Embrace the digital age Win an industry award Find a work/life balance Invest more in CSR All pretty laudible, but I think the same five …
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Jan 12 2009
India SaaS growth forecast
A new survey of IT decision-makers in India suggests that ease of use and convenience are the top reasons for adopting Software-as-aService (SaaS). The study, by Springboard Research, also revealed the biggest barriers to SaaS adoption in India are a high level of comfort with on-premise applications and lack of adequate awareness about the availability …
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Dec 18 2008
Recession effects
The different headlines about the same National Computing Centre study (see press release) all suggest the current economic downturn is having some impacts on IT investment decisions, affecting the balance between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and conventional internally-hosted applications: Recession to strengthen SaaS appeal (Computer Business Review Online) Downturn spells stay of execution for legacy IT (ZDnet) …
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Dec 11 2008
BIW grows 27% to September 2008
UK-based construction collaboration software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology vendor BIW Technologies [my employer] grew its turnover 27% to £7.3 million in the year to 30 September 2008, it announced yesterday, with profits more than doubling to £1.1 million; the value of unrecognised revenues in the order book was up to £12.77 million (see news release). On both …
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Dec 11 2008
RBI construction titles for sale?
Reed Business Information has been looking for a buyer recently but the auction process has apparently just been terminated, prompting all sorts of speculation about a possible break-up of the B2B publishing empire – which includes UK construction titles (and associated websites) such as Contract Journal and Estates Gazette, plus operations such as Reed Construction …
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Dec 09 2008
Building Web 2.0 awareness
Fellow Be2camp organiser Martin Brown (here) and I (here and here, for example) have both written several recent blog postings about the AEC sector’s adoption of Web 2.0 tools. Martin’s post was also picked up by the US-based Construction Software Review blog (Construction needs to embrace technology, not avoid it, part 6: Web awareness) who …
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