Category: Marketing

Nov 28 2008

Pettifer files for administration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Marketing, Vendors
28 November 2008

In a painful sign of the times, I read yesterday (Construction News report) that Midlands-based contractor Pettifer Construction has filed for administration. In the late 1990s, I had my own construction marketing and PR consultancy, and Pettifer’s construction management arm, PCM, was a client of mine. The parent group is clearly having a tough time …

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Nov 27 2008

Construction, ICT, marketing and web 2.0

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
27 November 2008

“The day a computer can lay bricks, is the day I f*** off out of the industry!” The above words (or a rough approximation of them) were repeated at a meeting of construction marketing people (CIMCIG) I attended on Tuesday evening. The story-teller was agreeing with Construction News editor Nick Edwards that some construction people …

Amplified08, Be2camp, blogs, CIMCIG, CIMCIG conference, ConMarcoms 2.0, construction marketing, Construction News, e-marketing, Facebook, ICT, LinkedIn, Loughborough University, market research, Nick Edwards, PR, RSS, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, technophobia, Twitter, unconference, Web 2.0, wiki
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Nov 25 2008

Aconex reports…

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
25 November 2008

Australia-based construction collaboration Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor Aconex has published its financial results for the year ending 30 June 2008. As with most annual reports and accounts, there is a lot of dry legal/accounting talk to wade through (thankfully, I am no accountant!), but for me the key points are: Aconex revenues and order book are …

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Nov 24 2008

AEC conferences, content and ‘unconferences’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, Telecoms, Web 2.0
24 November 2008

My friend Jodie Miners is now back in Australia after a whirlwind trip to Europe (and Dubai) that included co-organisation and participation in the London Be2camp 2008 event at the Building Centre on 10 October. She has been blogging about part of her trip – to the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona – and makes …

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Nov 14 2008

EE in Dubai – yesterday

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing, Telecoms, Web 2.0
14 November 2008

Some of my UK-based colleagues and friends have assumed that I must be on something of a Dubai ‘jolly’, but that’s a long way from the truth. Perhaps because I was on a short, intensive visit, I started Thursday with an early meeting then jumped into a taxi to get to the next meeting – …

Al Jazeera, alcohol, cricket, David Foster, Dubai, Gulf States Building Awards, Jason Leonard, magician, Neil Back, rugby union, Shiulie Ghosh, UK, Will Greenwood

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Nov 04 2008

Recession and the construction SaaS providers

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS
4 November 2008

The R-word has arrived. In his Brickonomics blog, my good friend Brian Green today talks, not for the first time, about “the recession in construction”, which he says “is looking increasingly desperate as the giant commercial sector appears to be heading for a nasty fall”. Earlier this year, like many industry people, I was hopeful …

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Oct 29 2008

Building webinar experience

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Web 2.0
29 October 2008

I sat through a webinar hosted by UK trade magazine, Building, earlier today. Entitled Improving Business Efficiency in a Tough Economic Environment, it featured a presentation by Steve Masters of BT, and was chaired by Ray Crotty of C3 Systems (formerly of Bovis). Reflecting Steve’s role at a telecoms giant, most of his talk was …

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Oct 28 2008

BIM, the project information cloud and an AEC ‘Cluetrain’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Books, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Legal, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Sustainability, Web 2.0
28 October 2008

Sometimes one’s reading and writing can throw up some fortunate coincidences. Take this morning, for example. Via TenLinksDaily, I followed a link to an AECcafe.com article by Susan Smith: The Road to AEC Project Execution Success. Later, my feed-reader pointed me to a blog posting (and associated PowerPoint presentation) by Stress-Free’s David Harrison: Making digital …

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Oct 24 2008

Windows to go cloudy?

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
24 October 2008

According to an article by Richard Waters in the Financial Times (Microsoft looks to cloud to open new windows – registration may be required), Microsoft may finally be ready to take a big leap into the world of cloud computing. He says the wraps are set to be taken off at a conference that the …