Category: People issues

Apr 01 2010

The state of (construction) collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
1 April 2010

I spoke at the Collaboration Cafe symposium held at London’s Building Centre on Tuesday, 30 March. I was third speaker on, following StickyWorld and Slider Studio founder Michael Kohn and Axis Design architect Rob Annable, and my brief from Michael was straightforward: to expand on the blog post, The end of the construction collaboration era?, …

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Mar 24 2010

The end of the construction collaboration era?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
24 March 2010

[This is a slightly expanded version of an article from my pwcom blog.] I am due to speak next Tuesday, 30 March at the Collaboration Cafe symposium at the Building Centre in London. The event is one of the final contributions to an ongoing research project being undertaken by Slider Studio and funded by …

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Mar 11 2010

Top 10 Construction IT trends

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors, Web 2.0
11 March 2010

This is the original draft of an article I wrote that has just been published in the March 2010 issue of Construction Manager magazine (link to digital edition), alongside a bigger feature looking at the new generation of construction collaboration platforms (including Woobius, Collabor8online and SliderStudio‘s StickyWorld – all of which I’ve recently talked about …

3D, 4Projects, accounting, Aconex, APIs, Apple, archINFORM, Asite, augmented reality, BIM, BIMaaS, BIW, blog, BuildingSMART, Business Collaborator, CAD, CIOB, Collabor8online, construction collaboration, Construction Manager, contracts, CoverItLive, Daden, ERP, Gartner, GPS, internet of things, iPad, iPhone, Latista, Layar, LiveMeeting, mobile, Motion Computing, Pachube, procurement, SaaS, Second Life, Skype, SliderStudio, SlideShare, smartphone, Software-as-a-Service, StickyWorld, Tablet computing, tCn, the Construction Network, Twitter, UNIT4, Ustream, Vela Systems, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0, web conferencing, WebEx, wifi, Wikipedia, WiMax, Woobius, Woobius Eye, YouCanPlan
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Feb 23 2010

StickyWorld and the ‘Collaboration Cafe’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
23 February 2010

About 18 months ago I met Slider Studio architect Michael Kohn when he presented at the first Be2camp event I co-organised, at London’s Building Centre. I have remained in contact with him ever since (he spoke about principles of democratic design to another Be2camp event in Birmingham last August) and have just received an invitation …

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Feb 22 2010

Woobius simplifies pricing of “simply simple” collaboration solution

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
22 February 2010

Since I first came across UK-based low cost file-sharing and collaboration vendor Woobius in April last year, I have kept tabs on their development. [Disclosure: I have also undertaken occasional paid PR consultancy projects for the company.] Their latest news (see also blog post) concerns a simplified approach to the pricing of their core collaboration …

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Feb 01 2010

Collabor8online: talking low-cost collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
1 February 2010

I had a long telephone chat on Friday with Colin Barnes, founder of Collabor8online (see post), a little over two months since the construction collaboration solution’s UK launch. Colin explained that Collabor8online was very much targeted at the SME end of the market. “Recognising that for many businesses email is too messy and difficult to …

4Projects, AEC, architects, architecture, Asite, BIW, Brava viewer, Business Collaborator, CAD, calendar, Colin Barnes, Collabor8online, comment, Construction, construction collaboration, cost, ease of use, email, Engineering, estimating software, functionality, Google, iCal, innovation, M&E, mark-up, marketing, mechanical and electrical, mobile, MySQL, Outlook, per-project, per-user, pricing, public sector, relational database, Ruby on Rails, SME, Software-as-a-Service, time, Woobius
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Jan 11 2010

“BIW on the back foot?”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
11 January 2010

Nathan Doughty yesterday interrupted a long silence on his Free Collaboration blog to post some details of the latest filings to the UK’s Companies House by [my former employer*] BIW Technologies. In BIW on the back foot?, he references this blog and makes a few statements that I would like to comment upon…. I was …

4Projects, Aconex, Asite, BIW Technologies, blog, Business Collaborator, Colin Smith, Companies House, Free Collaboration, India, Nathan Doughty, SaaS, StoreData, UK, Woking

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Jan 04 2010

And the stats say….

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
4 January 2010

2009 was a bit of an erratic year for me blog-wise. This was partly a reflection of my change of career path in the spring, coupled with all the effort that has to go into launching and sustaining a new business (meaning that blogging on construction collaboration technologies wasn’t always top of my “to do” …

Aconex, APIs, BIW, blog, Chief Construction Adviser, Contract Journal, ExtranetEvolution.com, page impressions, Rob Phillpot, SaaS, statistics, unique visitors

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Dec 17 2009

Brialto

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, People issues, Web 2.0
17 December 2009

I received an email earlier this week inviting me to join Brialto, an online business networking platform as a pioneer member. It claims it is “the first online business networking platform to replicate everything you would expect to see at an offline networking event – rooms where events take place, a list of members and …

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Dec 09 2009

4Projects and profitability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
9 December 2009

“We’re not always given credit for the consistent profitability we’ve achieved for a business that received no early start-up funding.” I recently met Steve Nelson, finance director of UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects, to learn more about the history of the company, its funding and the 2007 management buy-out (MBO) – the meeting took …