Category: Web 2.0

Feb 19 2009

Out of the blue: LotusLive

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
19 February 2009

About a year ago, I wrote a short post about IBM’s prototype Bluehouse product (see IBM targets SME collaboration with SaaS Bluehouse). Today at Public Service Events’ Construction Project Management ’09 conference at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, I had chance to get a quick update on latest iteration of that product from the team …

blogs, Bluehouse, bookmarking, Brendan Tutt, communities, Construction Project Management, Dogear, eWeek story, file sharing, Flickr, IBM, Kalexo, LinkedIn, Lotus Connections, LotusLive, Manchester, portal, Public Service Events, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Skype, Social Media, social networkingm, Software-as-a-Service, Twitter, Web 2.0, WebEx, widgets

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Feb 10 2009

Show Us a Better Way: update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Future, Web 2.0
10 February 2009

I wrote several times last year about, Show Us a Better Way, the UK Cabinet Office’s competition to make more information publicly available (see 07 November 2008 post). The SUABW blog now has an update about progress on the shortlisted finalists – some of which are directly related to the built environment, including a Roadworks …

built environment, Cabinet Office, Roadworks API, Show Us a Better Way, UK

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Feb 03 2009

Let’s make construction more ‘social’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
3 February 2009

[This is a re-post of a blog article I wrote for Building Sustainable Design, which launched this week.] I have spent more than half my career in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) and property industry looking at issues relating to collaboration, and since 2000 have been focused on how to use internet-based technologies to …

AEC, age, architecture, Be2camp, blog, Building Centre, Building Sustainable Design, climate change, collaboration, conservatism, Constructing Excellence, Construction, design, economic, Engineering, environmental, extranets, FM, iGoogle, Institution of Civil Engineers, internet, Latham Report, London, mobile devices, Ning, Pam Broviak, PCs, people, people and processes, Planet, planning, profit, RIBA, RSS, Second Life, social, Social Media, social networking, Strategic Forum for Construction, sustainable built environment, tagging, technology, three Ps, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis

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Feb 03 2009

Building Sustainable Design

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Marketing, Sustainability, Web 2.0
3 February 2009

The first issue of Building Sustainable Design is now out, accompanied by a website, blog, multiple RSS feeds, Twitterfeed, and other features we have grown to associate with publications in the UBM (Building magazine) stable (I liked the short video welcome from editor Andy Pearson – a nice touch). Aimed at readers in the low-energy …

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Feb 02 2009

Tackling ‘the interweb thingy’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Web 2.0
2 February 2009

Over the weekend, I enjoyed reading a BBC Business article by Tim Weber from last week’s economic summit in Davos. In How companies tackle the interweb thingy, he points out that while every company worth its salt has a website, many “are still struggling to move beyond having a colourful website towards really using the …

advertising, AEC, architecture, awareness, BBC, blogs, brand, Brian Green, Brickonomics, Building, conservatism, constant product development, Construction, Construction Space, Contract Journal, Davos, digital confidence, discussion forums, economic summit, Econsultancy, Engineering, Facebook, feedback, fraud prevention, honesty, human interaction in a virtual world, ICT, interweb thingy, network security, partners, privacy, recession, recommendation, Social Media, spam, Tim Weber, transparency, Twitter, walled garden, website, YouTube

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Jan 29 2009

Few architects Tweet, even fewer QSs

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
29 January 2009

Yesterday, in my short overview of the Web 2.0 practices of the main UK architecture, engineering and construction trade weeklies, I said that Architects’ Journal only appeared to have one Twitter user. Today, it seems almost the whole architecture profession has been somewhat slow to try out Twitter too. Over the past couple of weeks, …

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Jan 28 2009

Media and Web 2.0, Tweet and print

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Web 2.0
28 January 2009

In the media world, the overlap between conventional print publications and internet-based communications continues to grow. This doesn’t just mean that broadcasters or publications have a website; an increasing number are now adopting Web 2.0 tools and techniques – blogs, discussion forums, RSS feeds, Twitter, bookmarks, networks, etc – to find new levels of engagement …

@contractjournal, @melstarrs, @NCEmagazine, @zerochamp, AEC, AJ, Architects' Journal, blogs, bookmarks, Brian Green, Brickonomics, broadcasters, Building magazine, Construction News, Construction Space, Contract Journal, discussion forums, Emap, Facebook, LinkedIn, media, Mel Starrs, networks, New Civil Engineer, Phil Clark, publications, RSS feeds, Short and Tweet, trolls, Tweeters, Twitter, United Business Media, Web 2.0, website
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Jan 26 2009

Cape Verde trip: snippets

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Marketing, Web 2.0
26 January 2009

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 …

BIW, Cape Verde, digital SLR, Flip video, Hotel Riu Garopa, NCE, New Civil Engineer, Sal, Senegal, Soundclick.com, The Resort Group, Tortuga, tubejubilee, Twitter, YouTube
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Jan 23 2009

Collaborative Working Champions going online

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, Web 2.0
23 January 2009

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 …

Be2camp, Bit.ly, BIW, CIPR, collaborative working, Collaborative Working Champions, Constructing Excellence, Egan, ethics, Google, guidelines on social media, iGoogle, integration, Latham, Liz Male, Ning, Pam Broviak, PR, RSS, Twitter, Web 2.0

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Jan 20 2009

Building communities ‘aliveness’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, People issues, Web 2.0
20 January 2009

I said last week (Building online communities) that Martin Brown (Isite) and I will be facilitating the foundation of a new online community for AEC people focused on integrated collaborative working. Adding to the OReillynet.com guidance, Martin has emailed me an interesting 2002 article from Harvard Business School about cultivating communities of practice, written by …