Talking about Web 2.0 tools and techniques to fellow Constructing Excellence Collaborative Working Champions in Birmingham last month, one friend told the meeting that his employer limited employee access to the web quite tightly, this restricting his and his colleagues’ ability to try such tools. Another said his organisation blocked access to various networking sites, …
Category: Web 2.0
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Nov 27 2008
Construction, ICT, marketing and web 2.0
“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 …
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Nov 14 2008
EE in Dubai – yesterday
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 – …
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Nov 11 2008
EE in Dubai – first reflections
I have been in Dubai 48 hours now and have really enjoyed learning about working here. It’s a steep learning curve, though, as the sheer number and scale of the construction programmes currently under way is way beyond anything I’ve ever seen. Dubai has numerous developments that, on their own, are each already way bigger …
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Nov 07 2008
Show Us A Better Way – finalists
I have blogged before about the Power of Information Task Force (a UK Cabinet Office initiative) and its Show Us A Better Way competition, which attracted 100s of entries. Well, The winners shortlist has been announced in the Guardian (see also the Free Our Data blog), and the ultimate winner will be announced on BBC …
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Oct 29 2008
Building webinar experience
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’
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 20 2008
CJ Twitters
No doubt inspired by their attendance at Be2camp 10 days ago (OK, I can be optimistic!), the good folk at UK construction trade mag Contract Journal are now on Twitter. Moreover, @contractjournal – laudibly – has so far resisted the temptation to simply splurge out a write-only feed of hourly, sporadically updated news links (like …
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