Tag: pwcom

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 02 2010

tCn – The Construction Network – launches

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Web 2.0
2 March 2010

[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 2 March 2010. A debate has been kindled in the comments section that is reminiscent of conversations around the time of the dot.com boom in 2000.] Late last year I was contacted by Ryan Briggs, one of the co-founders of a new social …

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Nov 30 2009

An open letter to the new Chief Construction Adviser

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
30 November 2009

[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 27 November 2009. Update (04 December): I added a post-script to the original post – read the response received back from Paul Morrell.] First mooted in July 2008, the appointment of the UK government’s first Chief Construction Advisor was finally announced this week. …

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Jun 05 2009

Gloomy times for SaaS collaboration vendors

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, People issues, Web 2.0
5 June 2009

Today I have been hearing about redundancies among staff at one of the UK’s leading construction collaboration vendors. This news comes as no surprise. The writing has been on the wall for all the collaboration vendors since the credit crunch hit last year. Widespread project postponements and cancellations have led to corresponding reductions across the …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Asite, Autodesk, BIW, blog, cancellations, collaboration, Construction, credit crunch, marketing, PR, project postponements, pwcom, redundancies, Social Media, StoreData, UK
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Mar 06 2009

A new blog, a new direction

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
6 March 2009

Sharp-eyed visitors to this blog may have noticed a new RSS feed in the side-bar – from pwcom. This is my new blog focused on PR, marketing and Web 2.0, with a strong bias towards how these are used in the architecture, engineering, construction and property sectors. I have discussed Web 2.0 a lot in …