Category: Blogs

Feb 03 2009

Building Sustainable Design

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 …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/02/building-sustainable-design/

Feb 02 2009

Tackling ‘the interweb thingy’

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 …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/02/tackling-the-interweb-thingy/

Jan 28 2009

Media and Web 2.0, Tweet and print

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 …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/media-and-web-20-tweet-and-print/

Jan 26 2009

Cape Verde trip: snippets

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 …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/cape-verde-trip-snippets/

Jan 23 2009

Collaborative Working Champions going online

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 …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/collaborative-working-champions-going-online/

Jan 20 2009

“Sell Buzzsaw”

OK, it’s only an individual’s opinion in the Autodesk User Group International Forums. Reflecting on a forum post about Autodesk’s recent stock market performance (linked to a CGenie blog article), one stockholder (alias: aaronrumple) suggests a six-point strategy, the final item being: 6. Adsk has a good portfolio of stuff to sell. They should work …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/sell-buzzsaw/

Jan 20 2009

Yammer, Present.ly

Last week I wondered whether the construction industry suffered from ‘collaboraphobia’, affecting its ability to adopt tools and techniques that improve communication and information-sharing. There are a small (but hopefully growing) number of construction people writing blogs, using Twitter, and building online communities, but given the size of the industry, it is clear that we …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/yammer-presently/

Jan 14 2009

Building online communities

My friend (and fellow Be2camp member) Jim McHale of Memoori has just blogged some Oreillynet.com guidance from 2002 about building online communities: Exist for a reason – a community has to promote a collective goal. Users draw other users – Your most active users will draw more users than you ever will. Referrals might bring …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/building-online-communities/

Jan 12 2009

First footings

Like London buses, new construction blogs seem to come in pairs. Hours after welcoming Su Butcher’s new blog, I saw a tweet (thank, Mel) about Liz Male‘s new blog, Footings, begun last month. As a fellow construction PR person, I have known Liz, on and off, for about 15 years. She was also good enough …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/first-footings/

Jan 12 2009

Just Practising

Initially through Be2camp, but then Twitter, LinkedIn and the recently-launched AEC Network on Ning, I have become friends with Su Butcher, practice manager of East Anglia architect Barefoot and Gilles, who has just started a new blog, Just Practising (my very modest claim to fame is that the blog title is one of several I …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/01/just-practising/

Load more