Since the emergence of the worldwide web as a communications medium in the mid-1990s, individuals and organisations have been able to use websites to showcase their products, projects or services portfolios. Almost inevitably, many early websites were little more than electronic brochures, with limited interactivity and few graphics – and those images tended to be …
Tag: Android
Nov 09 2010
MyTaptu – news at your fingertips on your smartphone
I don’t normally do technology reviews on this website (though I do on my ExtranetEvolution blog, if you’re into construction collaboration technology), but as I have recently discovered something that allows easy sharing of the latest news (always useful for PR and media people), I thought I would make an exception. Since getting a smartphone, I …
Jun 14 2010
QR codes
At the end of a busy day in and around London last Thursday, I dashed off to the Russell Square, London headquarters of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations for the latest in a series of CIPR Social Summer camps. About two dozen people met to talk about public relations and mobile devices, stimulated by …
Apr 28 2010
Construction Enquirer misses Twitter trick
A new UK-based Construction Enquirer e-newsletter service started today. Following last November’s demise of Contract Journal (see Goodbye, CJ), this new venture is managed by two former print journalists, Aaron Morby and Grant Prior, and in a construction market where the two surviving mainstream titles, Construction News and Building magazine, have both imposed paywalls, it provides …