Tag Archives: Be2camp

Kickstart an Air Quality Egg

I’ve been looking for excuses to talk about Pachube (founder Usman Haque has contributed to past Be2camp events I’ve been involved with), the Internet of Things and about crowd-sourced funding of innovations, so an email from Pachube announcing the launch of its … Continue reading

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OpenBuildings – marketing architecture

[This is an edited version of a blog post originally published on my tech blog ExtranetEvolution.com.] Last month, I wrote about OpenBuilding.com, the crowd-sourced building directory, and I met up with the business’s founders, COO Tom Mallory (left) and CEO Adel Zakout … Continue reading

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We are all broadcasters now

I helped organise and spoke at Be2camp Heritage in London last Thursday, 2 June. The half-day event, held fittingly at The Georgian Group in Fitzroy Square, was developed in conjunction with James Mott of Projectbook who has worked hard to … Continue reading

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Entrepreneurs and social media

Last week I spoke at an evening meeting of the Cass Entrepreneurs Network (an alumni group of Cass Business school at London’s City University) on entrepreneurs, PR and social media. The event, hosted at the CIPR’s headquarters in Russell Square, attracted … Continue reading

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Looking back on Be2Awards 2011

Amid five days of frantic social media activity across London during Social Media Week, the combined Be2Awards and @ConstrucTALKs event on Wednesday 9 February was always going to be my highlight (I was the event organiser after all!). Despite some … Continue reading

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Announcing the Be2Awards 2011

In the middle of 2008, four people started a Twitter conversation about how people in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sectors might be able to use social media tools and techniques to plan, design, construct, operate and maintain a … Continue reading

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pwcom blog: 2010 in review

Happy New Year. It’s that time of year when people look back at the old year and/or forward to the New Year, and WordPress helps bloggers with the process by presenting some handy statistics which have helped me kickstart my … Continue reading

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And the ‘Sustainability Now’ Best Social Media individual is … er me!

Well, that was a nice surprise! This afternoon I learned that I had won Best Social Media Individual in the Sustainability Now social media awards, and that Be2camp, which I co-founded, had won Best Social Media Community. First run in … Continue reading

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Community engagement: it’s a people thing

Last Thursday, I talked at the final 2010 CIPR Social Media Summer event held at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. My presentation (below) was about community management or, more accurately, community engagement; I suggested that the success of a … Continue reading

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Social media lessons from the World Water Day ‘hybrid event’

Today is Blog Action Day: “an annual event … that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action”. Last year I blogged … Continue reading

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