After my November 2012 blog post about SpecifiedBy, I did a follow-up interview with Darren Lester for my ExtranetEvolution tech blog in February, and have since had a closer look at the site following its Beta launch at Ecobuild in London earlier this month. It is, of course, still very early days, but the Beta …
Tag Archive: Ecobuild
Mar 02 2010
tCn – The Construction Network launches
Late last year I was contacted by Ryan Briggs, one of the co-founders of a new social network aimed at the construction industry. The Construction Network, or tCn, aims to become the sector’s most exclusive business networking platform and has some big name partners, most notably the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Other construction associations …
Mar 09 2009
Climate change and social media competitions
Last week at Ecobuild, at the end of his BIM and social media presentation (see EE post), Birmingham-based architect Rob Annable wondered if it might be possible to use energy usage monitoring tools such as Pachube in combination with social media as a way of creating energy efficiency competitions between building occupiers. According to Earth2Tech …
Mar 09 2009
Why Generation Y matters
Over the weekend I read a cutting, Generation Next, from the March 2009 issue of Director magazine, discussing how the cohort of people born in or after 1980 are prompting changes in organisational approaches. Writer David Woodward quotes an April 2008 study by Talentsmoothie of 2,500 Gen Y people which found that they: “had little …
Mar 06 2009
Meet then Tweet
Drawing on Wednesday’s post-EcoBuild “Tweet-up”, I wrote yesterday about how Twitter could be used to ‘Tweet and meet‘: to organise social gatherings at which you could network with existing friends and with new people who could potentially be added to your followers. It’s worth adding that the process also works the other way round. You …
