On Wednesday afternoon, I spoke at the latest half-day conference organised by Ross Sturley and his energetic team from the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG). The event, at the Building Centre in London, was focused on digital communications for construction marketing, and I had the final presentation, looking into the future. Filling such a …
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Jan 25 2011
Did the Be2Awards bypass most AEC PR and marketing people?
About two weeks ago (see Announcing the Be2Awards 2011), I launched the website for what we believe are the world’s first social media awards for “The built environment” (ie: architecture, engineering, construction, facilities management, property, etc). Nominations began to trickle in, and as Friday’s deadline approached there was a final flood, and I have just …
Sep 27 2010
Tweeter twacked by Twansit!
The inaugural communicators bike ride or Comms Club Run (see previous post) took place on Friday on the wettest day (so far) in September 2010. With other riders put off by the gloomy weather forecast, Liam Fitzpatrick and I stuck to Plan A, met up at Watford Junction station at 10am, pointed our road bikes …
Dec 15 2009
Social Media and Construction Marketing
I am doing the opening talk at a social media and construction marketing pre-conference training day in London on 3 February 2010, organised by Emap Networks, the events arm of the publisher of Construction News, Architects’ Journal and other publications, and run in collaboration with CIMCIG. The event will re-unite me with former Emap marketing …
Apr 20 2009
Confessions of a corporate tweeter
The econsultancy blog has a great guest post, Confessions of a corporate tweeter, from Guy Stephens, Knowledge and Online Help Manager at Carphone Warehouse, and one of that company’s corporate tweeters. If you liked my Should every business Twitter? or Why I didn’t follow you on Twitter posts, this echoes many of my suggestions but …
Apr 02 2009
Talking PR, Web 2.0 and construction in Liverpool
I will be talking about PR, marketing, web 2.0 and how these can be combined to help construction industry organisations better weather the recession at Be2camp North at FACT in Liverpool on 15 May 2009. No surprise in me doing this, of course – I was one of the co-founders of Be2camp last year – …
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