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Social Tools

Tarmac – Being there isn’t being Social

4 November 2010
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Daniel Maddocks recently posted an article about how Tarmac is using social media in construction, and their presence online is certainly impressive. Unlike most construction companies they have RSS feed buttons on their websites, a blog, twitter account, facebook fanpage and YouTube channel. Admirable. Daniel is currently studying Construction Project Management at the University of [...]

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Paper.li makes twitter stickier

9 September 2010

About a fortnight or so ago I got featured in the first paper.li daily news thanks to @stevenhealey who often finds things first. When I saw it I was absolutely fascinated, because it met a need I had identified – people don’t want to miss stuff on twitter, particularly good links. It is really interesting [...]

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Watch a new social tool take root – Woobius Eye

24 May 2010
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I first found out about Woobius, a startup company set up by architects and techies, at a be2camp event that, appropriately, I was attending via the internet. Now Woobius’ little multiplatform real-time-visual-chat application Woobius Eye has won the MEX 2010 award, just another step on a road to inevitable stardom. So What’s a MEX Award? [...]

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Social Media in Construction – some great presentations

4 February 2010

More and more construction professionals are starting to investigate using Social Media tools for marketing and collaboration, and this was reflected in yesterdays Emap Construction Marketing Training day where we saw great presentations on blogging, linkedin and facebook (and a reasonable one on twitter) plus really thought provoking discussions on twitter and in the room. [...]

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