Getting social - or - How the construction sector has adopted social media

Getting Social or “How the construction sector is adopting social media” Paul Wilkinson (pwcom.co.uk)

WEB 2.0 AEC 2.0 Q & A TODAY WHO, ME? CONTEXT TOUR GETTING SOCIAL?

Who am I?
Pre-web and Web 1.0
Web 2.0
What is Web 2.0 – a lightning tour
What’s changing? Why does Web 2.0 matter?
Web 2.0 – putting it all together
Getting social? = what this workshop is all about!

Who am I?
worked in construction industry since 1987
in-house: Halcrow, Tarmac, BIW
current/recent clients: 4Projects, BIW, Constructing Excellence, Earthshine, Slider Studio, tCn, Vertice, Woobius
author of book on construction collaboration technologies
Wikipedia (2003) , blog (2005), Twitter (2008)

Web 2.0 - Definitions:
the use of web technologies and web design to enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users.
“ People having conversations online”
“ globally distributed, near instant, person to person conversations”
(Sources: Wikipedia ; Kaizo; Euan Semple) WEB 2.0 AEC 2.0 Q & A TODAY WHO, ME? CONTEXT TOUR GETTING SOCIAL?

(Source: Role of Social Media in Commercial Property RICS 2009 – Remit Consulting) WEB 2.0 AEC 2.0 Q & A TODAY WHO, ME? CONTEXT TOUR GETTING SOCIAL?

Discussion forums

Wikis
open – Wikipedia
organisation – RIBApedia
Internal
Fielden Clegg Bradley

Podcasts
Blogs
Individual
Corporate
Media

Blogs
“… conversations online”

Twitter
Personal
Corporate
Media
Lists, eg:
trade bodies
media
Architects
Twibes
Leagues

RSS
RSS publishing, from:
Bloggers
Media
Corporate
Search
Feed-readers
local or web-based: Google Reader, etc

Social networking
from personal (eg: Facebook ) …
to professional (less Facebook, more LinkedIn ) …
to AEC focused (some in Facebook, LinkedIn, or built on Ning , Elgg, socialGo)

1581 members 5110 members WEB 2.0 AEC 2.0 Q & A TODAY WHO, ME? CONTEXT TOUR GETTING SOCIAL?

www.tcn.uk.com www.reorb.com 2854 members 3982 sign-ups WEB 2.0 AEC 2.0 Q & A TODAY WHO, ME? CONTEXT TOUR GETTING SOCIAL?

Tagging/sharing, eg

Sharing:
Presentations
Travel
Reviews
Photos
Video
Q&As
etc

Location

Location:
Real world (wiki)
Augmented reality
Virtual world

Changing PR
Digital news release issued as a webpage, linked via RSS or a URL
URL disseminated by email, Twitter, SMS, IM
easily monitored – eg: unique visitors, time on page, downloads
bespoke pages for different journalists – with different URLs for distribution
Easily bookmarked
Associated multimedia

Changing events
Hybrid = online + face-2-face
Real-time sharing
Real-time feedback
Multiple locations

Changing events
Virtual events
virtual stands
no travel
interact online

Changing AEC services, new opportunities
Examples:

Changing AEC services, new opportunities
More examples:

… so what’s changed? Changing habits ! WEB 2.0 AEC 2.0 Q & A TODAY WHO, ME? CONTEXT TOUR GETTING SOCIAL?

Why does Web 2.0 matter?
70% UK homes now have broadband internet access
Will top 80% within three years

biggest driver of UK mobile internet adoption is social media
70% of daily mobile internet users use social media
31% of UK people access internet via mobile phone (ie: more than via laptop - 26%)

30m+ UK people profiled on Facebook
ie: 2m in c. 5mths
Over 2 out of 3 UK internet users have active Facebook accounts
WEB 2.0 AEC 2.0 Q & A TODAY WHO, ME? CONTEXT TOUR GETTING SOCIAL? UK users Oct 2010 – Mar 2011

In December 2010, LinkedIn passed five million UK members
One million members added in six months
Over one third of UK professionals profiled on LinkedIn
25% of FTSE100 companies hire via LinkedIn
100 million LinkedIn users worldwide
5% of LinkedIn users account for 49% of UK LinkedIn activity

UK = third most active Twitter population
c. 4m UK users by January 2010
7% of Tweeters account for 79% of UK Twitter traffic

In February 2010, 5.5 billion online videos watched in UK
2.5bn of those visits made to YouTube (up 17% on 2009)
Facebook now 4 th most important for video (up 205%)

New construction marketing…. A Web 2.0 revolution! WEB 2.0 AEC 2.0 Q & A TODAY WHO, ME? CONTEXT TOUR GETTING SOCIAL?

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Q&A Thank you Contact: Paul Wilkinson Website: www.pwcom.co.uk PR blog: www.pwcom.wordpress.com Email: [email_address] Tel: +44 (0)20 8858 1104 mob: 07788 445920 Twitter: @EEPaul http://www.google.com/profiles/paul.wilkinson19

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