Online AEC Communities - finding construction people on Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning, etc

Online communities in the AEC industry by Paul Wilkinson (pwcom.co.uk)

From learned societies to business breakfasts
Intranets and internal wikis (eg: Arup CoPs)
Drivers (technology, economy, mobility)
Now moving into Web 2.0
eg: RIBA NING SITES WEB 2.0 FACEBOOK TWITTER INTRO LINKEDIN

Face-to-face
Written word
Hand drawings
Telephone
Telegram
Telex
Fax
CAD
Email
Groupware (eg: Lotus Notes)
File transfer protocol (FTP)
Websites
Intranets, enterprise portals
Video- and tele-conferencing
Extranets
Web-conferencing applications
File-sharing (P2P)
Instant messaging
Discussion forums
Home pages (iGoogle)
Wikis
Blogs, micro-blogs
RSS
Social networking
Social search, tagging, sharing
Mashups: Mapping, time-lines, etc
Virtual worlds
Cloud computing mobile eg: RIBA NING SITES WEB 2.0 FACEBOOK TWITTER INTRO LINKEDIN Web 2.0 BIM SaaS

(Sources: Joe Drumgoole’s Copacetic ; Darrenbarefoot.com 2006 ) eg: RIBA NING SITES WEB 2.0 FACEBOOK TWITTER INTRO LINKEDIN Web 1.0 was about … Web 2.0 is about … reading writing companies communities one-way two-way lecture conversation advertising word-of-mouth owning sharing

RIBA Knowledge Communities
beta project initially
relaunched within RIBA earlier this year
hosted on Elgg
918 site members (at 8 October 2009)

RIBApedia
Research and education site
create profiles, share links, blogs, etc
built on MediaWiki

Twitter
loads of people, companies, etc
@UKConstruction
TwitterLeagues
Twibes

Facebook
lots of people, pages, groups groups
Difficult to find effective use of Facebook
“ Under Construction”
Page status
Rock band name

Architect HOK
HOK careers
Part of integrated HOK web 2.0 effort
Blog
LinkedIn
Twitter
Delicious
YouTube, etc
eg: RIBA NING SITES WEB 2.0 TWITTER INTRO LINKEDIN FACEBOOK

LinkedIn
lots of AEC groups
85 “AEC”
1,350 “architecture”
2,135 “construction”
easy to join groups
some still very recruitment-focused

Be2camp launched 31 July 2008
Built on Ning
310 members (as at 6 October 2009)
Targeting a niche interest
Events key to growth

Be2camp 10 Oct Be2camp North 15 May Be2camp Brum 12 Aug Be2camp WB 7-8 Oct eg: RIBA WEB 2.0 FACEBOOK TWITTER INTRO LINKEDIN NING SITES

CE Collaborative Working Champions
Founded Jan 2009
Initially private
Public from August
Cause-focused
67 members
Forum used to create guidance
eg: RIBA FACEBOOK TWITTER INTRO LINKEDIN NING SITES WEB 2.0

CE G4C
Founded July 2009
Initially private
Public from Sept
Cause-focused
48 members
Autumn membership drive to start shortly

AEC Network
342 members (as at 8 October 2009)
Also built on Ning
using networking events to grow

Property Week launched network
‘ Soft launch’ 25 September
Grew from 57 members to 82 in 11 days – strong brand helps
Good Ning customisation
endorsement of Ning? or inexpensive PWk experiment?

Thank you Contact: Paul Wilkinson Blog: www.extranetevolution.com Email: [email_address] Tel: +44 (0)20 8858 1104 mob: 07788 445920 Twitter: @EEPaul

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