http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/ Be2Awards news OpenACS 5.0 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:19:48 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/ 126 48 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=91598 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=91598 Social Media Week will again be held in London in September, this year 23-27 September inclusive, which means we may well be organising the Be2Awards and Be2Talks to take place during that week (following the successful 2012 event). We haven't booked our venue yet, or fixed a date (if you have somewhere that you'd like to offer, please let us know), but we would ideally organise the event to take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 25 or Thursday 26 September - so please pencil these dat... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:19:48 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=89388 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=89388 Neil Edwards of the Builders' Conference was a proud recipient of a 2012 Be2Award. The nomination said: "The construction trade association's desire to provide its members and the wider building sector with up-to-the-minute market data set it on the path of unprecedented technological development. The result is a live league table of UK contract awards that is updated in real-time and that is backed by a monthly magazine and commentary video by The Builders' Conference CEO Neil Edwards." Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:01:54 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=71227 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=71227 Cesar Abeid, who won a 2012 Be2Award for Best AEC social media blog for his Construction Industry Podcast has sent a photograph from Canada of himself with his award. Many congratulations again, Cesar.         Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:34:41 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=68786 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=68786 Some of the Nottingham-based staff of construction collaboration software vendor conject were clearly pleased with their Be2Award, voted best AEC collaboration solution in the Be2Awards last month. Conject was previously known in the UK as BIW Technologies but changed its name earlier this year following its December 2010 acquisition by the Munich-based Software-as-a-Service developer. Stephen Beaven, who accepted the award on behalf of conject has written a blog post in conject's blog abo... Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:27:55 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=65844 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=65844 Showing that social media is international, Mark Johnson, last week announced a Be2Awards winner, was presented with his awards in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA this week. Mark won the PR/marketing award and the best education and learning project award. Other awards are being distributed and we hope to show further photos of the winners with their awards soon.   Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:29:28 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=65576 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=65576 So it all culminated last week - the Be2 award nominations were sourced from you, our "crowd", and were voted upon by the same "crowd": you. This helped ensure we got a wide spread of nominations, and also encouraged shortlisted candidates to mobilise their supporters. The votes were counted and the winners were announced..... BE2 media award - winner: BuildersConferenceLive  Best AEC collaboration application  - winner: Conject P... Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:37:40 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=64519 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=64519 Tim Oldman will be talking at tomorrow's @Be2Talks event at the Building Centre in London WC1, looking at workplace productivity from the perspective of an expert in facilities management - Tim is a founder of Leesman Index, who provide measurement and audit techniques for "Evidence Based Design". Tim (@Leesman_Index) co-founded Leesman Index early in 2010 with Annie Leeson and Divyang Mistry. It provides a suite of data capture and audit tools specifically for workplace manage... Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:36:56 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=64070 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=64070 Nick Katz - ''Honest Buildings" Hear about Honest Buildings at the @Be2Talks event in London on Wednesday 26 September. Honest Buildings is a real estate network connecting professionals to new business opportunities and information for over 700,000 buildings across the US, and now with an office in London. As part of its platform, Honest Buildings streamlines the costly and time-consuming process of distributing requests for proposals and receiving bids with its proprietary matching engine ... Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:56:57 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=63796 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=63796 IT director Mark Stodgell will be straddling the divide between building information modelling (BIM) and social media, in his talk - provisionally entitled ''BIM, blogs, bikes and Pozzoni Architects" - at the @Be2Talks event in London on Wednesday 26 September. Mark Stodgell was an early adopter of building information modelling and of social media, having used Twitter (he's @Stodgeblog) and LinkedIn to raise the profile of his firm in the BIM world (where he is also a stalwart of the UK #BIM... Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:54:17 GMT http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=63309 http://be2camp.xarg.co.uk/be2awards/blog/one-entry?entry_id=63309 In her @Be2Talk on Wednesday 26 September, 'Why repair, maintenance and improvement is vital', Liz Male will talk about the rise of the RMI (repair, maintenance and improvement) sector – its new-found political, social, economic and environmental importance, and the opportunities and risks this creates for UK businesses in the built environment, including those linked to the imminent Green Deal initiative. Liz is Chairman of TrustMark, a not-for-profit organisation licensed by Governmen... Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:15:02 GMT