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tCn at the What House? Awards

Posted on 22 November 2010 by The tCn Team

Anyone attending the What House? Awards lunch at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Park Lane last Friday will hopefully have noticed tCn – the Construction Network. Let’s face it: as one of the event’s sponsors, tCn was difficult to … Continue reading →

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What are the best news sites, blogs or feeds in construction?

Posted on 25 October 2010 by The tCn Team

We want to know how you keep up-to-date with the latest industry news. What would you recommend to other tCn members as good, industry-specific websites, blogs or feeds? Or maybe you or your organisation offer a great source of news, opinion … Continue reading →

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Just how social is your construction company?

Posted on 22 October 2010 by tCnFounder

Another great blog post from the Pauley Creative team this week asks construction-related organisations to reflect on why various departments might want or need social media. At tCn we are focusing more and more on two main aims: To offer individuals a … Continue reading →

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Skype interviews, podcasts, Twitter newspapers … whatever next?

Posted on 8 October 2010 by tCnFounder

With new ways of communicating emerging almost daily, I suppose I shouldn’t have been too suprised at what I found myself doing this week. On Monday, for example, I did a Skype call to Mark Anthony of Demolition News who interviewed … Continue reading →

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Inviting the industry to join tCn

Posted on 1 October 2010 by The tCn Team

We are pleased to say that invitation codes are now being issued to various construction industry organisations so that they can, in turn, email them to members, employees and students. With a watchful eye on quality and efficiency, invitation codes … Continue reading →

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Some new tCn bells and whistles

Posted on 21 September 2010 by The tCn Team

We’ve been busy with development and bug-fixing since the new-look website for tCn – the Construction Network – first went live in mid August, and the numbers joining the network have started to climb again after the summer break. Any … Continue reading →

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tCn 2.0 is ‘live’

Posted on 13 August 2010 by The tCn Team

The second iteration of tCn‘s website has been live for a few days now, having been quietly launched so that friends from partner organisations could help us to do some testing and to identify any outstanding bugs (some still remain, … Continue reading →

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Planning tCn 2.0

Posted on 7 June 2010 by tCnFounder

We launched tCn – the Construction Network – at Ecobuild three months ago, and we now have almost 1200 registered members, with many more waiting in the wings. We are pleased at the support shown to us by so many … Continue reading →

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Not ‘social’, we mean ‘business’

Posted on 22 April 2010 by tCnFounder

In his latest blog post, Overcoming fear of the social media unknown, Paul Wilkinson quotes research about organisations’ use of social media for marketing purposes which found that: 68% of respondents organisations are using social media in their marketing mainly through … Continue reading →

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Being reactive

Posted on 16 April 2010 by The tCn Team

Social media or Web 2.0 is, as our consultant Paul Wilkinson keeps reminding us, about people having conversations online. This is something that we are trying to encourage on the tCn website, of course, but we also have to engage … Continue reading →

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