The world's first awards for social media in the built environment
The Be2awards - London, June 2012
Since June 2008, the social media advocacy community, Be2camp, has been helping the architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and related industries think about and deploy Web 2.0 tools and techniques. The world's first awards for social media in the built environment, the 2011 Be2Awards were presented in London in February 2011.
From the 'unconference' folk, the 'unawards'...
The Be2Awards are about sharing information and helping construction people connect online, so we:
- 'crowdsource' the award nominations (and maybe even an award category or two!)
- encourage online voting across the award categories, so that winners can say their award reflects the 'wisdom of the crowd' (or at least "their crowd")
- host some of construction and technology's most thoughtful speakers at a TEDx-style event - Be2TALKs - throughout the Be2Awards presentations
- demonstrate our Web 2.0 enthusiasm (and get a worldwide audience) by live-streaming the event to the web via video, live-blogging and Twitter
- deliver some surprises along the way - the 2011 cake was good! - and
- didn't insist on black-ties and cocktail dresses
The 2011 Be2Awards - Winners
- Built environment blogger of the Year - Joe Peach for "This Big City"
- Best sustainability blog - Joe Peach for "This Big City"
- Best AEC social media blog - Su Butcher for "Just Practising"
- Best use of Twitter - Paul Wilkinson (@EEPaul)
- Best AEC collaboration platform - BIW Technologies
- Best AEC community, network or community application - tCn - The Construction Network
- Best use of Web 2.0 for construction products - Reed Harris Tiles
- Best location-based AEC application - NearMap
- Best 'internet of things' application - Tales of Thingss
- Best mobile application - Woobius Eye
- Best virtual or hybrid event - Sustainability Now
- 'Old media/new media' award - TCI - The Construction Index
- Best AEC PR/marketing campaign - SMPR for Camfil Farr campaign
- Best education and learning award - Virtual Maths
- Best charity, third sector use of social media - EACH Treehouse Appeal
- Best AEC use of photo / video - Andy Marshall (@fotofacade)
Don't miss out!
Subscribe to the Be2camp news blog, and make sure you're following @Be2Awards or @Be2camp on Twitter. Details of nominations, sponsors, speakers, shortlists and awards announcements will continue up to, throughout June 2012 and beyond....
Be2Awards News
Empowering Change through Collaboration
09-12-2011 21:06
The organisers of Social Media Week (a series of events taking place simultaneously in 13 different cities around the world), have agreed a theme for 2012: Empowering Change through Collaboration Acclaimed co-author of Wikinomics, and one of the world's leading business thinkers, Don Tapscott has written three thought-provoking articles: Empowering Change through Collaboration, Collaborating for Change in Healthcare and A New Energy Revolution. We hope his perspective o...
Be2Awards 2012 - date fixed
24-11-2011 20:56
A date for the 2012 Be2Awards and @ConstrucTALKs has been fixed. The combined event will again take place at London's Building Centre on the Thursday afternoon of Social Media Week: 16 February 2012. Nominations for the Be2Awards will open in December (with shortlisted candidates put to the public vote from late January 2012). We will also invite suggestions for speakers at @ConstrucTALKs. If you have any suggestions for suitable speakers able to deliver a TEDx-style talk, please email Mart...
Some more post-Be2Awards blog posts
15-02-2011 13:41
In addition to the dozen blog posts highlighted yesterday, Here are a few more reactions to last week's Be2Awards / @ConstrucTALKs event: Demolition News, from Mark Anthony The tCn blog, from Ryan Briggs Extranet Evolution and the pwcom blog, both from Paul Wilkinson The latter post also features various photographs from last Wednesday's event, including several provided by Graeme Hutchison of HutchisonHaines.co.uk. And as we are talking about blogs, why not show a photo of Joe Peach (...
A dozen post-Be2Awards blog posts
14-02-2011 15:55
It's been great to read some of the post-event reaction to last week's Be2Awards / ConstrucTALKs event on various blogs, including.... Just Practising, from Su Butcher This Big City, from Joe Peach Fotofacade, from Andy Marshall The Playrite blog, from Lorna Duncanson The Reed Harris Tiles blog, from Karen B The SMPR blog, from Katie Brown / Kirstie Colledge Urban Tick blog, from Fabian Neuhaus NearMap blog, from Simon Crowther The Hutchison Haines blog, from Graeme Hutchison ...
The Be2Awards /ConstrucTALKs day in numbers....
11-02-2011 15:17
The real life event attracted over 70 people It lasted 240 minutes, started only 10 minutes late (a record for Be2camp!) and actually finished on time There were six ConstrucTALKs speakers (a seventh sadly had to withdraw at 8pm the night before) There were almost 900 visits to the Be2Awards website on the day the Awards were presented. Online, the Ustream.tv live video stream was viewed by 178 unique visitors, who made 302 visits, totalling 146 hours. On Twitter, the hashtag #be2awards...
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Be2Awards on Twitter
@KatieBrowntweet of top of head- supporting #GVis and #TBIM Leeds March/April, Oxford late April, #be2awards June cc @EEPaul
24-01-2012 11:04
@KatieBrowntweet of top of head- supporting #GVis and #TBIM Leeds March/April, Oxford late April, #be2awards June cc @EEPaul
RT @katiebrowntweet: RT @SuButcher: Checking out "Be2Awards postponed to June 2012" on Be2Camp: t.co/i0KUttTa
19-01-2012 12:30
RT @katiebrowntweet: RT @SuButcher: Checking out "Be2Awards postponed to June 2012" on Be2Camp: t.co/i0KUttTa
RT @subutcher: Checking out "Be2Awards postponed to June 2012" on Be2Camp: t.co/707vtJpz
19-01-2012 12:27
RT @subutcher: Checking out "Be2Awards postponed to June 2012" on Be2Camp: t.co/707vtJpz
Checking out "Be2Awards postponed to June 2012" on Be2Camp: t.co/Hfw1cXX5
19-01-2012 12:21
Checking out "Be2Awards postponed to June 2012" on Be2Camp: t.co/Hfw1cXX5
@JASiteServices why thanks very much! I've already got one of these: t.co/Onh6ZgKk
17-01-2012 21:08
@JASiteServices why thanks very much! I've already got one of these: t.co/Onh6ZgKk