Why web 2.0 matters to construction in today's property and construction industries

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Why Web 2.0 matters in today’s property and

construction industries

Paul Wilkinson(pwcom.co.uk)

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Why does Web 2.0 matter?

• 70% UK homesnow haveinternet access

• 63% havebroadband

• Broadband forall by 2012?

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• biggest driver of UK mobile internet adoption is social media

• 70% of daily mobile internet users use social media

• Over 16m UK peopleaccessed internet viamobile phone inDecember 2009.(excluding T-Mobile and 3)

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• 25 million UK activeFacebook accounts

• 50% of activeusers loginto FBevery day

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• In February 2009, one in 35 UKinternet visits was to a specialist video website, up from one in 50 in February 2008.

• YouTube had 62.9%of those visits.

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• the UK is the 2nd biggest Twitter nation (after the USA)

• in August 2009, there were over 2.4million UK Twitter users

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• On 25 November 2009, LinkedIn gained its 3 millionth UK member

• This was just twoyears after it reachedone million

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Web 1.0 was about … Web 2.0 is about …

reading writing

(Photos: Meir Sadan on Flickr; kpwerker on Flickr

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companies communities

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one-way two-way

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lecture conversation

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advertising word-of-mouth

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owning sharing

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… so what’s changed?

RethinkMarketing!

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Traditional B2B marketing was

Marketing 2.0 is becoming …

tactical more strategic

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often mainly promotion

4 (or 5) P’s

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what the

marketing dept did

any/all parts ofthe organisation

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short-term long-term

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static mobile

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Paul Wilkinson

(pwcom.co.uk)

“The only thing worse than being talked about is not

being talked about.”

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