The continued success of Leeds Metropolitan University's ThinkBIM events (organised by the Centre for Knowledge Exchange and facilitated by the BE2 team) saw last week's event reach out across the UK and around the world via social media. A quick look at the Twitter stats for the #tbim2013 hashtag (via Tweetreach) suggests the most recent 50 tweets (of an estimated 277) reached 36,114 accounts, with over 90,000 potential impressions.

The half-day conference had some top speakers - notably Government BIM Task Group chairman Mark Bew and BuildingSmart UK's Nick Tune (both of whom also managed workshops) - and a US contribution from Nathan Wood of DPR Construction in California. As usual we managed to curate…

GreenVision's latest event, supported by the BE2 team and hosted by WSP Group in Leeds, drilled into the detail of funding models for Low Carbon Retrofit, Business Drivers for Green Commercial Buildings, Community Energy Solutions and the real Green Deal, moving the discussion from existing legislation and targets to where we need to be heading in order to reap the benefits of delivering change.

We were joined by Jon Alker, Head of Policy and Communications at UKGBC and David Symons, Head of Environment and Energy, WSP, who shared their interpretations of the current situation in the sector. If you missed the event, you can still review much of what was discussed:

• Martin Brown has collated tweets and presentations…

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 dates in your calendars.

The SMW theme for 2013: is…

I am a long-time Wikipedian, and as a construction PR professional and occasional public speaker on B2B use of social media in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector, I will talk to businesses about using Wikipedia to share information. However, I am often confronted by individuals’ and companies’ frustration that they haven’t been able to get their content accepted by other Wikipedia editors. However, particularly for subjects which may be too industry-specific or UK-centric for Wikipedia, there is an alternative.

Last November, I wrote about DesigningBuildings , a UK-based open wiki established…