Last Wednesday at GreenBuild Expo, Be2camp ran a social media workshop and launched two new initiatives.

First, we announced the dates (again!) for the 2012 BE2Awards. The event will be in London on 26 September, during Social Media Week, but there is lots of activity, including nominations for new categories, suggesting candidates for awards, shortlisting and voting throughout the late summer. And we want sponsors!

Secondly, we have launched the first draft of the BE2 Social Media Guide to the Green Deal (some of you may remember we held a Green Deal event in London last November). This has been created as…

There will be plenty of chances to get to grips with social media at Greenbuild Expo and learn how it can help achieve a sustainable built environment, thanks to be2camp.

Be2camp is a social media advocacy group set up in 2008 to progress the use of web technology in built environment sustainability and is now seen as a touchstone for built environment social media. The group will once again be hosting events as part of Greenbuild Expo in Manchester.

Kicking everything off the day before Greenbuild Expo, on 8th May, there will be a be2camp-led TweetChat at 6pm on the 8th May – a great opportunity to discuss and brainstorm all things green over Twitter in an inspirational 60-minute global session. We will be using the hashtag #GBExpoChat.

Registration for Green Build Expo is free - sign up here

Wednesday 9th May…

Attendees at a couple of past Be2camp events may recall Usman Haque of Pachube talking about feeding environmental sensor data to the web. Amid talk of the "Internet of Things", Pachube is now backing an initiative to publish crowd-sourced air quality data online using an "Air Quality Egg".

In the spirit of social media, the project is inviting backers through a community fund-raising campaign run on Kickstarter (you can read my blog about it: Kickstart an Air Quality Egg). I’ve pledged $100, tweeted, and…

Yesterday our Architectmap project, which has turned into a hugely successful website and iphone app (not to mention a growing Facebook community) was featured in the Independent Property Blog. 

Read all about it here, and if you like the idea you can join via the website or iphone app. Look forward to meeting you there.