Plannovation

Yesterday, @Ryan_Link tweeted: #AEC industry is 2-3 years behind other fields in the use of #socialmedia. Referenced from statement made at last SMPS National Conference. I don’t understand why the AEC industry is behind others in adopting social media tools. Some of the smartest folks I know work in this industry. The very people who [...]

You might want to export tweets from Twitter to Excel if: you wanted to include tweets as part of your administrative record for a project or if you wanted to track what folks were saying in general about a roadway or an area on Twitter (i.e. Twitter search for I-35, an interstate in Texas). Quick [...]

Acronyms: NEPA = National Environmental Policy Act while NAEP = National Association of Environmental Professionals This week, I’m at the NAEP conference in Atlanta, volunteering to teach environmental professionals about using Twitter. Unlike the APA conference where there was chatter on Twitter before the conference, Twitter was completely silent before the NAEP conference. So we’re going to [...]

Anthony and I had a great time at the National American Planning Association conference talking to planners about why more and more planning projects are using Twitter as a public involvement tool. Twitter use at the APA conference was phenomenal with over 1,000 tweets using the conference hashtag #apa2010! A big thank you to the [...]

I used a tool called Archivest to export the majority of the tweets with the hashtag #APA2010. If I have time, I’d love to do some data mining on the tweets in the future. For example, what sessions got the most positive feedback? I’d want to attend sessions by speakers with positive feedback at next [...]