http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:03:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I’ve mentioned in previous posts my heart goes out to the multitude of fellow architects who have been hit by the current recession. This time last year I had held one of the 41,000 architectural jobs that were lost in the first three quarters of 2009. (I haven’t seen the ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/blogging-as-therapy.html In the few months since I launched this blog (dedicated to encouraging and equipping fellow architects to start their own professional blogs) I have seen several developments that are worth noting. If launching your own blog seems daunting, you may find solace in numbers. Here are three blog communities you ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/blogging-communities.html In my previous post, “Hope From Haiti”, I described some intriguing ways that popular technology was being used to help the post-earthquake rescue efforts. My suggestion was that readily available technologies, put to use for fundraising and information swapping in Haiti, could be similarly applied to the rescue of lost architectural jobs here.   I have already discovered an ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/hope-for-haiti.html I have recently written about the 41,000 architectural jobs lost in the first three quarters of 2009, as determined by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Having held one of those lost positions, this number really struck me – my personal story of architectural unemployment had been playing out in ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/hope-from-haiti.html Intending to sound light-heartedly optimistic, I’ve been using the phrase, “What happened in ’09, stays in ’09”. For me personally this includes a lay-off, half a year looking for a replacement position, and having to relocate out-of-state to secure work; all the while remarking, “I haven’t seen anything like this ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/one-last-goodbye-2009-by-the-numbers.html As a blogging resolution for the New Year, I state here publicly that Building Content will feature a new post weekly, offering relevant content to the architectural blogging community. I understand that inconsistency in timing or in quality is unacceptable in a professional blog. Building Content will not be marked ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/looking-ahead-to-the-new-year.html   One of the oft-repeated bits of advice shared on line, especially when it comes to blogging, is to be authentic. From a branding point of view, “To truly be yourself means to have no competition.” From a coaching standpoint; “They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/being-authentic-ill-go-first.html I trust my heroes at VSBA will not mind the architectural play-on-words this title offers. I think they’ll not; they are clever communicators. For others, please let me explain. [caption id="attachment_276" align="aligncenter" width="236" caption="Learning from Las Vegas - Cover Art"][/caption] Learning from Las Vegas is the title of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown’s seminal ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/learning-from-las-vegas-again.html Although the focus of this blog is to provide content and coaching to new and emerging architectural bloggers, I’d like to shift back from that niche for a moment and look at what good may come from successful blogging in general.   [caption id="attachment_258" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Image by Jerry Renolds"][/caption] As I had ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/learning-from-las-vegas-21-blogging-success-stories.html   From time to time I have the opportunity to contribute to the blog at UPworld, a unique online community for designers, builders and real estate professionals. As UPworld grew they chose to move to an invitation only model. Recently when tweeting a reference to a blog I’d posted there, a ... http://www.buildingcontent.highercontent.com/building-connections-upworld.html