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The Web is no longer a passive place where people idly surf, read, listen, or watch without engaging. Today, the Web is also a business tool that allows us to network together, participate in dialogue, and collaborate. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are just a few of the networks people are using regularly to interact socially and professionally.

Although the construction industry, in general, has been slow to take advantage of many digital innovations, several peer-to-peer messaging and meeting platforms are growing in popularity and use by the next generation of construction professionals. Examples include: GroupMe, WeTxt, GoToMeeting, and Zoom. These collaboration and communication platforms allow team members to easily reply to hundreds of contacts at once, or organize team communications into groups to quickly send project updates and jobsite broadcasts. The challenge of scheduling meetings has been mostly eliminated by using any number of online meeting services to connect and discuss projects while sharing files and images right on our computer screens. And these examples don't even represent those designed specifically for construction. I'll discuss those in more detail in Chapter 15.