To achieve wider impact and to ensure the replication of the project results, a proactive dissemination plan was implemented, including brochures, newsletters, thematic workshops and participation in international energy efficiency conferences. Besides those more traditional activities, SAVE ENERGY implemented a large, but loosely-coupled, set of applications based on Web 2.0 best practices.

The SAVE ENERGY Internet presence aggregates tools, services and communities to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among all stakeholders. The information and the interaction may occur in both the public and the private sphere. The SAVE ENERGY tools include several applications for messaging and collaboration among the inner core of the stakeholders, with emphasis on the consortium partners. Events are posted and shared through Google Calendar and the knowledge repository is constructed over an open Wiki platform. Other tools include Skypecasts, email and SMS. The SAVE ENERGY services syndicates data to and from the building management systems and operate as a broker of information for the real time information systems and the serious game.

The SAVE ENERGY communities will provide a social networking platform to build online communities of practice where users can share location, interests and activities or participate in the interests and activities of other users. These communities are closed linked with best of the breed Web 2.0 tools already available in the Internet to share blogging and microblogging posts, podcasts, documents, videos, bookmarks, presentations and photos. The SAVE ENERGY Portal aggregates information from all the other components through widgets, RSS feeds, links, add-ons and embedding of applications or multimedia resources.

Internet Dissemination Conceptual Architecture