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Monday, June 2nd, 2008After reading Jay Thompson’s post about Marketing on Twitter, it’s looking like the answer should be “Yes”.
What is Social Media?
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
[via Ubertor Real Estate Blog]
Want to Integrate Google Earth into a Browser-Based Web App? Now You Can
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Today, Paul Rademacher, a Technical Lead for Google Earth, announced the release of the Google Earth browser plug-in on the Google Lat Long Blog:
Today, I’m happy to announce the release of the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google Earth to the web, embeddable within your own web site. Driven [...]
Local Matters Purchases the Point2 Facebook Neighborhoods Application
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Probably as a result of coming on a day where the NAR-DOJ agreement stole the headlines, there was an announcement today in the real estate tech world that went largely unnoticed — Local Matters and Point2 announced “an Agreement of Sale and Cooperation for Point2’s Facebook Neighborhoods application.”
You can read more background at Evans ink, [...]
A New Aggregator on the Scene — RealSeekr
Friday, May 23rd, 2008In case you missed it, there is a new aggregator on the scene in the real estate industry — RealSeekr, which was announced early this week and was covered on Agent Genius yesterday (and there are already 30 comments).
When I was in New York back in January for Real Estate Connect the website was [...]
Are You A Rookie with Social Media? No Worries — Social Media U to the Rescue
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb has put together a great post for anyone looking for a crash course in social media. Here are the lessons in Social Media U:
Personal branding (a topic I’ve written about before)
Know what web 2.0 is and how to use it
Learn to use YouTube to convey a message (below is a [...]
Real Estate Listing Syndication Comparison for Technology Vendors and Brokerages
Friday, May 16th, 2008I’m not sure how many people saw the news that Google Spreadsheets can now be edited by anyone, but the concept of a a wiki-style spreadsheet caught my attention. You now no longer have to “invite” people in order to have them contribute and edit a Google Spreadsheet.
With listing syndication hot on people’s minds of [...]
Point2 & RealtyTrac Enter Marketing Partnership
Thursday, May 15th, 2008I thought the fact that Point2 and RealtyTrac announced a marketing partnership today might be of interest to some of you.
Google Maps Adds Real Estate Search
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008As of today, Google Maps now has an integrated real estate search. You can head on over to Future of Real Estate Marketing for commentary from Joel.
More coverage:
PC World - Google Now Does Real Estate Searches in Maps: We’re Not Impressed
lifehacker - Google Now Maps Real Estate Listings
Screenwerk - Google Adds RE Search Option to [...]
Tips to Using Video to Help Sell Properties
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Doug Heddings, who covers the Manhattan market at True Gotham, has built a great brand for himself with the help of video. However, he gets more than branding from his video efforts — he actually uses video to help move properties. Doug was a guest on Inman TV on Friday and gave some great tips [...]
How to Create Embeddable Spreadsheets for Your Blog
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008If you ask me, one of the hardest pieces of blogging is consistently finding content ideas. One possible source of interesting content is pure data — essentially, anything in a spreadsheet is potential blog content.
Though Google Docs can also be used to embed a spreadsheet, the tool I’m going to demonstrate is EditGrid. Here is [...]
Some Links for Geeks
Monday, May 5th, 2008Here are a couple links worth checking out:
The Trick To Adding Local Search To Your Website or Blog
The Simple Way To Get Personal Emails From Your Blog’s Readers
