Blogging category archives

Those who know me know that I’m a big fan of a strong voice when blogging. As I’ve told many people, I can find information anywhere so what I really gravitate towards are people who write and personal and passionate in their writing. I’m working on a new Blogging Training Course for YouReach Media and [...]

Or was it the other way around? photo credit: thisisbossi Ether way if you clicked that highly seductive “automatic upgrade” and installed 3.0 over your Thesis theme you may now have issues. Ive seen some where the blog won’t load. I’ve seen some where various dashboard items won’t load. The culprit seems to be this [...]

Exciting news! Fresh from today’s Facebook f8 conference in San Francisco, there’s a whole slew of new Facebook social plugins that you can easily incorporate into your site: All Facebook Social Plugins You can also read more about Facebook’s new direction here: The Next Evolution of the Facebook Platform Drew and Justin have recently written some [...]

I thought I’d piggy back on Drew’s post on How Are You Using Facebook Pages As Part of Your Real Estate Business? and offer a couple of quick tips to help you integrate your new Facebook pages with your wordpress blog. Fotobook – Ever wanted to automatically post all of your facebook photos to your [...]

Ok, first off, if I am wrong I will write a letter of apology to all person’s involved in this. But, I came across, an all to familiar, exchange on Trulia Voices today. Granted, I AM NOT A PRACTICING REALTOR (though I do hold a license to do so). I work with Realtors, assisting them [...]

If you’ve spent any time at all in the real estate social media and tech space, you’ve run into Mike Mueller. I remember my first time very well. He pointed a video camera at me (without warning) and started interviewing me at an event in San Francisco. He’s become a good pal over the years. [...]

Creating A Conduit Toolbar for Internet Browsers Conduit.com is a site that allows you to create a “custom” toolbar that works with popular Internet browsers like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.  The toolbar can be custom created from scratch, then offered as an additional tool allowing users a direct interface or “Conduit” to [...]

What the heck is a RainCamp™? Isn’t it really a TechCamp?  Is RainCamp™ anything like REBarCamp?  Maybe you heard this is an event for ActiveRain only?  What makes RainCamp™ different, and why would you want to attend?  Do I have to pay a fee to attend a RainCamp™?  What’s the true value and benefit of [...]

You might remember just a few short weeks ago I wrote a post, here on GEB, coining the phrase “Human Aggregators”, entitled “Kiss Your RSS Good-Bye”. It was about how, using an application like Tweetdeck (Though Hootsuite and others would work as well), you could essentially reduce your time commitment on reading, recommending, and even commenting on [...]

Back on December 23, I wrote an article here on GeekEstate Blog about a WordPress plugin that Diverse Solutions was developing that would allow IDX listings to be fully indexed by search engines. Earlier this week, the plugin came out of beta testing and has been released for general availability. Here is part of the [...]

Everyone knows that the quickest way to make a website stand out from the crowd is by hosting tons of high quality content. It sounds simple, but producing lots of great content is extraordinarily tough and time consuming! Thankfully, the real estate space is littered with free out-of-the-box tools that savvy agents can use to [...]

Taking a look at blogs around the internet there’s really one factor that sets the good ones apart from the bad, and that’s simply the depth of discussion on the content (posts) on that blog. Beyond the content on the blog itself, the template, et. al., there are a couple of simple plugins that can [...]