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I 2nd Russell’s point. I’m not going to single anyone out by name or with a link, but there have been several personal attacks in the RE.net over the past several months that have bothered me. This is just a friendly reminder for everyone to follow one of Dustin’s rules when writing — “If you [...]

Christopher Zabka & I have launched a new blog titled Real Estate Politics and we’d love to get feedback from the Geek Estate audience. The purpose of the blog is to encourage balanced discussion of industry topics, with the goal of allowing both sides to have an equally strong voice. Related to that, one thing [...]

Have you been blogged?

[via MyTechOpinion]

Real Estate blogging has many advantages for real estate professionals. Drew Meyers and Brian Rothenberg recently talked about tips for marketing your blog. In addition to those two great posts, bloggers need to be aware of what their users are looking for, then cater to their users. Pay careful attention to your [...]

Recently at the DEMO Conference (a conference for start-ups to showcase their new technologies), a company called Sprout launched a new application that allows anyone to create a professional Widget. Real Estate agents will like this new slick tool in that it is very easy to use. The interface is a Flash based WYSIWYG that [...]

Many of you may have Zolve.com blog accounts. Its a real estate focused blogging network similar to ActiveRain.com and RealTown.com. According to their site, they have plotted 4008 network participants throughout the world. What makes it nice is how the drill down shows members by state, county and city.

Check it and see if you are [...]

Over the past 2 years, I’ve seen numerous real estate blogs adopt the MyBlogLog Recent Readers widget — and I love the fact that so many use it. However, I have yet to see a real estate blogger adopt the new About Me widget MBL announced in mid-December. I think this is a great way [...]

Last week, I mentioned that guest blogging is one way to market your blog. If you watch 60 Minutes regularly, there’s a good chance that you know Anderson Cooper (an employee of CNN) has contributed stories to 60 minutes every couple weeks for quite awhile (his latest feature was an eye-opening one on “War Against [...]

Andy Kaufman has announced today on the AgentGenius blog and Zebra Talk that he is coordinating a BarCamp to take place a day ahead of the Inman Connect Conference in SF this summer. I think it’s a great idea and I plan to do all I can to help him with the effort. If you’re [...]

One of the better panels at Inman Connect tackled the issue of marketing your blog. Moderated by Joel Burslem the panelists included:
Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC
Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National & Author, MyTechOpinion.com
Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real Estate
And none other than GeekEstate’s own: Drew Meyers, Community Relations [...]

First of all, I loved all the coverage of Inman Connect New York last week. Between all the blog posts, message boards, and live Twitters, it allowed me to feel like I was there listening to the speakers myself. Bill Wendel as RealEstateCafe used Twitter during the conference to ask questions via proxy, very nice [...]

As a follow-up to Drew’s marketing your blog post, I thought I’d re-cap of some of the main points that I touched on during Wednesday’s Marketing Your Blog panel at Inman Real Estate Connect.
Moderator Joel Burslem kicked off the discussion with the question “how do real estate bloggers compete with major online real estate sites [...]