Communication category archives

“This is not my Locker” I know it is inevitable that I will be asked (perhaps 100′s of times) “What did you learn from Inman Connect SF this week”? or “What was the most interesting thing you learned at Inman Connect SF”? or some variation of that general question. In years past I may have [...]

When Eric Bryant wrote the original Kiss Your “RSS” Good-bye, he was referring to RSS feeds being a thing of the past as social networking sites like Twitter provided a filter for really good articles, “Kinda like a ‘Human Aggregator’”. I thought this was a smart observation, but Eric’s post had to do with RSS [...]

 With everyone wanting to maximize our ‘social graph’ when it comes to either building our real estate business or our personal brand, sometimes that can come with a price: privacy. Being that most everyone reading Geek Estate is on Facebook in some capacity, I wanted to share this with you tool with you – Facebook [...]

photo credit: Sirinyay If you are coming to REBarCamp/Phoenix, (and why not?) here’s your chance to connect with others on the increasingly popular social network http://foursquare.com Personally, I joined a while back and then didn’t do anything with it.  Since SXSW I’ve been experimenting with different ways to use it and connect to people I know [...]

The following is just my personal opinion.  How you use Twitter is entirely up to you and as far as I’m concerned, you are right. With that said, assuming you are in sales, or in the “engagement” business I believe in the AutoFollow.  I set mine up in using SocialOomph.com so that anytime someone follows [...]

I just finished reading Matthew’s post on ClickTale, and I’ve gotta say I’m pretty impressed; I’m pretty sure we’re all huge fans of real time analytics and the ability to watch an actual user session is amazing! We also had a great post on human aggregators on Twitter. More and more Real Estate Professionals are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As many social media experts, gurus, and ninjas try to “monetize” social media for their clients, others are focusing simply on the connection and interaction with clients.  Dare I say “engaging”?  Engagement used to be for when 2 people decided to get married, but today it has quickly become the reason you use Twitter, Facebook, [...]

Kiss Your “RSS” Goodbye! Ok, so I’m hosting “The World’s Best IRL Meetup” for VREBC (Virtual REBarCamp) yesterday in Costa Mesa w/ The talented Ms. Stacey Harmon (and a Cameo appearance by Everyone’s Tech Guy, Loren Nason) when during a break in the action a fantastic, intuitive, spontaneous discussion breaks out! (that’s why we do [...]

Lately I’ve been revisiting my goals from 2009, setting new ones for 2010 and trying to find ways to streamline my workflow to make things more efficient. One web-based trick I’ve been using to do that is Timebridge. Timebridge gives you the power to set up a meeting without all the typical back-and-forth emails trying [...]

A couple of months ago I was using Twitter search and discovered Deed Street.  Deed Street is an open micro-blogging platform which offers aggregation of real estate Tweets using the “^” tag on Twitter.  The site, which was launched in September, requires a user to either login using their Twitter account or to simply post [...]