Office Technology
For Real Estate or for “Piece of Mind”, Digsby is “The Bomb”
Monday, April 28th, 2008Thanks to my newest BFF’s at makeuseof.com (an absolute must for any RSS Reader), I have found Digsby! I have been looking long and hard for an application that can allow me “All-in-one” access to my Emails, Social Networks (Twitter, Facebook, & MySpace), and my IM accounts (Yahoo Messenger, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Google Talk, and […]
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Who needs a local desktop anymore?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008In a world that is rapidly filling up with internet access points, that question might be more and more realistic. Introducing Ulteo.com, a complete online desktop with the tools to do most day to day work. I urge you to take a look at this, and see what you think. True, working […]
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“Old School” Real Estate vs “Tech Savvy” Agents
Friday, March 14th, 2008I have coffee every weekday morning with a group of guys at our local Starbucks. Yesterday our resident “Answer Man”, Gerry (Gerry is like 50 yrs old or so), ran across a young “Tech Savvy” Real Estate Agent in line with a rather unique hairdo….
“Tech Savvy” Real Estate Agent
…Ok, so while Gerry is staring at […]
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Did You Ever Notice Your Best Thoughts are on the Toilet?
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Ok, I don’t know about you guys, but for me it seems that my best thoughts come to me when I am “Going Potty” or driving on the freeway! the 2 most inopportune times in life to (jott) down a note.
Until now it has frustrated the heck out of me…AAAARRRGHH (mean sound). then (while I […]
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PdaNet for Treos
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008As a Realtor, I like many of you, am on the run a lot and don’t always have the luxury of being at my office. And in a time where a 5 minute response time is 5 minutes too long, I depend on my phone and my laptop. And while we all have […]
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Save the planet, be more geeky.
Sunday, January 6th, 2008I know a few agents in the Portland area that are working to save the environment and cut paperwork by using a new service called DocuSign. We can all do our part in 2008 for our planet, and I think that online document signing could be a great first step. The legalities of […]
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2007, a bad year for OS upgrades?
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007As a nerd, I like to check out the end of the year lists that most companies put out. You can find thousands just by typing “Best of 2007″ in Google and waste a couple of days getting feedback from everyone. One list I thought people should take a look at is straight […]
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EurekaWare, Real Estate Agent software working with Outlook 2003
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I’m sure most everyone is already familiar with Top Producer. If not, it is basically THE tool for agents to manage their contacts, set up action plans, and anything else you would need to do on a day to day basis. For anyone who doesn’t know how it runs on a technical level, […]
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Top Producer 8i is on the Way, Here’s My Wishlist
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I was notified of the upcoming Top Producer 8i website today. I’d heard rumors that agents were testing Top Producer 8i Beta earlier this summer, but never received full details on the differences in the new version.
The Top Producer team seems to be integrating their tool with a great deal of vendors, which is key […]
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Backup Your PC — Now!
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007This post doesn’t have nearly the geek factor of Robbie’s Trulia API in PHP post (what would?). But it’s really important…
As a technology inclined real estate professional you no doubt have a LOT of files on your computer. Your client database, contracts, listing agreements, blog posts, marketing materials, website content, photos, and more. What […]
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