activerain: "New and Improved!" - Recent Changes to ActiveRain - 01/18/08 01:35 PM
Several improvements were rolled out in the ActiveRain platform last night (actually, early this morning).
They include:
New Search program - Can I get a huge collective "AMEN!" from the group? You'll now find a customized Google search that provides much more accurate results, and allows you to break down the search filter by … (99 comments)
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activerain: Labor Day Weekend - Lets look at some of the Hardest Working AR Members - 09/01/07 08:24 PM
Here are some interesting thoughts... As of today, here are the top 10 point earners here at ActiveRain.
Let us look at the breakdown:
Four out of the ten are from Florida, currently there are 5,786 members from Florida. Florida is by far the most competitive of all the states!Together the Top … (49 comments)
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activerain: Press Release: ActiveRain Founders To Announce Winners Of Blogging Competition At Inman News’ Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007 - 07/30/07 03:50 PM
SEATTLE, July 30, 2007 - ActiveRain CEO Matt Heaton and President Jon Washburn, co-founders of ActiveRain, the nation's largest social networking site for real estate professionals, will announce the winners of Project Blogger at Inman News' Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007.
Project Blogger, sponsored by ActiveRain and Inman News, is a … (6 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain Press Release 7/11 - 07/11/07 12:18 PM
ActiveRain's Membership Surges To 35,000 In First Year
World's Largest Social Networking Site For Real Estate Professionals
Grows Faster Than Wikipedia In Inaugural Year
SEATTLE, July 11, 2007 - ActiveRain, the world's largest social networking site for real estate professionals, marked its one-year anniversary today by surpassing 35,000 members and 120,000 posts, and … (97 comments)
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activerain: Independence Day 2007 - 07/04/07 03:08 AM
The ActiveRain Team would like to wish you and your family a very happy 4th of July! Like other holiday's there is no easy way to decide which post to feature. So here is a selection of posts written by our members that we have found... Feel free to link to … (40 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain in the News - 06/18/07 12:05 AM
ActiveRain in the News is a place to keep track of the exposure ActiveRain is getting in both the real estate and main stream media. If you know of an article about ActiveRain not listed here, please Contact Support or leave a comment and we will add it to the list.
… (16 comments)
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activerain: Happy Father's Day! - 06/17/07 09:35 AM
Happy Father's Day from ActiveRain! Here is a collection of posts from our members! Once again it is impossible to feature all of these posts!
If we missed your post, please put it in the comments!
We hope all our Active|Dad's have a great day!
Someday I hope I can be a Dad … (27 comments)
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activerain: Community Update - 06/11/07 08:22 PM
LISTINGS POINTS
As of June 4th ActiveRain is no longer giving points for Listings. There have been a number of issues regarding points and listings so we had to stop awarding them. Posts that are made to the wrong category may be removed from all categories all together so please try and … (164 comments)
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activerain: New batch of ActiveRain enhancements - 06/06/07 09:54 AM
We just put up a new batch of enhancements to ActiveRain based off of your requests these past couple weeks. These enhancements are a part of a continuous effort to improve your experience and provide you with more ways to find content.
New filter for blog posts:
Enhancement #1 is an additional filter for … (67 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain Community Resources - Updated 06/18/08 - 05/19/07 02:30 PM
At times we will be refeaturing this post so new members can see it and as we add some of your excellent posts to this list of Resources!
The wonderful thing about Active Rain is the fact that members share their knowledge with each other. Several new members have asked about a … (165 comments)
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activerain: Non-member comment notification improvements - 05/12/07 01:18 PM
This morning we put up a couple minor feature enhancements to ActiveRain, which members keep asking for. Here are two of the main ones.
Comment notification for non-members
We added a new way for non-activerain members to receive email notifications of replies to comments they leave on blogs here at ActiveRain. This enhancement … (28 comments)
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activerain: Big traffic increases for ActiveRain and Localism - 03/22/07 04:54 PM
Back on January, 30th I made a post about both ActiveRain.com and Localism.com achieving some traffic milestones.
ActiveRain and Localism each hit milestones yesterday
I like to share these milestones as ActiveRain makes it march towards, uh, world domination. I love numbers so their fun to occassionally take a look at, and it also effects how … (59 comments)
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activerain: Support for video and multimedia on ActiveRain - 02/28/07 03:14 PM
As of this morning we've made some adjustments to our platform that should allow members to more easily include, video, podcasts and other multimedia in their blog posts. This had been one of the common complaints with our platform and we are working to solve it as we work towards the … (34 comments)
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activerain: Question and Answer: Ask a Real Estate Professional - 02/24/07 11:04 AM
I was talking to Jim Cronin from The Real Estate Tomato ealier today and he mentioned that there are three things that increasingly are defining consumers on the Internet.
They want access to as much information as possible.They want to maintain their privacy and anonymity. They don't want to make a committment until … (57 comments)
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activerain: In the works - Customizing Your ActiveRain Blog - 02/18/07 05:40 PM
One of the most commonly mentioned shortcomings of blogging on ActiveRain has been the lack of customizability of the platform of members blogs. We work to create a very easy to use platform for the real estate industry and never intend or do intend to compete with the feature sets of other … (45 comments)
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activerain: Fair housing and ActiveRain - 02/17/07 12:16 PM
ActiveRain Fair Housing
When making any posting on ActiveRain, you must comply with section 3604(c) of the Federal Fair Housing Act. This law generally prohibits stating, in any notice or ad for the sale or rental of a dwelling, a discriminatory preference based on any of the following protected categories: * Race … (45 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain and Localism each hit milestones yesterday - 01/30/07 12:15 PM
Yes, I've been pretty quiet on ActiveRain as of late, but that's a good thing. It means I'm focusing more attention "behind the scenes" on improving ActiveRain's future. I did notice that both ActiveRain.com and Localism.com hit traffic milestones yesterday.
ActiveRain.com had it's first day with over 10k unique visitors (10,308 to … (16 comments)
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activerain: Jonathan makes his triumphant return to ActiveRain - 01/20/07 03:28 PM
We are please to announce that Jonathan Washburn, one the original founders of ActiveRain has returned to a full-time position with the company. A little over a year and a half ago, long before the ActiveRain Real Estate Network was launched, Jon left to focus on his other real estate ventures including Brio Realty.
Many of you … (40 comments)
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activerain: Lots of site updates Tuesday morning... - 01/15/07 12:44 AM
Just a heads up to ActiveRain members, there will be a whole bunch of site updates coming on Tuesday morning. Many of these updates are based on member feedback over the previous two weeks. Here's a bullet list of some of the updates, there will be more details Tuesday morning.
Members will … (39 comments)
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activerain: Top referrers, image uploaders, posters and more... - 01/15/07 12:28 AM
In early Dec. I put up a post highlighting some of the top contributors the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, Top member referrers in november. I thought I do a followup post to highlight the top referrers in December and also some of the other top contributors towards building Localism. Right now … (29 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain traffic stats - 01/03/07 11:41 AM
I used to occasionally put up a post about the growth in traffic to ActiveRain, but I haven't done so in a few months. Just been way too busy. But after seeing what is happening the last couple days I thought I had to share.
Yesterday alone, ActiveRain.com had a record of 8,834 unique visitors, … (59 comments)
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activerain: Upload regional photos to Localism.com and earn points! - 12/29/06 03:30 PM
For those of you that haven't yet heard about the consumer side to ActiveRain at Localism.com (under construction) you might want to check out the following posts.
What is Localism? Some Localism.com updates What's Your Strategy for ActiveRain/Localism: "Umbrella or Bucket?" We want to compile a list of photos and images that represent the … (74 comments)
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activerain: Some Localism.com updates - 12/22/06 02:02 PM
This morning we put up a new "build" of ActiveRain.com, that added the ability for members to flag blog posts. At the same time we also released several enhancements to our consumer portal Localism.com that is currently under development. If you missed our original post earlier this week about localism, you can … (40 comments)
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activerain: Post Flagging - 12/22/06 11:36 AM
As I mentioned in a post yesterday we have a new tool in the system now. You can now flag posts to be featured or edited.
The purpose of this new tool is to help keep the community running smoothly. It is not to identify "bad" people, but in a large network … (43 comments)
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activerain: What is Localism? - 12/18/06 03:23 PM
For several months we've been talking about how we are going to construct a consumer facing side to ActiveRain. There has been a lot of speculation on what form this would take, so we decided to give our members a sneak peak into the ongoing development efforts at Localism.com We are still several … (72 comments)
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activerain: Getting a Group Started - 12/11/06 05:32 PM
The new ActiveRain Groups Tools present a great way to set up a community of like-minded professionals focusing on a particular topic or theme.
I hope that through reading this and related posts you'll be a better more effective leader, and member of the groups that pique your interests.
Setting up a … (7 comments)
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activerain: Creating a group within ActiveRain - 12/08/06 09:48 PM
This is the technical description of how to set up a group. There is more to it than this please review this getting a group started post. (coming soon.)
To create a group, be sure you are logged in.
Go to the Groups page. Click "Start New Group". After clicking “Start New Group” you’ll … (6 comments)
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activerain: New group features - 12/07/06 03:46 PM
Since we put up the beta of the groups functionality about a week and a half ago, we've steadily launched features and enhancements and have quite a few more coming early tomorrow morning. So here's a rundown of things that have been added since we put up the initial beta or … (57 comments)
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activerain: Group Types - 12/07/06 03:37 PM
There are an unlimited number of groups that could be created in ActiveRain but they are generally going to fall into a few categories.
Regional groups
You should all belong to a regional group! Be it that you belong to a particular state, city, or neighborhood group, you should all be … (8 comments)
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activerain: Groups - 12/05/06 02:35 PM
What’s with groups?
The ActiveRain Real Estate Network has just passed the 10,000 member point and this community is growing.
With all these members there are currently a large number of posts to read and people to get to know. We didn’t feel that having one forum in which to view them … (35 comments)
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activerain: Top member referrers in november - 12/01/06 04:19 AM
I was up late tonight so I decided to look at which member's referred the most people to ActiveRain in the month of November. So without further ado, here are the top 3 (who will receive bonus points):
Tony Marriott
49 members referred
Nima "The Mortgage Man"
45 members referred
Suzanne Marriott
26 members referred
Thanks again to … (19 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain member 10K!!! - 11/30/06 01:51 PM
It looks like ActiveRain just crossed a major milestone. We just had our 10,000th activated profile on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. Andrea Ambrose referred the member number 10k and got a whole bunch of bonus points.
Thanks again to our members to continuing to make the ActiveRain Real Estate Network a … (45 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain groups (beta) - Feedback and issues - 11/28/06 11:38 AM
This morning we pushed up a beta for the groups functionality on ActiveRain. It's still pretty rough but we like to just put stuff out there, so we can get feedback and quickly improve on it. Please let us know what you think and if you have any suggestions. A couples … (65 comments)
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activerain: Share The Rain - 11/27/06 04:05 PM
Membership Bonus
As we near the 10K mark we’re offering a 75 point bonus (Total points awarded will be 100.) for activated members that result directly from your inviting others. This will be in effect for all activated profiles from now and up to Monday December 4th at noon Pacific Standard Time.
… (26 comments)
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activerain: And Growing! - 11/27/06 03:58 PM
10,000 Coming soon.
The ActiveRain Real Estate Network has been in existence for just about six months now, and today we are quickly nearing the 10K mark for activated member profiles. This represents nearly 10,000 individuals and companies from across the United States and Canada who are benefiting from the … (11 comments)
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activerain: Major ActiveRain feature release - Tuesday morning - 11/26/06 05:39 PM
We are doing a large release of new features on ActiveRain.com very early Tuesday morning (4:00 am PST). The main item in this release will be the beta launch of Groups on ActiveRain.
For several months it has become very clear that for ActiveRain to continue growing there needs to be a way for … (42 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain week in review #3 - 11/20/06 04:17 PM
This is the third edition of the ActiveRain week in review where we'll highlight some of the most discussed topics and blog posts made during the last week. You can find an archive of the past week in reviews here. Feel free to repost the ActiveRain week in review on your non ActiveRain … (35 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain week in review #2 - 11/14/06 05:38 PM
Last week we did the first ActiveRain week in review to highlight particular events and posts during the previous week on ActiveRain. I was so busy at the NAR conference I didn't have a chance to do one for this last week but I noticed that Bryant Tutas was kind enough … (9 comments)
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activerain: A couple of ActiveRain changes - 11/09/06 10:42 AM
Early this morning we put up several small enhancements to the ActiveRain system. Ben pushes them live at about 4:00 am well before I'm awake, so I'm just now writting the post about them.
1. We added a hit counter to blogs as suggested by numerous people. This hit counter displays at … (39 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain week in review #1 - 11/06/06 12:36 PM
I thought that it would be kinda cool to do a little recap of different things that happened on ActiveRain and blog themes that seemed to be running through the week. With so many posts getting made and 10-20 being featured each day A LOT of great posts get missed. I'll … (38 comments)
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activerain: Write-up about ActiveRain at realtor.org - 11/03/06 04:34 PM
Bob Stewart of Brio Realty sent me a link to an article he just found today on NAR's website realtor.org.
It's called "A web 2.0 Sampler: YouTube, ActiveRain and iTV" and like the title implies, it describes three web 2.0 companies that are impacting the online real estate space. It feels pretty good … (29 comments)
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activerain: Reaching Out - 10/23/06 05:11 PM
For some time now ActiveRain has been working toward bettering your experience on The Network and helping you connect with each other. Through your suggestions we have made a very large list of updates and changes. We continually work on this and as we see it this is a never ending … (25 comments)
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activerain: Blog categories - Where should I put my post? - 10/21/06 02:33 PM
Here's a description of the various categories blog posts can be put assist others in finding them. There is no requirement to add a post to a category, or sub category. If you don't feel you post fits in one of the categories don't add it, people can still view your … (34 comments)
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activerain: New blog categories and regional blog display - 10/21/06 01:50 PM
About 3:00 am PST the proposed blog category changes went into effect. Instead of the previous 5 categories there are two main categories, "For Real Estate Professionals" and "For Consumers" each with a set of sub categories. This new category system is to help people efficiently find the posts they want … (21 comments)
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activerain: Proposed blog category changes - 10/19/06 02:13 PM
Based on feedback we are going to try to be more pro-active in getting members involved in updates to the system before we make them. This will prevent people from being so surprised when something changes and also get feedback before implementing a change.
One of the changes we plan to make … (38 comments)
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activerain: Changes Coming To Blog Limits. - 10/16/06 08:28 PM
Trying to keep up?
There will be an update to our blogging engine coming down the pipe. Starting Sunday post point limits will be set at 10 posts per week scored at 200 points each. We welcome you posting more, automated scoring will be limited to 10 per week. The scheduled … (63 comments)
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activerain: Associate blog groups - 10/08/06 08:00 PM
This morning we made a couple changes to a feature that many members never knew existed but judging from the reaction many members rely on. That feature is called "associate" blogs. Under your profile you can create groups that you can add member's to, in ActiveRain speak these are associate groups. … (19 comments)
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activerain: Who's going to NAR New Orleans - 10/05/06 12:11 AM
There's been a couple post about this over the last month or two, but now that the date is just a little over a month off I was curious who's going to "NARdi GRAS", this years NAR convention. It's taking place November 10th-13th and more information can be found here...
The reason … (24 comments)
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activerain: Blog bookmarking - 10/03/06 12:48 AM
Several members asked for an easy way to bookmark posts to read later, so we just implemented it...
Now at the bottom of each blog post next to the rating control a "Bookmark" icon will appear (if logged in).
Clicking on the "Bookmark" icon will add the post to your onsite bookmarks and … (38 comments)
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activerain: Seattle ActiveRain get together, Oct. 11th at Buckley's - 10/02/06 12:12 AM
A few weeks ago there was a thread about doing an informal get together to ActiveRain members in the Seattle area. I'm finally making an executive decision here and we're going to meet up the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 11th at Buckley's on Queen Anne. Buckley's is a fairly quite neighborhood … (22 comments)
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activerain: Contest #1: And we have a winner - 10/01/06 12:02 PM
Back on August 15th we started a contest to see who could come closest to guessing the number of members we'd have on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network on the beginning of October. At the time of the contest starting (82 days after launch) we had 3,158 members.
At the stroke of … (25 comments)
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activerain: How do you browse blog posts on ActiveRain? - 09/21/06 12:07 AM
As most people that have been viewing this site for any amount of time know, we're in a constant struggle to create a better experience for our users. One of the main issues is how do allow users to most efficiently view the blog posts that they want to read. So … (60 comments)
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activerain: System downtime Thursday night 10:00 pm PST - 09/20/06 07:47 PM
We are going to be launched a cool search that will allow users to search blog entries, forums, and profiles Thursday (tomorrow). This release will require the site to be offline for about a half an hour as all of the existing content is indexed and is scheduled to take place at … (19 comments)
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activerain: More updates to ActiveRain last night... - 09/19/06 12:43 PM
Some of you may have already noticed but we made several updates to ActiveRain last night. Here's a quick rundown of what they are...
1. We added two additional catagories that blog entries may be posted to "Advertising a Listing" and "Other Advertisement. While we didn't exactly intend for people to use the blogs … (34 comments)
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activerain: Lets get creative - ActiveRain t-shirt design contest - 09/13/06 01:15 PM
Lets get those creative juices flowing...
We're going to hold an ongoing contest for an ActiveRain t-shirt/sweatshirt design. I've had this on my mind for a little bit ever since the "Race for 3rd" t-shirts, but Steve Campbell gave me a little kick in the rear yesterday with his post. We're asking members … (17 comments)
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activerain: Seattle area ActiveRain members, lets get together - 09/12/06 10:06 PM
We were thinking it would be fun to do an offline get together of Seattle area, ActiveRain members. It would be something informal like meeting somewhere in the area for drinks on a weekday evening. This would be a great opportunity to get to know each other a little better, share … (33 comments)
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activerain: Changing blog titles and other ActiveRain settings - 09/11/06 09:37 PM
I'm not sure if many people are aware but it is easy to change the title of your personal blog on ActiveRain. When a user account is created the default title for the blog is "firstname's blog". Even many of the frequent posters still have their title set to the default, … (9 comments)
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activerain: Just pushed lots of new site updates - 09/11/06 09:24 PM
Ben just pushed up a big round of enhancements to our live servers. Here's a run-down of the major ones...
1. Added the last 10 (public) featured blog postings to the front page. A few people had commented that they had originally though ActiveRain was simply a real estate directory, so by … (12 comments)
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activerain: Tribute to September 11th on ActiveRain - 09/11/06 01:18 PM
If you haven't noticed yet, we've decided to feature blog postings by our members about the memories, thoughts and life changes caused by September 11th. We thought that it would be a fitting tribute to the victims of this tragedy.
-Matt Heaton
… (4 comments)
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activerain: Geo targetting featured profiles on home page - 09/10/06 02:39 PM
I just thought I'd let people know ahead of time of a change that will be going into effect early this week, so we don't get hundreds of support emails saying something is broken. We are going to try targeting the featured profiles displayed on the front page to the state the … (13 comments)
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activerain: Bad Gateway - 09/08/06 11:21 AM
Many of you who attempted to reach ActiveRain this morning were greeted with a friendly message "Bad Gateway" and weren't able to login. Sorry about this "our bad."
Our hosting provider upgraded our hardware which should speed things up at ActiveRain. Unfortunately we planned for the hardware upgrade on the wrong day, and … (7 comments)
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activerain: How do we choose featured blog posts - 09/07/06 07:19 AM
I got posed this question. How do we decide which blog posts to give that little gold star and make featured. First off what is a featured blog post?
Featured blog posts appear prominently on the "Blog Dashboard" and we try to rotate the list, so that we display a full new … (8 comments)
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activerain: Rate this blog post - 08/31/06 12:34 PM
Roberta Murphy mentioned in a blog post this morning that she just noticed a new control at the bottom of each blog post (when logged in) titled "Rate this blog".
It's not actually new, it's been there all along, we just renamed it from "Do you find this post interesting?" It gives … (12 comments)
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activerain: Blog scoring updates - 08/31/06 11:59 AM
Ok, so we tried it and we heard from you, a lot. We tried going to a system of manually scoring every blog post in an attempt to stop to people posting garbage for points, and to control spam. It actually seemed to work fairly well in that respect, but it opened … (10 comments)
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activerain: Redefine and Refine Your Associations - 08/29/06 04:10 PM
Ben wrote earlier today about a number of new updates. There are a more to come of course but today I feel it's most important to talk about the new ability to group to group your ActiveRain Contacts. As this Network grows it will help you to be able to discern your … (12 comments)
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activerain: Blog Topic #4, "What's it to You?" - 08/21/06 02:57 PM
The ActiveRain Real Estate Community is growing quickly. Many of you have taken to it right away, making it a part of your regular professional resource kit. For some of you this community has become an extension of the working world you have off-line. Financially and professionally rewarding relationships are formed … (18 comments)
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activerain: Real Estate Tomato interviews ActiveRain CEO, Matt Heaton - 08/20/06 01:40 PM
Last week Jim Cronin of the Real Estate Tomato interviewed ActiveRain CEO, Matt Heaton. The resulting of that write-up can now be found here on the Real Estate Tomato blog. The interview was done as an informal phone conversation and Matt's responses to the questions were transcribed unedited, almost word for … (16 comments)
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activerain: Article about ActiveRain on Inman News - 08/16/06 02:41 PM
Inman News just published an article today on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network titled, "Real estate network elevates 'Net profiles". It's a pretty good article and Matt Carter of Inman news interviewed quite a few members of this network in writing it. In fact the article references several of these members … (25 comments)
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activerain: Blogging by the numbers - 08/15/06 02:03 PM
Based off a comment in the last blog post I decided to pull together a some statistics ranking various bloggers on the site in a couple catagories. Just for fun...
Most commented on (Avg, Min 5 posts):
ActiveRain's Blog (13.6 comments per post)Bill French's Blog (6.3 comments per post)Bryant Tutas's Blog (5.9 comments … (7 comments)
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activerain: Lets have a contest: Contest #1 - 08/15/06 12:16 PM
Eric Bouler suggested in a blog post that we should run a contest to see who can guess how many members we will have at the end of September, with points as a reward. I think that's a great idea, in fact I think running the some contests would be a … (70 comments)
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activerain: Scoring evolution: Blog post scoring changes - 08/11/06 03:43 PM
We are constantly evolving how we award points in order to reward the members who make the best contributions to the growth of the network. We have decided to change the awarding of points for blog posts from being an automatic process (200 pts for every post) to a manual process done by us and … (41 comments)
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activerain: Brio Realty integrates with the ActiveRain Real Estate Network - 08/08/06 11:01 AM
Just the other day we found another interesting use for the network. One of our customers Brio Realty has an IDX style home search on their web site. Brio wanted the ability to have their top agents displayed in various communities, cities, and counties that are part of their home search.
We … (10 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain's purpose and do we have a hidden agenda - 08/04/06 03:59 PM
I thought that we'd try to address some concern members/perspective members may have even if they have not been openly expressed. Many real estate professionals have worried about what is the long term goal of this network, do we have a "hidden agenda" and whether it truly benefits them to participate.
Admittedly there … (32 comments)
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activerain: Now we're movie (ok, podcast) stars - 07/31/06 05:33 PM
While we were down in San Francisco for the Inman Real Estate Connect conference Rodney Rumford of RealEstateBuzzBox.com did a video interview of us that he turned into a podcast on his site. Rodney filmed quite a bit of video down at Inman, so I'm sure several more podcasts will appear … (6 comments)
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activerain: Manual point bonus for interesting/unique/helpful contributions - 07/22/06 09:15 PM
Some members has expressed that we should provide additional opportunities for them to earn points. So, we are going to start awarding more bonus points to members who make helpful, interesting, or unique contributions to the network. This may include but is not limited to writing interesting and unique blog posts, answering questions … (19 comments)
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activerain: Blog comment spam - 07/22/06 09:09 AM
This issue has been brought up by several members who have been tired of other members leaving short, non informative comments on their blog posts in what appears to be an attempt to gain points. The has a detramental effect of cluttering up the blog postings and also causes the poster to … (40 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain - Forums are now live - 07/20/06 09:39 PM
We just launched discussion forums on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. These forums are accessable anywhere you are on the site via a link title "Forums" on the near the top of the screen. There are currently about 20 different discussion forums on various topics ranging from "Introductions" to "Search Engine … (5 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain - Blogging categories and groups - 07/20/06 08:40 PM
We just put up a new feature on the network to try and solve some of the clutter in the blogging section. We added 3 blog groups:
1. Group blog for real estate professionals (Read posting guidelines...)
2. Group blog for consumers (Read posting guidelines...)
3. Regional news and information (Read posting … (15 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain integrates with Google Base - 07/19/06 08:02 AM
We just finished implementing another way to help members of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network promote themselves and their businesses online. As of this morning we are now submitting profiles of members (real estate agents and brokers) into one of Google's newest services, Google Base (beta).
What is google base?
To quote Google, "Google Base is … (41 comments)
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activerain: More ActiveRain updates - 07/16/06 10:22 PM
Our developer Ben, just put up a bunch of new updates to the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. Pretty much all of them are based on feedback we recieved during the last week.
1. This last week we made a change so members only recieved points for 3 blog posts within a 24 hour … (24 comments)
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activerain: More pretty charts - Week 7 network growth - 07/13/06 08:37 PM
I thought I'd do an update to the post I put up last week showing some charts of ActiveRain's growth. Yesterday we easily blew past 1,000 members on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. Here's some updated charts showing the growth rate of this network through its first 7 weeks of existance.
-Matt … (29 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain blogging updates - 07/12/06 01:23 PM
As discussed in a previous post "The blog dumping epidemic" we implemented several changes to the blogging in an attempt to solve some issues brought up by our members. We implemented a limit of posts within a 24 hour period a member will recieve points for. We also implemented a cool feature … (29 comments)
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activerain: The blog dumping epidemic - 07/09/06 08:01 PM
I'm sure some of our members have noticed this. Occasionally a new member to the network will decide to essentially copy and paste the entire contents of an offsite blog or website into many posts on ActiveRain. While it's their blog and we want to let them do what they want … (58 comments)
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activerain: Scoring adjustments - 07/08/06 12:14 PM
During the last update to ActiveRain on Friday we made several adjustments to scoring and points. These adjustments will NOT effect points previously earned for actions, just for those actions going forward.
Why we do adjustments?
Points are intended to be a way to reward people for taking actions that help the ActiveRain Real Estate Network grow … (8 comments)
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activerain: Stability Updates Go Online - 07/07/06 05:47 PM
Thank you members. So many of you have done your part by taking care of your profiles, blogging regularly and inviting your associates to join.
As you know the network is still in Beta at this time. From time to time things will come up that need addressing. Many of you have … (11 comments)
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activerain: Ahhh, pretty charts - First 6 weeks of growth - 07/07/06 01:08 AM
It appears as though the growth of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network is really starting to pick up. There have been over 70 new signups today alone. Almost all the new member have come via user referrals/invites. I put together a couple of quick charts to show the growth of the network during … (8 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain and search engine rankings - 07/05/06 11:56 PM
Earlier today, Ben Kakimoto wrote a blog post about how his profile on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network is now one of the top ranking pages in Google for the key phrase "John L Scott Seattle", ranking just ahead of his main web site. Despite the young age of this network (less than 6 weeks) old, many of … (17 comments)
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activerain: Dealing with SPAM on ActiveRain - 07/01/06 11:17 PM
One of the issues that we knew from we'd have to deal with from the outset of building this network is how to deal with spam within the site. There is often fine line when it comes to classifying what is spam, especially on a site with a central focus on marketing. But, … (10 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain Real Estate Network... What's the Big Idea? - 06/30/06 06:25 PM
What's the Big Idea?The ActiveRain Real Estate Network is in development for professionals across The Real Estate Industry. The power of The Network exists in two parts. The first is as an easy, simple, and effective self promotion tool. The second is that it is the first of its kind social … (0 comments)
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activerain: Forums on their way - 06/30/06 12:50 PM
One of the next things we're going to add to the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, is discussion forums. Initially this will simply be a list of public forums but then will expand to allow users to create their own forums both public and private. We're trying to put together a list … (9 comments)
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activerain: Blogging feature updates - 06/30/06 12:15 PM
During the past couple days we've made several improvements to the blogging engine which we launched on Monday.
1. We now have feeds going out to all the major blog search engines (google-blogs, Technorati, Blogdigger, etc), there's about 15 in all. It may take them several days or weeks to get … (4 comments)
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activerain: "Blog Topic": Week #1 - 06/28/06 01:45 AM
Many real estate agents want to have their own blog but often are at a loss for good topics to write about. So, to try and spur some interesting posts and commentary within the ActiveRain blogs I thought we would try something a little unique...
Every week we will post a “Blog Topic” on the … (34 comments)
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activerain: Blogging tools added to Your Network - 06/27/06 07:04 PM
Members now have the ability to keep their own blog associated with their member profile on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. This gives us yet another way to promote our businesses and share information.
Blogs, or web-logs have quickly become one of the most popular and successful means to ways to … (9 comments)
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activerain: Shout out to the bloggers - 06/27/06 01:30 AM
I just wanted to recognize the various offsite bloggers who have wrote about the ActiveRain Real Estate Network in the past month. These people have been influential in the early growth of our network and we hope that they'll find some time to participate in the blogging which we have added … (3 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain Real Estate Network is 1 month old - 06/25/06 08:40 PM
As of today the ActiveRain Real Estate Network is officially 1 month old. During this first month we've had 350 people create profiles on the network, not bad for growing almost totally via member referrals. The daily growth rate is beginning to climb and it's a pretty good bet that we'll … (3 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain Corporation Hires New Marketing Executive - 06/25/06 05:45 PM
Real Estate Business tools Company Active Rain Corp. announces hiring of marketing executive.
Caleb Mardini will be coming on to take over the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Mardini a Seattle Native says that after co-founding WhyNotown.com he was looking for something new. "When I saw what ActiveRain was doing I … (3 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain Launches Real Estate Industry's First Social Networking Website - 06/25/06 05:43 PM
Real estate pros help develop their own free social networking tool.
Bellevue, WA 6/15/2006 4:30 PM GMT (TransWorldNews) Real estate B2B services company ActiveRain Corp. has launched the real estate industry's first online networking resource for real estate professionals. The ActiveRain Real Estate Network is helping real estate professionals to grow their … (6 comments)
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