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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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