activerain: Does Copyright Confuse You? - 05/19/12 08:57 AM
Should you worry about Copyright online? Does Copyright confuse you?
On your blog? Your website? Your newsletter? On ActiveRain? Social media?
The Professional Standards Committee of the National Association of REALTORS wants to help you with any confusion about copyright. Or maybe I should say "us." I admit there are times I am very confused about Copyright...
I said I was confused on a post about Pinterest. Or that I worry about Copyright:
"It is so confusing... I worried about Copyright right away. An SEO expert, WordPress blog seller on ActiveRain paraphrased me on ActiveRain as saying "Pinterest is stealing." … (10 comments)
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activerain: The Largest Real Estate Network Daily - 05/05/12 01:06 PM
Did your ActiveRain post make "The Largest Real Estate Network Daily" today?
The largest real estate network? ActiveRain. I believe that link will always show the current edition... of the "Daily"
"The Largest Real Estate Network Daily" is a Paper.li made up of only ActiveRain posts that are tweeted. The Paper.li picks the posts up because of ActiveRain being in the url. Unfamiliar with Paper.li ? It takes no effort to do a Paper.li. It is automated.
My Paper.li titled "Not Necessarily Real Estate News" is curated from a list of people in the mortgage and real estate industry (some … (2 comments)
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activerain: LinkedIn recommended YOUR ActiveRain post... - 03/23/12 04:58 AM
LinkedIn recommended YOUR ActiveRain post...
This morning in my mail LinkedIn recommended an ActiveRain post written by Angie Nwanodi because the post is hot with Microsoft and IBM:
The five articles in the weekly email were all trending with Microsoft and IBM. "The week's top news, tailored for you" from LinkedIn is all real estate and Angie and ActiveRain are in good company...
inc.com money.cnn.com money.cnn.com online.wsj.com activerain.com - > Angie Nwanodi
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activerain: Don't Forget to set up Hit Router for FREE : New Members... - 03/06/12 07:09 AM
New members and old members.... Don't Forget to set up Hit Router on your ActiveRain account
If you are a real estate agent don't forget to set up Hit Router, especially the FREE part.... stagers etc. not something that affects you.
Hit Router says:
"Route consumers to your sites for free when they search for home listings in your markets while viewing your profile, blog, or individual blog posts."
Even if you are NOT a RainMaker I would do it so any traffic on my killer profile (you have a killer profile don't you?)
Where do you set up Hit Router?
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activerain: Cereal Re-Bloggers: change the title - 01/25/12 10:57 AM
You know the Cereal Re-Bloggers on ActiveRain? You know Fruit Loops, CoCo Puffs, Wheaties, Sugar Pops, Fruity Pebbles, "Soggy Cereals Major Flake with Sparkles" and "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs?" Members who use the Re-Blog feature on content that makes you scratch your head....
Why? Why? Why? Re-Blog that?
You post content for the general public. It's got local street names in it. The post refers to local businesses. Your geographic area is in the title... theirs is NOT. You post content in a consumer channel on ActiveRain and a Cereal Re-Blogger from a couple hundred or even thousands of miles … (16 comments)
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activerain: Real Name Policy - What's the point - 01/16/12 09:26 AM
Google+ has a real name policy.
Does Facebook have a real name policy? I believe Facebook has a policy of one profile per person, don't they? Rather than creating a business profile and a personal profile you are supposed to have a business page? I know people who have more than one Facebook profile. One for business, one for personal. I am not sure whether they have a real name policy.
Twitter does not have a real name policy.
The Internet does not have a real name policy. Fake Steve Jobs was entertaining. Perhaps it was creepy to Steve Jobs. … (43 comments)
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activerain: December 2011: ActiveRain Software Platform Upgrade - 12/21/11 03:52 PM
Hooray. Thank YOU ActiveRain and Merry Christmas.
Does this mean testers are done? I am on:
http://beta.activerain.com/action/blogs_admin/reblogging_new/2659099 now.
I turned in two things... with screen shots... I can not remember what they were. The most devastating thing was a blog post I had started b4 using the beta and then updated on the beta version, I could see the orginal unfinished version on my laptop so I deleted it. That deleted the published version. There were no screen shots to turn in. Not much to do but put the post together again. I had the photos saved. Most of the post … (4 comments)
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activerain: Reading useless blog posts: Move along... - 12/06/11 08:29 AM
When you find yourself reading "useless blog posts" move along and read something else.
Usefull? Useless you decide as the reader, just like anyone else reading blog posts.
If the content you are reading does not satisfy, move along and read something else. There is plenty to read. There is a lot to read on ActiveRain outside ActiveRain..... Don't like reading Localism posts? Don't. It is not going to bother the writer. The writer is not talking about ice cream, neighborhoods or the local economy for your benefit. They are talking to the locals. Or people looking to become locals, … (68 comments)
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activerain: Master of YOUR Domain: ActiveRain Outside Blogs - 11/19/11 01:58 AM
Master YOUR Domain Is YOUR ActiveRain Outside Blog's domain branding your business?
When you set up your ActiveRain Outside blog did you finish the process? Did you add a unique domain that brands your business? Do you promote your content with that domain or do you use the ActiveRain link with your id as a subdomain?
Your ActiveRain Outside Blog's Domain brands your business
Recently I tweeted a great post from a stager on ActiveRain. I used the outside blog url (the "Originally posted at" url at the bottom of the post) but her outside blog is NOT going to … (14 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain showing up in Google - Amazing Information!!! - 11/16/11 09:17 AM
Gita Bantwal a Bucks County. Pennsylvannia real estate agent wrote a post titled:
"Consumers do not search us by looking up the terms ' featured posts' or 'AR points'. Here is some amazing information I just discovered."
Gita's post is Members Only so other than the title I can not tell you what she said, or I'd have to kill you. If you are a member of ActiveRain you can read what Gita discovered.
Gita Bantal did an experiment. I carried on that experiment.
I believe I can tell you what I commented on Gita's post: here's the link if … (47 comments)
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activerain: email spam from ActiveRain - 10/12/11 03:05 PM
Really?
I unsubscribed from the ActiveRain Daily Drop twice...
I hope this email spam is unrelated to the ActiveRain Daily Dump. Just a one time spam email to encourage comments. That word newsletter makes me nervous....
ActiveRain newsletter@activerain.com via mail95.us2.rsgsv.net to maureen
All three links in the email are to one post on ActiveRain, a "step-by-step how to comment"
Really? Members need help with commenting?
Traffic down? I don't think spamming members is the answer...
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activerain: Step away from my points... - 08/28/11 12:23 PM
ActiveRain points...
I think we should start spending our ActiveRain points. I am not sure what we would buy with ActiveRain points... but I've wanted to spend my Active Rain points since day one.
Of course Kristal told me I could buy shoes with ActiveRain points.
Niki, Bob Stewart, Kerrie, etc. here's an invite to Empire Ave.
Empire Avenue's got points, you can spend the points. The points are called Eaves.
You earn Eaves.
You spend Eaves.
You earn more Eaves.
Empire Avenue is the Social Media Stock Market. I earn Eaves when I post local content on ActiveRain (my … (18 comments)
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activerain: SHOULD ActiveRain delete UN "REAL" Professionals? - 08/03/11 03:41 PM
SHOULD ActiveRain delete members? those UN REAL members?
How soon we forget. Should ActiveRain delete old accounts? Inactive members? How is Larry Bettag's "SHOULD Only REAL Professionals Participate with Active Rain?" proposal different than 2010? How did that work out for ActiveRain?
Bob Stewart's 2010 post:
Grandfathered RainMaker Accounts: Rewarding Members Who Continue to Participate
"Starting June 24th, grandfathered RainMakers who have not posted a public blog post in the previous 90 days will lose their grandfathered RainMaker status. You will be notified when your account has gone 60 days without a blog post. This will give you 30 days … (0 comments)
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activerain: Will Google+ kill Posterous? - 07/27/11 11:01 AM
Will Google+ kill Posterous?
Maybe I ought to say will "Google+ replace Posterous?"
"Kill" sounds so violent.
Posterous says:
"Posterous is the easiest publishing platform around. If you can email, you can manage a website and share it with small groups or the world."
Posterous is pretty darn easy. If I remember Posterous. I forgot Posterous for weeks at a time. I mean I forget to send content to Posterous. This morning (July 27, 2011) my Posterous subscriptions was one post from Susie Blackmon. It's OK. Susie is on Google+ so I got my morning fix of horsing … (5 comments)
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activerain: Just Say NO to Duplicate Titles ~or ~ Stop Duplicate Titles! XXVII - 07/23/11 04:51 PM
Just in case you did NOT see this.
Just say no to duplicate titles. Aren't you glad that ActiveRain looked into this?
I know some of my market reports have the same title. Sometimes I say the month or that sales, inventory, prices are up or down in the title. I will try to be more aware.
In the original post there is discussion of whether to change the title on Re-Blogs. I often do. I did this time too. Should this be showing up in the search engines though? This is not original content. Niki's post is. This is the … (0 comments)
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activerain: Will Google+ replace ActiveRain? - 07/21/11 06:36 AM
You've been hearing a lot about what Google+ will replace
Facebook or Google+
Twitter or Google+
I saw this on Google+ yesterday.
Will Google+ replace ActiveRain?
Erik is an AR member, a vendor. Not very active....
I reshared the question on Google+ and got a couple of comments from Fred Carver and Wayne Harriman.
My comment was "probably not." What do you think? Is it the main blogging platform? Aren't there lots of people now who blogged on AR who are on their own blog on WP.org or somewhere else now...
My point is, is ActiveRain bigger than all the individual … (91 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain Planned Maintenance: Monday, June 20th, 9-11pm PST - 06/18/11 07:30 PM
Don't forget Monday night ActiveRain will be completely unavailable. It will be so late for us ... midnight to two AM ActiveRain will be down, Eastern time.
Database update time!
Via ActiveRain: Keeping You In The Loop! (ActiveRain Corp.):
Listen up, guys! This is an important announcement and I need your full attention! All eyes and ears on me, please!
We will be doing a database update on Monday, June 20th, from 9-11pm PST. ActiveRain will be completely unavailable to you during that time. Our team needs to take the site down for two hours in order to feed the … (4 comments)
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activerain: ActiveRain Real Estate Questions - 06/02/11 08:12 AM
Have you answered consumer's real estate questions on ActiveRain? Trulia? Zillow?
I am Re-Blogging Niki's post. I remember when the Questions & Answers section (link in Niki's post) was introduced. I believe I have probably answered less than one half dozen questions and two of those I answered this morning AFTER reading Niki's post a couple of times.
Only 11 questions have been asked in Ohio since January 1, 2011, on ActiveRain. I thought the Questions & Answers section was gone... or buried. The ActiveRain Questions & Answers show up well in Google for queries like "Real Estate Questions" … (16 comments)
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activerain: Not able to post to ActiveRain? Here's a solution - 05/26/11 10:59 AM
Not able to post to ActiveRain this morning? Are you getting the "That wasn't meant to happen..." message?
Not able to post to ActiveRain - here's the solution thanks to Bill Spear:
Found on Facebook. A "Workaround" of course.... The solution thanks to Bill Spear:
"Go to one of your Drafts. You can access those, change to today's topic and post."
Perhaps this "Not able to post to ActiveRain" does not affect all of us. Can you post? Or do you see the world has gone pear shaped?
I posted about Delaware County Schools this morning thanks to Bill … (49 comments)
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activerain: Vaccuuming vs. Purging Content - 05/19/11 06:10 AM
Vaccuuming vs. Un-Grandfathering or Purging Content
Niki Parekh (ActiveRain's relatively new CEO's) post last Friday mentioned vacuuming the database...
ActiveRain Technology Update May 13
A member commented:
"Not sure if vacuuming the database includes deleting member accounts that have not posted or logged on for months and/or years, but it would be a good starting point to gain a more accurate count of current members and regain valuable server space that is housing unnecessary information and costing money"
Un- Grandfathering and Purging Member's Content "to regain valuable server space"
Were you here last summer?
How do you … (30 comments)
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