active rain: Posterous Test... Completed... - 11/29/09 11:04 PM
I wrote a couple of posts about Posterous in the last week or so...
Get Posterous-ized...
The Great Posterous Experiment...
If you aren't familiar with Posterous, they might be a good place to start.
As mentioned in "The Great Posterous Experiment", I devoted the weekend to using Posterous while on a … (3 comments)
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active rain: Get Posterous-ized... - 11/25/09 09:09 PM
Let's get the first part out of the way... It is pronounced pa-stir-us... like in preposterous... which would be "life before Posterous."
Posterous is a blogging site... and if you are playing in social media, you really need to get onto it if you aren't already. In fact, I will be … (11 comments)
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active rain: 'Cuz Brad and Bobby SAID SO... - 11/20/09 07:41 PM
A while back, Brad and/or Bobby Carroll made a VERY valid point about online identity... specifically, having a cohesive design theme throughout your sites.
I've crunched this over for a few months... looking at a few options... and finally started down the path of making several of my sites more complimentary … (8 comments)
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active rain: And Now For Something Completely Different... and Flat - 11/12/09 02:40 PM
Do you know who “ Flat Stanley” is? Ours is actually a “Flat Garrett“, but the idea is the same…
He is traveling the world, in an envelope. We set up a website at FlatGarrett.info to chronicle the visits Flat Garrett makes between now and Spring Break.
Right now, Flat Garrett is … (10 comments)
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active rain: Lane's Active Rain Ambassador Series - Part V... Some Random Musings... - 10/21/09 01:17 PM
No, the series isn't wrapping up... But there are a few things that I have wanted to say that were too short for their own post, but didn't fit neatly in other posts...
Community...
Active Rain is a social network, at least as much as FaceBook, and certainly more that … (5 comments)
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active rain: Lane's Active Rain Ambassador Series - Part IV... Beyond the Blog - 10/19/09 10:43 PM
You've set up your Active Rain account (hopefully you are a RainMaker). You have tuned your profile to be cooler than than 803.6% of the other ones here. You have lurked and learned around the network. And then you wrote (and hopefully published) a few blog posts.
What more could there … (4 comments)
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active rain: Lane's Active Rain Ambassador Series - Part III... Ready to Blog, Now what? - 10/18/09 11:25 PM
OK, so you've joined Active Rain, tweaked your profile (Part I), started to do a little lurking (Part II)... now you are ready to hit the ground and run.
Step 1...
Let go of perfection. Many of us want every post to be perfect. Let go... It isn't going to happen. … (10 comments)
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active rain: Lane's Active Rain Ambassador Series - Part II... Where to Start? - 10/18/09 12:28 AM
For someone diving into Active Rain to really get the most out of it, it can be a pretty daunting task. There are more than 162,000 members and there are literally thousands of blogs posted every day. There are industry leaders, incredible performers and hugely interesting people posting up information all … (7 comments)
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active rain: Lane's Active Rain Ambassador Series - Part I... Your Profile - 10/16/09 11:55 AM
One of the very first things a new member to Active Rain should do is "tune their profile". In order to wring the most performance out of it, we have to make sure it is optimized...
Here are a few things we are optimizing for:
Keyword rich, location and niche specific … (43 comments)
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active rain: rebarcamp... No? Yes? What is it going to be? - 10/05/09 09:48 PM
It was a lock... I was going to the Lynchburg rebarcamp later this week. All of the arrangements had been made, clearances had been obtained from the local authorities (that would be my wife and kids). I was going to ride up with another local agent and then get dropped off … (14 comments)
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active rain: How often do you unplug? - 10/04/09 11:15 PM
My answer would be almost never... and constantly.
A couple of times per year I try to break away from the machines and enjoy a little real off-time. Not much... just a few days here and there. Heck, I've been known to work through issues while waiting my turn on the … (13 comments)
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active rain: Starting a Blog? Need something to write about? - 09/20/09 10:46 PM
Start a series...
I think that having a series is one of the greates things you can do in order to spur your creative blogging juices... as well as establish a regular blogging schedule.
New blogs, as well as blogs that have been around for a while, need fresh content... … (16 comments)
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active rain: 8 Tools for the Cool... Or at least Web Savvy Real Estate Agents #8 - 08/28/09 11:16 PM
FaceBook...
I just had to get that out of the way quickly... We all knew it had to be on the list. There are 300,000,000 people there, and some of them might actually be looking for a real estate agent.
But PLEASE, don't just wade in and start telling everyone that … (16 comments)
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active rain: Were you there? Active Rain/Blogging/Social Networking workshop... Lilburn - 08/28/09 12:14 PM
I mentioned it last week...
Garner Creek at Parkview hosted a workshop on Blogging, ActiveRain and Social Networking on Thursday, August 27th. During the workshop, the main questions we covered were:
Why blog?
Why Active Rain should be your platform?
How to incorporate blogging and ActiveRain into a comprehensive social Media … (1 comments)
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active rain: In Atlanta? Interested in Active Rain and Blogging? Take a look... - 08/20/09 02:05 PM
I just got the confirmation from Corey at Garner Creek at Parkview. We are going to be presenting a seminar and discussion about Active Rain, blogging and Social Networking at GarnerCreek at Parkview in Lilburn on Thursday, August 27th.
The program will start at 11:00am, and lunch will follow at Noon. … (10 comments)
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active rain: Are you going to Showcase (Atlanta)? - 08/18/09 11:16 PM
I'll be there... I'm probably going to hit it early and visit with a few friends that are also vendors. I want to check out all of the latest cool stuff... and I'm curious as to who may show up on Social Networking and blogging panels in the Technology Theater.
There … (6 comments)
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active rain: 8 Tools #3A "Sweet Embeddable You"... before - 08/17/09 11:34 PM
Ok, so if you have been following along, you have seen that you really need both a self-hosted WordPress blog and an Active|Rain RainMaker blog.
You say, "OK there Skippy, now what?"
Well bunky, you need content... GREAT, compelling, addictive content. And you need to present it in a great, compelling … (6 comments)
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active rain: 8 Tools #3B "Sweet Embeddable You"... after - 08/17/09 11:26 PM
So, just a moment ago I posted the other half of this blog. I worked VERY hard to make it visually unappealing and kind of boring. I did that on purpose. For a purpose.
You see, there are SO many ways to add rich media to your WordPress and Active|Rain posts.
… (9 comments)
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active rain: 8 Tools the Modern Real Estate Agent HAS to Have... #1 - 08/14/09 09:27 PM
OK, these are presented in any specific order... but over the next couple of weeks, I will be posting up useful tools for real estate agents to utilize in a Web 2.0 world. There are so many tools, sites and technologies... and every day there are new ones entering our sights.
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active rain: A Little Blogging VaCay... - 08/07/09 10:21 PM
That is right... I took a vacation from blogging. I haven't missed more than a handful of days in two years on my blog at LaneBailey.com. I have pre-written posts, and even post-dated a couple by a few hours.
But the last post I put up on that blog was Sunday. … (8 comments)
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