Paul Chaney's (pchaney) Blog

We got feedback from several of you regarding dates and times for the live internet broadcast Richard and I want to do with Active Rainers. We've decided on Thursday, April 5th, at 12:00 noon eastern. (That's 11 central, 10 mountain, and 9 pacific! :->)Here's the number to call-in to be on the sh...

Several weeks ago Jonathan Washburn had asked me to serve as a judge in the upcoming Project Blogger contest. Of course, I said I'd be more than happy to. Well, frankly, I let the whole thing slip my mind until I was reviewing some emails yesterday in a vain attempt to clear out my inbox. (Oh, ho...

One of my long-time blogger friends, Jim Turner, runs One-by-One Media, a blogger recruiting agency for companies needing bloggers. Jim is looking for a blogger to write about commercial real estate. In his own words..."The blog will be about Commercial Real Estate only and will be a aggregator f...

I'm sure none of the Active Rain members do this, but I'm constantly confronting newbie bloggers with a simple admonition: DO NOT COPY AND PASTE FROM MICROSOFT WORD!!!Here's the thing. Blogs are built using something called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS for short). This file is the "master control"...

UPDATE: The book is now available for pre-order at Amazon. It's scheduled release date is Sept. 24, but I have a sneaking suspicion it will be available before then.  I'm a huge fan of For Dummies books. Not only do I qualify (though sometimes I think "idiot," "moron," or "imbecile" are more appr...

Richard and I have been thinking of ways to repay the AR community for all its support of our book, Realty Blogging. We've decided one way to do that is by hosting a live call-in internet radio show within the next couple of weeks using Blog Talk Radio. This program will be for Active Rainers onl...

To borrow a quote from Garrison Keillor, it "hasn't been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon." I've been on the road most of this month traveling from on real estate convention to another. Since the first of March, I attended the Realty Executives convention where our company had an exhibit booth and wh...

I'm sure by now you've heard of the debacle regarding Prudential essentially kicking Trulia and Zillow out of the recent convention tradeshow. If not, here's a link to some background information from the Blogging Systems blog. I'd like to get your reaction to this matter, especially those of you...

Our company, Blogging Systems, attends a great many real estate conferences, conventions, etc. Seems I'm on the road a couple of times per month. We sponsor many such events, Richard speaks on panels, and we normally exhibit in tradeshows associated with the event.I talk until I'm blue in the fac...

I don't how many Active Rainers are members of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, but I wanted to make mention of the fact that we are in Palm Springs at the annual conference. If you happen to be here as well, please drop by our booth, #25, and let's chat about blogging. Oh, by "we," I ...