flickr: ActiveRain Brings The Press To My Door - Keep Blogging And They Will Find You - 12/01/09 01:55 AM

image courtesy of my Twitter account and @LaniAR's tweets
ActiveRain helps me get quoted.
Late last week I received a call from California.  I had no idea what was waiting for me on the other end of the phone.  It was Jenna V. Loceff.  She explained she was a reporter for the North Bay Business Journal and wanted to speak with me a bit about social media and real estate.  In researching her article, Jenna, had a few mentions of Flickr and while googling away, she came across my article, "A stern warning (or lack thereof) - Flickr is watching … (12 comments)

flickr: A stern warning (or lack thereof) - Flickr is watching you. - 08/04/09 12:27 AM

photo courtesy of Flickr and their TOS
Flickr won't tolerate you and your real estate ways.
Flickr, the widely popular photo sharing service, is not going to let you abuse them anymore.  By abuse, I mean use them for commercial purposes.  It states in their terms of service that you won't use the site for commercial purposes, but I never really caught onto that.  Until recently.  Seems my content violated their terms of service (it was commercial in nature, no doubt about that) and they closed my account with even a warning.  Because there was no warning, I spent time … (101 comments)

flickr: Customized Local Maps For Real Estate Websites - The How And Why Of Mueller Maps - 06/27/09 12:33 PM

image courtesy of GoogleMaps, Mueller Labs, and RErockstar.com
Introductions are in order.
First, let me introduce everyone that doesn't know him to Mike Mueller.  Mike is (as he says) a "Social Media.ist" - he'd probably never claim to be an "expert" or "guru," but I would definitely vote for him as one of the top social media people who get it, love it, live it, learn it and teach it.  Mike's been invaluable to me as I've been learning new things.  Always one to comment on a new idea I have or tell me how I could improve something I've … (52 comments)

flickr: Growth Leader - Interesing thing I noticed - 03/09/09 01:55 PM
A new listing brings the fun of googling the address.
I recently acquired a new listing at 815 Park Point, San Antonio TX 78253 and of course, with a new listing comes the occasional googling of the address to see how I'm doing in search rankings.  A day or two after I submitted the site to postlets.com, I hit Google and searched for "815 Park Point" - I came up with a few non-related sites (815 Park Avenue in New York was pulled up), but I did see my post here on ActiveRain at #2.  Unfortunately, I didn't take a snapshot … (21 comments)

flickr: Sometimes you search, but you happily find what you weren't looking for. - 11/29/08 09:14 AM

image courtesy of Bill Gracey
I started this with a purpose and instead found another.
I had thought about writing a post about my neighborhood, Quail Creek.  I thought I'd give some neighborhood facts and stats and just talk about how much I enjoy living here.  So, as I do with most posts I write, I thought about what photo I would use to lead the text.  I have some photos from my neighborhood on my laptop, but most of them are of my house and I didn't really want to show anyone how well I did at killing the … (2 comments)