social media: Conducting Your Own Social Media Orchestra - 10/19/09 02:45 PM
Communicating and marketing with your customers or potential customers used to be simple. You had a few options such as TV, radio, print, etc. The advent of the Internet and the recent growth of Social Media have in some respect made this process easier, but at the same time considerably more
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social media: Rules of Engagement - 10/06/09 02:52 PM
Just as it’s important to know the rules of the road and driving etiquette before driving on the open highways, so it is equally important that you have an understanding of the customs of Social Media. Although no hard legal rules exist, there are many good manners to follow if you
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social media: 200 Great Real Estate People to Follow on Twitter - 09/23/09 10:44 AM
Many agents often ask me at seminars where do they start with Twitter?
How do they make contact with great people on real estate?
Who can they learn from? Etc. etc.
Well to make it easy I have compiled a list of 200 Interesting and Influential People on Twitter. I have
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social media: Guess who the Top 10 Government Agencies on Twitter are? - 09/14/09 06:35 PM
SOCIAL MEDIA SNIPPET:
Guess who the Top 10 Government Agencies on Twitter are?
See answer here.
I only got 4 right? How did you do?
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social media: Listening In On The Conversation About You...Yes You!! - 09/10/09 06:59 PM
What do you mean you didn’t know that they were talking about you, your company, your brand and your service?
Of course they are, every day.
And not even behind you back. No, the discussion is in the open. Right there on the web, in the chat room, in the forum
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social media: 15 Suggestions on How to Conduct Yourself in Social Media Networks - 09/04/09 03:19 PM
Your profile, posts and comments on most Social Media networks will be available for many thousands, maybe even everyone to see – forever. It is therefore vitally important that you conduct yourself correctly.
Be yourself, be open, be transparent, share… and all those other good things. Just decide who you are,
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social media: Rainers Did You Grab Your Name on Facebook? Online Digital Name Grab Rush! - 06/16/09 01:18 PM
Most of the leading Social Media sites such as MySpace and Twitter have been offering customized and/or vanity URLs for their profiles for quite some time; the world's largest social-network, Facebook has not.
This all changed late Friday and early Saturday, June 12th and 13th, when Facebook allowed its 200
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social media: It’s Confirmed. It is the Next Big Thing! - 05/13/09 01:15 PM
Following the crash of the initial dotcom bubble in 2001 many people claimed to have created or coined the phrase Wed 2.0 as we in subsequent years the industry grappled with what would come next. By 2004 the term Web 2.0 was appearing everywhere and euphoria reined with this next phase
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social media: 2009 Trends Now Mobile - 03/25/09 01:37 PM
After literally hundreds and hundreds of requests to make the annual Swanepoel TRENDS Report available in an audio format this has finally happened with the new edition of the Report.
Just released this week is the first ever CD set of the 160-page 2009 Trends Report published last month. The
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social media: Tips, Tools, and Tweets - Twitter Twexplanations - 01/04/09 02:45 PM
Many comments I received indicated that they not sure how to use Twitter or to get the maximum benefit from Twitter. Glancing through ActiveRain I found many great post by Rainers that have offered up lots of wonderful information. I also a found a Twitter starters guide on the Web.
I
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social media: A Twittonary of Twitter Terms - 12/29/08 01:34 PM
In follow up to my post yesterday on the growth of Twitter I thought it would be interesting to share some Twitter terminology.
Similar to the Web, Blogging and Wiki, Twitter has also sparked a whole new legion of "new" words. Below a list of 70 interesting ones I have
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social media: Twitter Twaffic Explodes Confirming New Twend - 12/28/08 03:48 PM
During the holidays I received a few emails indicating surprise that I included micro blogging (Twitter) on my Top 10 Events impacting Real Estate in 2008 so I thought I would provide a little more information for those that are not that familiar with the concept of short text-based 140 character posts.
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social media: Interesting!! Another Online Community for Real Estate Launches - 11/25/08 01:15 PM
Last weekend, real estate agents and brokers got introduced to yet another social and business network to participate in when online real estate news service, Broker Agent Professional, launched Broker Agent Social. Within the first 100 hours after launch they exploded to 2,000 members - adding a new member every few
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