blogs: Which is blog platform is the best? - 08/16/07 08:58 AM
I found something on the internet this morning that is going to rock the real estate blogoshere: * Upgrading to TypePad just got easier One of more popular feature requests lately has been a way to make it easy to upgrade from a Wordpress blog to TypePad. So yesterday afternoon we
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blogs: PhotoZou - Blog writers best friend - 06/07/07 01:47 PM
I use several of what I call companion programs with the St. Paul Real Estate Blog. My blog has a lot of photos on it because I want people to see St. Paul and a photo is worth a thousand words, besides if I use more pictures I can write less.
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blogs: Who are you? What is your blog about? - 04/18/07 07:40 AM
This morning I found a comment on my blog inviting me to look at another blog. I did and have to say it was beautifully designed and well written. Unfortunately it was missing some important components. I have no idea who the blogger is, what they do, or where they
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blogs: When it comes to Blogs I am just guessing - 04/03/07 09:36 PM
Let me tell you a secret. When it comes to figuring out what works with a blog and what does not, I am just guessing. I have ideas, I experiment and tweak and then measure results. Some times I take the advice of experts and other times I ignore them. Lets face
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blogs: Real Estate Technology - 03/08/07 06:06 AM
Real estate technology This may not seem like fun to some, but it is for me. I have a confession to make and hope that both of my readers will understand. I am kind of geeky, which is different than nerdy, I was never in the chess club in high school, nor
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blogs: St. Paul Realtor Fails Human test - 11/01/06 11:04 AM
Sorry, you failed the human test. Please enter what the graphic says. An actual active Rain error message The picture is an error message I get on my laptop that makes me chuckle, because in the scheme of things, the total failure of my laptop would just mean using another computer until it
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blogs: Blogging Blunders - 10/28/06 09:46 AM
There are many blogs and articles about how to blog. Often we can learn as much from blogging blunders as we can by reading the how to articles. Here is a list of what I call blogging blunders. Interestingly enough most of them come from looking at some of the real estate
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blogs: Squidoo Rocks! - 10/20/06 07:55 AM
I am having so much fun with my squidoo lens of active rain members other blog. I have added books on blogging, resources for bloggers, blogs about how to blog, live feeds from active rain and from technorati. This is my first lens and I was looking for an excuse to build
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blogs: It must be true, I read it on active rain - 10/19/06 06:21 AM
I spend some time each morning reading active rain posts. I am not an expert on technology or on blogs but do have more experience with both than the average business person. There are posts that contain advice and information that is just wrong. I read the comments and so many of them say
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blogs: Neighbor - Nieghborhood Information site - 10/19/06 06:04 AM
A new mash up site with neighborhood information. I tried it out last night. I found it to be easy to use and really kind of cool. It had neighborhood information including: LifestyleLifestyle PoliticsPolitics CrimeCrime Elem School RankElem School Rank Air QualityAir Quality Home PriceHome Price Apt RentApt Rent Cost of LivingCost
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blogs: Virtual Pumpkin Carving Contest - 10/16/06 07:42 AM
The St. Paul Real Estate Blog is hosting a virtual pumpkin carving contest. Participants will grab the pumpkin graphic from the blog and save it or paste it into the paint program in Windows, draw on it and send it back. The judges will be everyone who wants to vote. Complete details
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blogs: Podcasts & iPods - 10/15/06 10:42 AM
I went to a meeting last week where a woman explained podcasting but she kind of got it wrong so I thought I would clear up so confusion. My picture is of an Apple iPod which is an MP3 player. It plays audio files that are in a .mp3 format. These
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blogs: blog juice - Big news - 10/12/06 09:11 AM
Several of my favorite blogs all wrote about the same thing today: http://www.problogger.net/ http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061012-085316, http://www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com/who-wants-a-juice-fight/, http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/10/another_way_to_.html, http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-11.html#n44 I also got 85,787 results from technorati unsing the "blog juice tag" My results in Google were over 30,000 but most were not about the blog Juice calculator. I have not yet checked the real estate
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blogs: Best blogging resources - 10/10/06 08:17 PM
Active Rain members love to blog! I am going to share my favorite blogging and technical resources. I don't have time to read everything I see about blogging or about technology so I went through my RSS feedreader and sorted through the 100 links or so and picked out the best.
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blogs: I had to invent a new word - 09/18/06 06:25 AM
The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use. You would not think we need another word but we do. Blogfood(c) is a term that I just invented. Defined as any source of material or ideas that can be used to generate words
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blogs: Audio on your blog or web site - 08/29/06 07:00 AM
Putting a little audio on a blog can spice it up a bit. I have done a little of it on my real estate blog. I want to tell you about Odeo. http://www.odeo.com/ This sevice is free. Sign up, create an account. Talk to your computer and save the audio. It can be converted to
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