Maureen  - Great Poke, er...uh  I mean Post!  It was great to meet you in person Yesterday - but, did you follow me to find me? :)  Still, I find it unusual to meet digital friends in person, but thats a sign of the times. 

I think ill give Twitter a try, with a perminent "working on laptop" entry.   (I just got my 3rd battery for it in a year). 

Maureen - I have had similar thoughts and experiences. Just joined Twitter a few months ago, and I also heard Marc at our quarterly membership CRS meeting in July when he recommended Twitter among other things. It was an illuminating talk. I remain unconvinced but curious.

Jeff

I don't get Twitter as I don't care to have people know what I'm always doing - unless I just left it as Chris said - "I'm working on my laptop".

I do like LinkIn and have asked a number of former co-workers to join. Some have but not all "get it".

I just joined Twitter, and I'm trying to figure out exactly what it could possibly do for me.  So far it seems like an odd way to waste time.  

Chris: Once someone said that you were there it was all I could do to keep from rushing the stage.  Did Eric Eckert come up to meet you?  Eric was siting next to me.  You were using the tour and floor plan online for 'Maggie Huff and Eric Eckerts' Floor Plan Online  in your presentation.  Eric has been a big supporter of your company.  I can't tell you how many sales meetings he forces us to see the tour of one of his listings.  He showed us at least one with the floor plan.  Eric and I were planning on coming up to meet you as soon as the presentation was done but when I headed out the door he was still socializing 

On an Active Rain entry that Jeff Dowler has about meeting people in person  I bragged about meeting you yesterday.  I bragged about meeting you and the number one real estate agent on ActiveRain in Fairfield County (south east of town) who is a Real Living HER agent, Branden Meyer.

Jeff: When Harley Rouda (CEO of Real Living now but at the time President of HER REALTORS® Inc. I believe) first said we'd be using the interent for real estate I thought he was dreaming... so if he had Marc Davison come to Columbus to say"Twitter" I will "Twitter" a bit and try not to get anxious when the emails about follwers arrive.

Elaine: I have been very bad about Linked In.  When I got John Novak to join Active Rain he got me to do Linked In.  I doubt I have a profile there... I don't look for people to link to, but Tina (Green Buckeye) said I ought to do it.  Her background is IT, I am not sure that is what she is doing now.  I got for months at a stretch not visiting Linked In.  Facebook I hear from someone most days in some way.  Again I doubt I ever did a profile.   

thanks for the comments

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Lane only time will tell.  Updating Twitter takes no time.  I am following two ActiveRainers... no time there at all to speak of  not that Brian and Art aren't dynamic Twitterers. 

Maybe I will look at how the Jeff Turner's and others use it. 

Would it be spammy to say you just posted a blog on ActiveRain via Twitter?  To say you are posting your Real Estate Shows tours of your listings to YouTube? I don't know...

I am undecided about it yet. My life is pretty boring to have people following me around.

Missy is blogging,

Missy is grocery shopping, no I don't do that anymore. Husband goes to Sams, and kids to Busches.

Missy is sleeping.

Missy is showing houses or taking a listings.

Whoppee, as I said boring.

I avoid these things like the plague.  Yes, I am paranoid.  I had spyware on my computer a few years ago and it caused me a lot of trouble to clean up.  No more. 

• Don't load strange programs on your computer.
• Don't eat food you don't understand.
• Don't let bullets enter your body.

Now you should be fine.

Missy would you use Twitter with your team to let each other know what's going on?  Would you Twitter, "I'm doing an Open House at 4919 Elmview St"? 

Jason Calacanis (tech guy, entrepenuer, blogger) says on his blog he'd pay money for Twitter Pro (I don't think there is a Twitter Pro...or any upgraded service just if you could upgrade Twitter he'd pay money for it. 

Thanks Lenn: I think it is all on the web, nothing loaded on a computer.  The paraoia is just people following me. 

•  Don't eat food you don't understand

Oh oh with brie the outer covering is wax?  Mold? Edible? Inedible?  

Brie Wax? IMO Edible, but not enjoyable.  Much like Restraunt Chain Mexican Food...

Maureen, it really was cool to meet you - so cool infact, that I also blogged about you in Mine! How funny you did the same! Eric did come up and talk to me, and was like you said...gushing.  What a great guy.  Seems like the whole HER  group responded well, but its hard being the last act of the day!

I was just there Chris commenting. 

Carol Smith from Toledo mentioned brie in her comment but I resisted the urge to ask the edlble? Inedible? Wax? Mold? thing although it certainly crossed my mind. Faux pas to hijack a perfectly good post about a wonderful product like yours to satisfy my idle curiousity.

I am glad you got to meet Eric.  He is one of a kind.

Eric is a member here but has NEVER blogged on ActiveRain. I think he ought to do a post about how they've used the Floor Plan Online on more than one of their listings and how great it is and how it got their listings sold... I know they used it on a Worthington Hills listing and an Old Worthington listing, two neighborhoods where a Google link to Localism post for him would be a good thing but who asked me....  

Restaurant chain Mexican... I confess.  I do like Baja Fresh, Qadoba and Don Pablos.... I like non chain Mexican food though too... 

Last on up on the presentation can be tough but it seemed like people stuck around more than usual.  Or maybe I so enthralled I was not paying attention.  For as long an event as it was, the parking lots were still pretty darn full when I left.  I think this was the 3rd company meeting this year... and to me it had the most substance,

Okay, I'm so confused... I finally figured out Facebook - I think.  Twitter?  What is that?  I feel like twittering right now.  NOT... too many sites to follow and yes, I agree with you Maureen - way too much personal info out there.  Paranoia?  Maybe not.  Maybe, it's just being aware.

Maureen, Thanks for the morning smiles. I enjoyed reading this.

I have enough of a time keeping  up with my AR profile and blog, let alone all of these other social networks.  I don't twitter, and I am kind of confused on it, however I like that you are going to use that line next time someone asks you about it.  ((-:

I am LINKEDIN however I haven't done much on my profile there either.  All of this gets to be a bit much, does it not ?  Sometimes I think the old days of gathering at someone's house for a day of listening to fiddle music  and dancing is something we should be aspiring to return to.

Jo 

Mexican (fast) food - one large chain comes to mind not on your "like" list.

I'm getting a twitter account now.  Just took a screen shot from the Twitter log in page, all msgs from the last few seconds - check out the variety of comments - and whats up with Frak!?!

Irina you are ahead of me on Facebook then.  I may not be tranparent enough for Twitter but I added it to my OLD, ugly website yesterday.  I added it here on this entry.    

Jo-Anne I think I join but really don't want to spend time on all of them so I am waiting to see what fails. In fact I'd really like about 1/2 of it to fail so I could focus in on what could be meaningful.  I don't want 'all my eggs in one basket'  but I don't want to miss out either.

If someone could give me a list of what's most important I'd appreciate it.  I am thinking:

1. My own blog

2. ActiveRain

3. Linked In

Facebook seems to have captured more people's interest though than Linked In though or it is hot lately.  I think Davison mentioned Link In at our company meeting, I think Alex (our marketing guru) mentioned Linked In. I think my brain focused on Twitter because I and many people "don't get it."  

Do you know if you  say API like "A-P-I" or is it "appie?"  

thanks for your comments

Chris: Chipotle?  Taco Bell?  I kinda like both just because they are salty, kinda sorta Mexican food.  Actually I have only been to Chipotle about 4 times and only liked it the last time I want there.  Someone but I can not remember who recently told me the burrito they like is 900 + calories, that they had just discovered this, So I am glad I never became addicted.

What is up with Frak? As Figolo says : Hola Mundo

You know I am going to be following you Chris.  If I can figure out how to.  I think I have just followed people who are following me, so we must just be going in circles.

Going in circles?  lol!  Thats great.  I feel the same way.  So now, my Twitter account is embedded in my space, that is tied to active rain that I blog about twitter...Yet on twitter I just said:

Circles?  Or an ever downward spiral?

I think my first entry was similar? Did you plagiarize me? I wonder if there's a cut and paste problem on Twitter...

I prefer to think of it as circles as Real Living uses them.  I can't really remember 100% what circle is about but I do remember that they ARE NOT polka dots.

huh, I guess so.

Looks like we came full circle on this one.

Im going to follow you now....like I just did....oh brother.

I just got an email that someone I know answered my Facebook question. I have not asked a Facebook question.... I don't believe I have  answered Facebook questions because that adds on a whole new level from what I have seen.  More emails.  I just delete them as they come in. 

But on my Facebook profile it says I have asked two questions:   

Best place you have ever visited?

(1 answer)

Ask more friends    Edit    Show on profile   

Asked on July 26, 2007

Does anyone know legal drinking age in Poland?

(0 answers)

Ask more friends    Edit    Show on profile   

Asked on July 26, 2007

Yeah that sounds like a question I would care lots about.  At first I thought it was on my birthday but I knew I could legally drink in Poland, many years ago.  It is a month after my birthday. I think the questions have something to do with a slideshow but neither is my question.  Do I want to use the Slideshow again if somehow inane questions are attributed to me on Facebook?    

Oh well  I am going to Twitter to set up to follow Chris and I will allow the Columbusite whom I still am not sure who he is follow me and I am going to follow him so I can figure out who he is.

I went to follow the guy from Columbus and he was following Scobleizer (Robert Scoble) so I thought ... that might be cool... just got an email:

Scobleizer is now following you on Twitter!

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I am following FPO too.  I looked at an email that said FPO is now following you on Twitter and thought huh?  Isn't an FPO something for mail for military over seas?  I don't know if it stands for foreign post office but that is what I always assumed.

FPO is also Floor Plans Online

Hi Maureen - It's taken me soooo long to get comfortable with blogging that it seems way too soon to twitter :)

But now it's probably going to be all the rage, and I'll have to end up trying it.

I don't get Twitter, I hope it does not become all the rage.  Have you done Facebook?  MySpace? Linked In?

I had not seen this post the other p.m. when we discussed this (on another post).

After some nudging, ;)  I spent some down time yesterday signing into Facebook and Twitter both. I also have an unused LinkedIn account.

Facebook is a mystery to me. What do you do? I looked at a Dayton group and it's college kids and high school prom photos. WooHoo? Network with the cool kids? (I never got youth-worship. I'm the only mom who still expects to be called "Mrs." by my kid's friends. Harsh, ain't it?).

Twitter was kind of cool because there were things like the LAFD, who had listed "Auto accident with trapped passenger at Hollywood and Vine" or some such thing. So that would be an easy way for a group to work. I can get on board with Twitter, Facebook not so much. Perhpas it depends on your city. Facebook seems a bit more personally intrusive, and while I am not paraniod, I am protective of my privacy.

BUT. It's all more work at the computer, and away from P2P, which is sooo much more fun and productive for me. At least right now. My .02

"pomegranate" Persephone prepares at eat 6 seeds.

Mrs. Lussier I mean Teri there are lots of ActiveRainers on Facebook, Ines is there, Kevin is there, they'll send you a notice to become their friend on FaceBook soon... Or I will, I think it will be my first.  I accept, I just have not gone  looking for friends yet.  I am not active on FaceBook but I do when someone asks me to be a "Friend" respond. 

You will also be found by "Friends" from Exit at some point I am sure.

There is some way to put your Twitter on your Facebook too... I read it somewhere... but have no clue.

>there are lots of ActiveRainers on Facebook

Another reason to stay away. :) That's my sarcasam speaking, but, there is some truth. I'm here on AR, if I go to Facebook to be friends with the same people, again I must ask, What's the point? Is it the same as meeting your friends at a different restuarant?

I would think I would enjoy different social networks to meet different peeps, not just hang wit da same peeps all over the internet, or am I missing the point?

My Space was creepy to me, Facebook is creepy too.  Twitter is more fun and I think more useful.

This does make me feel old. :( 

MySpace is creepy to me.  Facebook is somewhat less creepy to me, hanging out with the same peeps on all the different networks escapes me yet when someone sends me a note asking to be friends I think it is unfriendly to not say yes.  Twitter is creepy to me... it's that follower thing.

What's the Countrywide guys name here on AR?  He's made a lot of connections via MySpace.com, lots of the lenders have.

Brian Brady swears by MySpace and AR- he's a big believer in the power of social networks for lenders, but isn't so convinced it's worth the time for RE agents. P2P is still the best way, says he. It's more fun, says me.

In thinking about the multiple account issues, I realized I also have a friendster account www.friendster.com (Im not recomending it) but it is yet another social netowrking account - on the back burner when Active Rain opened its E-Doors. 

Below is where you enter your text on twitter, and the tracking / following info to the right.

I have thought of Friendster a couple of times recently and wondered if it is still around.  Wasn't it before MySpace? Never was a member.

The "friends" on Facebook make me think of Friendster.

I joined Facebook about a week or so ago so my son's girlfriend could walk me through posting photos so I could try to help ARDELL with her photos.  Now all my son's ex-girlfriends and schoold buddies haved poked me!  (doens't that sound kind of sick, loll).  Now the really cool part, I got a listing today from the parents of one of his friends who I had not met before.  Crap, it does work and now I have one more thing to try keep up with!

That does sound sick but congratulations on the listing.

Even if you care not to have a presence on social media sites, such as twitter, other agents will, and will get money out of it over the course of establishing a relationship. Sales professionals are making money being present on social media sites. Can we afford to turn our face the other direction just because new technology ovdrwhelms us and we feel like we are being followed. Heck, as real estate agents we should want to be followed. After all, we are in the prospect and sales business.

huh?

Yeah Kenneth, I am such a Luddite when it comes to using web 2.0, social networking.   Totally backward.   

Should I check with you if what I feel is OK to express? Hopefully the need to lecture about technolgy is out of your system, now. Did you mean to be offensive?

Welcome to ActiveRain.  

>as real estate agents we should want to be followed

Spoken like a man.

There are women here who would disagree with that- who have been followed through cyberspace. It's not fun, it's not something to take lightly. If you have/had a wife or daughter who was being "followed" by someone they didn't know, would it alarm you? Disturb you? Give you the slightest pause?

As Joe Jackson sings "It's Different for Girls".

Thanks Teri.  I did not think I knew that song but I recognized  'It's Different for Girls' when I watched the video.  The lyrics in my brain were from 'Annie Get Your Gun', 'Anything you can do I can do better'  not as friendly a version though.  ;- )

I've told you this Y vs X blogging issue has been on my mind a lot lately. I'm becoming more disturbed by it, but can't quite put my finger on the one thing I'm bothered by...

...It is different for girls. But it's very likely it's just me, not all girls feel it. I do need to post about this.

my graphic says, "mate" . No joking!  :D

Love Anything you can do... I thought the recent Gap "boyfriend jeans" commercial was charming.

I assumed when I saw your second to last comment here yesterday that it WAS on that entry.  Have you read the Sellsius entry about the 2006 Top 10 Women Real Esate Bloggers? The stuff in it about women blogging...not about the 10 but about women getting into blogging and Blogher is good.  Have you been to the Blogher? site?  Blogging is different for women. 

Real estate blogging is one field where there are lots of women blogging. 

I forgot all about the Gap commercial, but I loved it.

Blogher- yes I've been there, and was planning to use that in my post. Which I must get to before someone else picks up this thread and beats me to the punch and does a knock out job.  ;)

shhhh keep it quiet and you can be first. Or if someone else writes about it you can be best. 

I thought about the turn in this post yesterday listening to 'Prarie Home Companion'  in the car.  I did not get to hear the whole thing.  Guy Noir was selling term papers.  He used the term hegemony in one.  Then he went on a date with a woman who taught "Womens Studies" and they had a conversation where they had no idea what the other was saying even though he sprinkled in words like hegemony.  I did not get to hear much of it unfortunatley.

In an effort to increase your level of paranoia, I've decided to follow you on Twitter.  I'll be watching....

;)

What's you @ anme on Twitter Andrew?

Hi Maureen,  I think I get Twitter as a social place.  It's about the conversation.  BUT, I do not 'get' Facebook and LinkedIn.  I don't understand the groups on a lot of these sites, the purpose of them. 

I read the profile of people that ask to follow me, if they are only following young women, I block them.  If they are in the social network, technology or real estate industry I follow them back.  I also send a lot of my updates through flickr or somewhere else and Twitterfeed which only updates once every couple of hours.  So, typically when it says I'm somewhere it really means I 'was' somewhere.  :)  That makes me feel better about followers..

I was wondering yesterday where you were. Had not seen you on Twitter and was hoping all is well.  Twitter seems to be losing it's luster.  Doesn't seem as though as many people are on there lately.

I Twitter every now and then; whenever I think of it.

There's still a bunch of this web 2.0 stuff I don't get either.

Maybe my take on it is a bit different. I had a computer before computers were cool (ya, I was country when country wasn't cool either) I hated WINDOWS when it hit the scene - why in the world would anyone want to use a picture to do what I could just type in? I was a DOS girl all the way.

Over the years I guess I've decided to go with the flow. If we are leading something here, then it is all good. If it falls apart and web 2.0 never really catches on - then not sure what we have lost. However, I think we see the change even in what google feels in relevant - ie, seems to favor the blog type 2.0 format more than static webpages for current, up to date content.

I've had myspace since it hit - believe it or not it was actually huge among genealogists when it came out, which is why I got in. All my family is there and I have a band page as well.

Facebook, Linkedin I 've just started. Not sure I get it totally. Mike F. and i were chatting about "build it and they will come"

Twitter - just started as well. Seemingly fun. Have found some great links posted by Teri L, The Bawlguy and many others. Lots to learn from different perspectives. Referrals, maybe down the road. A network of people all in the same industry - priceless in my book.

My Outside Blog - well that is where my heart is, my main focus and the future for me as I see it. If people, down the road, will just even remember "oh ya, Lake Powell, ya there is that blogger lady up there" then I figure I've accomplished something.

I think we can pretty well all agree that the days of putting a sign on a property, a flier in the box and a small add in the local paper is just not enough to get it done. Where is it all going? No clue, but I am along for the ride!

Sometimes I hate it all equally.  Thanks for the comment Heather.  I was "online" a bit  before there was a www back in the days of dos.