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Sometimes there is a perfectly simple explanation...the other point of view.

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Leading Edge www.GoldenResults.com 71785

Sometimes there is a perfectly simple explanation...the other point of view.

I noticed a blog post before it hit the Featured Posts this morning. 

That's because I am be bopping around on my new MAC and need to crank out a few blog posts this morning.

I am definitely guilty as charged.

I generally hit the first ten Featured Posts for my comments.

Not for points, not for ease, not for anything except for one really simple  and very, very valid reason.

On an iPAD, you can only comment on the first ten posts period.

If you click the pretty blue link at the bottom left, you go deeper into the Active Rain website where the iPAD does not work for comments.

Since I do my comments really early and really late while reading the news, books, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and anything else I can get my hands on, this READING time means iPAD time  which means I get to comment on the first ten posts or bust. 

And it's kind of comical because I can be anywhere which means lying down, upside down, or around town but one thing is a given...I am on the iPAD.

So it is the top ten Featured Posts or Bust. I am not going to go the Bust Route so Top Ten it is.

I cross my fingers and hope the first ten posts have links to other articles so I get some variety.

Excuses? Nuh uh. Look at the EReader Stats. They have surpassed book Stats.

Now, when I need to do my blogs, that is a different story. I hit the Social Blog and Subscriptions and Blog Roll and go here and there  and everywhere to put in my two cents.

Sometimes there is sense in what first appears to be nonsense.

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Mike Cooper, Broker VA,WV
Cornerstone Business Group Inc - Winchester, VA
Your Neighborhood Real Estate Sales Pro

Thanks for posting your iPAD experience, Cheryl. I'm debating which tablet I'd like to invest in, and that helps me a little more.  Have a great 4th.

Jul 03, 2011 01:34 AM
Cheryl Ritchie
RE/MAX Leading Edge www.GoldenResults.com - Huntingtown, MD
Southern Maryland 301-980-7566

Mike I wrote a big series on the iPAD before Christmas. Check it out. I love, love, love the iPAD.

 

Jul 03, 2011 01:36 AM
Bill Richey
Lisa Von Domek & Associates / Real Living Real Estate Group - Desoto, TX
Super blog, Cheryl. Thank you for sharing, this is helpful information for us relatively "new" Active Rain bloggers. I am still learning all of the ins-and-outs, and finding the time to log on everyday and explore. Have a great Sunday!
Jul 03, 2011 01:38 AM
Cindy Jones
Integrity Real Estate Group - Woodbridge, VA
Pentagon, Fort Belvoir & Quantico Real Estate News

I hop around.  Start with the bloggers I'm subscribed to, then look at featured posts and then late in the evening random posts.  Sometimes it is over 10 comments but if I see something good I'm not going to pass up a comment,  points or no points.

Jul 03, 2011 01:39 AM
Cheryl Ritchie
RE/MAX Leading Edge www.GoldenResults.com - Huntingtown, MD
Southern Maryland 301-980-7566

Cindy, my HAP Sale is underway. Will contact you if I have any questions.

I bop all around when not on the iPAD so I can get my two cents in!

Bill, I find by doing comments on my iPAD when I am reading other things  that my participation rate goes way, way  up.

Comments during the work day do not work for me. I like  to do them early or late so I can focus on business in the middle.

Happy Fourth!

Jul 03, 2011 01:55 AM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Cheryl, there is a way you can hope onto your desktop from your I-Pad - there really is an app for that!  But I'm still figuring it all out. 

Jul 03, 2011 01:57 AM
Lina Robertson
AMAX Real Estate - Springfield, MO
REALTOR® Serving Springfield, Nixa and Ozark, MO

I'm falling behind the times....I don't have an iPad.  Don't tell anyone.  It's kind of embarassing.  :)

Jul 03, 2011 02:09 AM
Cheryl Ritchie
RE/MAX Leading Edge www.GoldenResults.com - Huntingtown, MD
Southern Maryland 301-980-7566

Patricia, yes, LogMeIn.com works but it is cumbersome to me and takes the fun out of reading the posts.

Jul 03, 2011 02:27 AM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Cheryl- So did I let the cat out of the bag? :) 

That means that AR needs to make their site better optimized for iPads! I know, I see the same thing on my iPad but since I am home most of the time and when I travel on the plane- I take my iPad and my Mac Book Pro. So I can do all the work I need to do on the road too. 

But you have a valid point. I don't take it for an excuse but rather for a reason. Katerina 

Jul 03, 2011 01:19 PM
Gail Robinson
William Raveis Real Estate - Southport, CT
CRS, GRI, e-PRO Fairfield County, CT

I agree with Katerina.  AR needs to be optimized for iPads.  I often have my iPad in front of me during the evening while watching TV.  You can either be optimized to make comments or optimized to view AR posts, but not both a the same time.  Frustrating!

Jul 04, 2011 01:09 PM