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Testing a Cool New Feature

After reading another Active Rain post by Maggie Dokic I discovered I can take my Excel spreadsheets, upload them into google docs and embed them in my blog posts! What a great feature. I had to give it a try. I have to be honest, I had to click on help to figure out how it works. But after 15 minutes I have the basics figured out. A little bit of a learning curve.
I have been updating my market numbers today and decided to post the average sales price for the Silverthorne area from 2004 up to today. I will have to do a blog about it now that I can embed my excel info! What a great tip Maggie! Plan on lots of spreadsheets embedded everywhere from me!

Posted by Meredith Hanson --Summit County Colorado Realtor on 10/26/2007 06:38 PM

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41 Comments on Testing a Cool New Feature

OCT

2007

I can think of lots of places we can use this. Thanks Maggie! Now you have it figured out Meredith, you will have to show me...

Hey this is great! For an Excel geek like me this is terrific!

Meredith, you must be related to Joanne, right? Her younger sister is my best guess =) I am so glad you two found this useful!

Wow.. thats pretty sweet. Thanks for the heads up Meredith!

Really that's really kewl There so many ways to use this wonderful tool called Active Rain! Bookmarketing this one!

Meredith, just learned how to use excel for graphs and now this. Got to try it. I'm bookmarking! Thanks so much.

Meredith, great info...I'll have to try it out!

The charts look great. I will have to try it!

OCT

2007

As a former Silverthorne resident from many, many moons ago, I've got to say that you Summit County Realtors are always coming up with great new ideas that I love! Thanks for this one. Thanks to Maggie, too.

Thanks for the info! That is a great tool for all of AR.

Great tip ... I've been pasting as a picture, but like this a lot more.

Maggie, you are a sweetheart! Of course, Meredith might not like the comment as much as I did!

Thanks for the post, Gives me some ideas on other ways Google Docs could be used. Thanks.

Nice!! thank you for sharing this could be used in many ways.

OCT

2007

Google docs has a graphing option too but I haven't gotten that far into checking it out. I was so excited about being able to embed a spreadsheet I had to do that first. This sounds like a great option for bigger documents that may not have the option of posting as a picture. Thanks Maggie for the great idea!

NOV

2007

Now this looks like something that could be useful. Keep up the good work finding all of these little tricks.

Jason, you're not implying some of my other blogs aren't useful, are you??? :)

Good for you! It looks like information that potential clients will want to see!!

Lori - I think it is a great option to display statistics professionally. If they are ongoing stats it will automatically update your post when you make the changes too. Your posts will never be outdated.

NOV

2007

Google Docs Rock - there are so many un-tapped uses for them... I love them

That is cool, I am going to have to keep that in mind. I am sure I will be using it in the future.

great post. I will have to try this as well. Thank you

Google never ceases to amaze me! Talk about cutting edge and staying ahead of the curve! As Realtors we should all try and be like Google!

ah ha, sweet little feature I didn't know about. Thanks for sharing.

-Chris

I love Google docs for my Brownie troop management! It lets me share management with another leader real time. Now I can do this too!

Guess where I'm spending my next hour or so?

Thanks to both of you!

Chris & Josette - I need to spend some more time checking out all Google docs has to offer myself. I think there's still more to it.

Meridith, I read the help and can't figure out how to do it. Can you give me some advice please. I would love to save my excel programs into my blogs. Thanks

NOV

2007

Hi Judy - Here's a quick overview how it works.

1. go to http://docs.google.com 2. Click browse to find the file on your computer to upload. 3. Click Upload File 4. wah-lah, your spreadsheet should be there! 5. Click publish (top right) 6. Click publish now 7. Check the box if you will be updating this graph and want it to automatically update to your post. 8. Click more publishing options 9. File format should be HTML to embed in a web page 10. Choose what sheets 11. What cells - you have to choose the cells. I couldn't get All cells to work. Enter it like this - top left box:bottom right box (A1:M:14) 12. Click Generate URL 13. Copy and paste it into your blog!

If you are still having troubles let me know and I'll do a little tutorial thing with pictures & stuff!

Apparently it does graphs too but I haven't spent any time figuring it out yet.

Wonderful tip Meredith and your prices have a nice healthy climb to them as well for current homeowners. Must be the altitude there!

Gary - And those are actual numbers for Silverthorne and for all of Summit County. Appreciation rates have been really good here even with the tough markets across the country lately.

NOV

2007

Meridith, I finally figured it out. Instruction 9 where you said html- embed in a webpage, I just did html. I can't believe that I did that. Thanks so much. This is awesome!!!!

What a great idea and very useful for many things. I will have to try it out sometime!

YEA JUDY!!!

Bill - I can see it as a great tool! Don't forget it's out there.

NOV

2007

Howdy Meredith

Thank you for writing this very fine info post for all AR folks to learn something new to do.

I'll give it a shoot.

Have a good one

Dale

Dale - I think this tool has many possibilities. I haven't had time to do much with it. Let me know how you end up utilizing it.

NOV

2007

Great post. Thank you for sharing it. I'm always lokig for this type of info.

Good luck to you!

Very helpful and informative...thanks!

This is great. We can learn alot from Activerain.

NOV

2007

Great tip and lucky you, I see your market is one of the few where pricing is not on the decline. I warmly remember those days, we have been going down in price for 3 years straight.

Thanks for the tips! I'm always so happy to see that we are all able to share in here!!

Armondo,Chassity & Michael - AR is a great place to get this type of info for sure. It's nice to have a forum to share ideas with other Realtors in other markets.

Your welcome James. Hope it helps.

Beth - Yikes! Well e ventually it's got to start heading the right way. Hopefully it's soon.

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