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Social and New Media

By Gina Kay Landis

Real Estate Agent with Home Experts Realty

March 25, 2008 07:39 PM

I have inundated myself with learning more about Social and New Media lately. Hours and hours spent devouring books and Internet postings, as well as chatting with newfound friends/followers on Twitter and more have made me sleepless in Ohio tonight.

It is, after all, 3:26am.

That said, I am seriously thrilled. Long a "geekette" - this stuff sets my alert to high and my energy up as well.

From blogging, to Twittering or Utterzing, to distribution of press releases, the entire New Media world has undergone an explosion of new development. RSS feeds can be aggregated by Yahoo Pipes or other aggregates like Technorati or FriendFeed so you don't have to check several different web sites - they are all on one feed. Makes it a little difficult to copy/paste a link to a favored page or site, but hey - there are other ways to share! Even press releases (particularly those handled by distribution services like MediaWire or others) can be formulated to be posted and attractive to several different audiences simply by formatting and distribution. Adding links to press releases - who'da thought?

I am truly excited about New Media. There is a local (well, 40 miles away) group called @newmediacincy on Twitter that has meetups now and again, where people can exchange ideas, grump about possible glitches or bugs, and get to know one another.

Social and New Media is, after all, about relationships. It appears to be about fun, as well. I'm open to fun!! After all, real estate is one of the most fun businesses (well if you enjoy it, as I do!).

All this Social and New Media is not just social, not just business, but like many brick-and-mortar sales offices, it mingles social and business, making your Twitterfriend or business associate a bit more "human" if you will - transparant, honest - and that's great IMHO.

But at 3:31am... well... there's no meetups going on right now! Just the kitty who (thankfully) is sleeping near me, and hubby in the other room snoring away, and other kitty who-knows-where but at least not yowling!

Back to the Twitterscreen...

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Maureen McCabe

HER Realtors - Columbus, OH

Columbus Ohio Real Estate

It's great to read someone who gets it.

My "What does the graphic say? " word here is pomegranate... I have a second Twitter account that I always forget about Real Esate Pom...

See you on Twitter!

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03/26/2008 06:07 AM
Maureen McCabe - Central Ohio real estate

Mar 25, 2008 11:07 PM

Gina Kay Landis

Home Experts Realty - Dayton, OH

Ohhhh you are REal Estate Pom!! OMG you know, I thought it said "Real Estate PORN" and didn't answer when you Twittered me! Gotta be careful since I access Twitter at the office a few times each day and the IT peeps may scour the server looking for forbidden fruit, if you will!

Thanks Maureen - yes - I sure do Get It - and Love It!!

Mar 26, 2008 03:29 AM

That's how I came up with the name... not wearing glasses. @itnoeth who is an IT person... I believe in the RE industry, her spouse is a real estate agent and AR member. I was following her and she wrote about Pom Juice. I read it as Porn Juice... and clicked to see what it was. She was talking about pomegranate juice. I don't think I started the Twitter id which is pom not porn immediately ...The avatar is a pomegranate. I did not start @realestatepom, until Toby B tested a video blog with the name, real estate porno...(not porn but porno) I am not sure if he is going forward with that blog or not.

Real estate porn is the point of many real estate blogs. Especially high end, luxury home blogs. Joel Burslem on FOREM and Dustin Luther on 4Realz.net both wrote posts last week about the new real estate porn on Zillow.

Mar 26, 2008 03:48 AM

Deb Brooks

Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Gina, I've never tried Twitter. I barely have time to continue with my full time business, spend quality time with family and still post on AR. I am visiting you as a recriprocation to your comment. So, is Twitter worth the time and why? Later in the rain~Deb

Apr 07, 2008 06:14 PM

Maureen - that's too funny! I'll have to look them up...

Hi Debra - Twitter is a short (140 character) micro blog about whatever you want to post - what you're doing at the moment, etc. It's also a way to distribute information, though it is primarily a social networking versus purely business venture for those who use it. Try it - you may be interested in "following" folks who have similar interests. Or, you can establish a Twitter presence so you can be "found" by people who are looking for real estate agents. Twitterlocal.com permits you to limit your view of Tweets (Twitter posts) to your local area, reducing as such the posts that are shown from around the world. As I am a sociologist at heart, it's incredibly interesting to me to see what people are doing in a different time zone. Can it be what's known as a "time suck"? Well, yes. Or it can serve you. Depends on how/when you use it, and if you like being "social" - I do, and like to ask questions, and just am generally an extrovert.

My background is in Bulletin Board postings, so I guess I carry that over to Twitter, making friends all over the world and getting/giving information. It's fun - it could be profitable - and a great learning tool for New Media - check it out if you'd like!

Apr 07, 2008 06:26 PM

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