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Civility, GroupThink, The Interwebs & The Practice of Real Estate
Oh the value of the interwebs - what an amazing tool to share knowledge, establish expertise & promote one's expertise! At our fingertips are an endless variety of blogs, sites & social media tools that are ingredients of the digital stew that feed and nourish our businesses...and can sour or taint one's reputation & public perception of the industry, collectively & individually, within seconds.
In any number of "private" groups, "members-only" forums, tweets, retweets, discussions and straight out in front of the public, there are opportunities galore to show our expertise, experience and mastery that we work so hard to achieve...while at the same time proclaim to the world that some of us are no better than the braying asses many in the public perceive practitioners in this business to be.
Time after time I have witnessed simple, earnest discussions devolve into name-calling, character assassinations, and worse. Accusations of ethical misconduct, pious declarations of "I never/I always (insert whatever here)" and endless instances of "piling on" fly around the electronic universe as individuals become a mob espousing "integrity," "ethics," "raising the bar," the merits of one business model vs another, how-to/where-to/whether-to/should-do/shouldn't-do and much more.
In many ways, we mirror what we see in our ... more

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