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Flock - A Browser for the Socially Connected Realtor.

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Services for Real Estate Pros with DeeSign.com

Today’s real estate professional needs to stay connected to many social networking platforms. It can be overwhelming trying to keep track of all your login credentials, media files, contacts.

Marketing and participating on the web has become more than search marketing. Our client base is becoming more involved in the social web. They look to their online friends for recommendations.

flock

Flock aggregates all your social web accounts and services. You only need to launch the browser and you’re instantly logged into and have access to all your accounts. It also brings together all your friends into one unified sidebar. From there you can view your Facebook friends, your twitter followers and the people you have a connection with on Digg, Flickr, Picassa, MySpace and YouTube.

It provides media streaming from all the above sources and you can choose which of your sources that you want to include in your media stream. Flock also provides access to your web mail (Gmail & Yahoo Mail), your Delicious bookmarks and RSS feeds from your favorite blogs.

If that’s where it ended, it would be worth the install, but there is so much more. The power of Flock is the ability to drag and drop between your social spaces. Like a blog story and want to share it with your friends? Simply drag it to your people and it’s done.

Flock has sidebars for My World (a dashboard similar to IGoogle), People (aggregated from all your sites), Feeds, Web Mail, a pretty decent favorites tool, Accounts and Services, a very powerful web clipboard, a blog editor and a photo uploader.

If you like using toolbars and add-ins, Flock has you covered. Because it’s built on Firefox, just about any plug-in can be added.

Flock needs a lot of screen real estate. If you have a widescreen LCD, you’re set. It looks great on my 24″ widescreen!

Here’s where you can download it: http://www.flock.com/

The browser comes with a flash tutorial, but I found these video links:

A basics video from the makers of flock - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbRUgzRRdlE

More detailed screencast explaining the basic features in more detail - (Be sure to check HQ in the YouTube controls) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crB8CcYBnBQ

And a really detailed video on configuring Flock - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_t-omG4aY

Happy Flocking!

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Lanre-"THE REAL ESTATE FARMER" Folayan
ERNAL REAL ESTATE GROUP with Samson Properties - Bowie, MD
I don't make promises.I deliver results.SOLD HOMES

I am definitely going to check this out. Another group to join. Social networking sites keeps growing by the numbers. I found this blog on your Twitter page. Thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend. Great post.

Mar 13, 2009 04:52 AM