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As I write this, I am in a hotel in Western Pennsylvania, where ReBarCamp Pittsburgh will take place tomorrow.
I’m writing this post because of a few conversations I had recently with friends of mine. It seems that there was a conversation about whether ReBarCamps served any purpose. Concerns were expressed that [...]

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Tomorrow morning I fly out to Atlanta for ReTechSouth.
The conference has grown into a pretty substantial it event describing itself as;
A place where agents, brokers, lenders, builders and many other real estate industry practitioners could join together to collaborate on how technology can improve business
Sounds pretty good doesn’t it? And I’m very impressed [...]

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2008 was a tough year. And its not one I’m sorry to see leave.
The challenges we face in business are just  part of our business, which is now and has always been cyclical. But  2008 will always be the year that I lost my best friend, suddenly, without explanation (not that [...]

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I’m tough to buy gifts for. It drove my wife and son nuts. But they have always racked their brains and come up with some outstanding things for birthdays or Father’s day. This year my son and daughter-in-law got off easy.
Knowing how involved I had become in Blogging and social media, they [...]

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Technorati recently published their report on the “State of the Blogosphere / 2008″ , the newest version of an annual study which has been digging into trends in blogging since 2004.
I’ll actually be doing more of an analysis of their findings over at BuzzBuilderz, the social media marketing site maintained [...]

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business or pleasure
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I had a conversation recently with my son Hal, President of BuzzBuilderz, our Social Marketing Company.
He had just met with a Commercial real estate broker about using Social Networking as part of their marketing plan. Hal had explained to him the benefits of building an on-line identity, acquiring a [...]

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A year ago I had a vague understanding that there was something out there called Blogging that was creating a stir in the real estate world.
I’m a pretty techie type of guy so I found Blogger and created a small Blog that I named MovePhilly, but frankly, after a couple of posts I felt like [...]

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Social Media is not organized. Its organic and exciting, and confusing to most new participants. Real Estate agents and companies know that they should be Blogging, just like they knew they needed a database in the 19990s and their own web site at the start of this century. And like the databases and the web [...]

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transformational technology Originally uploaded by Will Lion
When we get involved in social media to build our businesses, often there is that last Century thinking behind the 21st Century technology. We try to determine who we are in a vacuum rather then seeing the world through the eyes of our consumer.
Some of it is inevitable. The [...]

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There is a lot of conversation in the real estate industry about print advertising being overtaken by on-line alternatives.
There are surveys that show that most buyers start their search for homes on th Internet, and obviously it is better for the consumer to see more photos,in color, with amps and statistics,then it is to read [...]

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