Book cover via Amazon 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...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife 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...
business or pleasure Originally uploaded by Will Lion 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...
Internet Porn Originally uploaded by gillyberlin Long the leading search item on the Internet, porn has fallen on hard times (no pun intended), as Social Networking trends to become one of the hottest searches on the web. Bill Tancer,a self-described Geek, in his new book, “Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hopefully, if you’re reading this post, you read my earlier post from Inman Connect in San Francisco earlier this week. That was sort a neat tech moment, written on my phone, a Treo 755, during the conference in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. It was just one of several exciting moments for me,...
Yesterday I got to meet a number of the people that I have been conversing with, arguing with and agreeing with for several months. In an very limited structure these people gathered together from all over the country to talk about what they do and how they can do it better. Tagged on to...
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