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Who Lives in Your Blogosphere?

October 27th, 2008 · 160 Comments

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 social media, they [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Opinion · Social Media

New Tools – Old Standards

September 2nd, 2008 · 213 Comments

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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Tags: Blogging · Social Media · Uncategorized

Agent Genius Rocks Inman Connect

July 26th, 2008 · 163 Comments

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, starting with [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Conferences · Real Estate · Social Media

Bricks & Clicks Is the Industry REALLY Changing?

July 10th, 2008 · 160 Comments

I already did a version of this post on AgentGenius which turned into a rant on service. But the nice thing about posting to more then on place is that I can take a single idea and expound on it from different perspectives.
 This perspective is the resistance I believe the majority of people have to adopting [...]

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Tags: Social Media · Technology · Wacky stuff

C21AgVoices – Blogging Philadelphia Real Estate

July 2nd, 2008 · 174 Comments

As people in the real estate industry talk about blogs, it seemed to me that agents would find it easier to start blogging about who they are and what they know if they didn’t have to learn it all on their own, and maintain a rapid pace of writing from the very start. In a [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Real Estate · Social Media

Somebody Flamed Our Listing!

June 27th, 2008 · 169 Comments

Photo by KIWI NZ
I got an email earlier this week from one of my Partners.
“Would you suggest defending our listing? Check out Philly Blog – the blog is 2040 St Albans. The blog poster was a previous buyer in a failed transaction. The home inspection revealed defects. The seller was willing to correct most but [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Ethics · Opinion · Social Media

AgentGenius Rocks!

June 16th, 2008 · 212 Comments

Today, Inman News announced their 11th Annual Innovator Awards finalists.
In the category of Blogging the finalists were;
Blog
1000Watt Blog
AgentGenius
Big Picture Blog
FBS Blog
Homegain Real Estate Blog
It is not amazing to me that Benn Rosales and Lani Anglin-Rosales achieved such recognition so rapidly, nor that Inman recognized the quality of the writers at AgentGenius. It does however amaze [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Opinion · Real Estate · Social Media

Living in the Internet

June 13th, 2008 · 155 Comments

Who Needs a Second Life?
I don’t need a program called “Second Life”. I’ve tried it but I just don’t “get it”. I know I can fly, but I keep bumping into things when I try. I’m not interested in trying to be a different body type or sex on screen. Not because I am not [...]

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Tags: Social Media · Technology

Finding My Voice

June 12th, 2008 · 327 Comments

Blogging is new to me
Well, sort of. I’ve been blogging for a little while now on AgentGenius as a contributor. But that’s a blogging community so that isn’t totally my responsibility. And I have been “practicing”on Blogger with a fledgling effort called MovePhilly, but I really wasn’t sure what I was doing there.  I felt like [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Opinion · Real Estate · Social Media

Hello world!

May 26th, 2008 · 315 Comments

Welcome to my take on Technology, the Real Estate Industry, Social Media, and whatever random thoughts I choose to share.
Before I start, I want to make a few commitments to anyone who finds this post.
I will not post information without confirmation or attribution.
I will try to provide as much useful information as possible.
I will try to keep [...]

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Tags: Opinion · Wacky stuff