I’m very pleased to announce that Larry Lohrman is joining the regular contributors on the sidebar at GeekEstate Blog. Larry is a professional photographer specializing in real estate photography and 360VR. In addition, he is the founder of the Photography For Real Estate, a blog…

There was a fantastic discussion at Gnomedex (the “Blogosphere’s Conference”) last weekend led by my colleague, Vanessa Fox, that touched on a very interesting & important subject — How Much of Your Digital Identity Do you Control? Specifically, she talked “about how the more you…

The 55th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is up at TheLandJournal! Update: I’m excited to say that we’ll be hosting the carnival here at GeekEstate Blog next week to fill in for Manhattan Real Estate Voice, whose author is swamped with other commitments….

There is a great conversation (51 comments) occurring on Lani’s A Call for ALL to Participate in Blog Transparency at R.E.Revealed. Lani added PHP code to her blog that displays the IP address of each commenter as a way to thwart anonymous “trolls” who aim…

Update: My friend Dustin Luther, who works for Move, has chimed in both on the original thread and commented on this post — Realtor.com DOES support .wmv files. Sorry for the confusion. Relating to using video to market yourself or your listings, I came across…

There are a wealth of blog widgets out there that can help you satisfy your readers’ desire for real estate information — some of which are excellent, some which aren’t. Here’s 10 widgets that I’ve seen that provide value to consumers: Criteo Auto Roll –…

The 54th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Realty Thoughts — take a look!

Many home buyers — 70% according to the California Association of Realtors study — use the internet as an integral part of the home-buying process. They aren’t just looking for homes, they are looking for agents too. In an age where buyers and sellers are…

I’m very pleased to announce that GeekEstate Blog has added another regular contributor — Jay Thompson, a Realtor(R) for Century 21 Aware Realty in Phoenix, who maintains the popular PhoenixRealEstateGuy blog. In the announcement post, we mentioned that “we’re certainly interested in finding several “geeky”…

I had a superb time at Real Estate Connect last week in San Francisco. It was great to put a real human face to the names I have only read, e-mailed, and spoken with over the phone over the past year. Anyway, enough rambling from…