For those who haven’t heard of REBarCamp (where have you been??), you must have missed the San Francisco REBarCamp in July. As background for this post, I suppose it would help to explain what “RE” BarCamp is: BarCamp is an international network of user generated…

Yahoo! has some interesting findings regarding how online engagement influences the agent selection process, which will be presented at the upcoming NAR Conference. The session will be titled “Building an Online Presence in a Fragmented Market” and it will be in the Convention Center on…

Geekestate blog is number 53 in the Global Edge list of top 100 “Most Powerful Property People”. The list was compiled by using the search term “real estate blog” and “property news”. Other notable inclusions are Real Estate Shows, Active Rain, Zillow Blog, Trulia Blog,…

Amongst the many qualities of a successful real estate agent is their ability to have a rock solid and comprehensive listing strategy to present to their prospective sellers. In recent years, the push to follow the web 2.0 revolution and feed your listings to every…

Visiting Coldwell Banker on an iPhone now directs you to the iPhone version of their site. My initial thoughts on their iPhone site are similar to Joel’s review. It is certainly easy to browse listings and pull up a listing detail page to see more…

We have a great view from our offices in downtown Seattle. This Saturday I set up my digital camera to take a series of time lapse photographs to record a sunset before the grey clouds return for the winter. This video is the very rough…

There are a number of free tools out there that can help you market yourself and your listings through the use of social media. Whether it’s posting an item on Facebook, blogging on Active Rain, uploading a video to ZIPVO (my employer), or posting a…

Syndicating listings to 3rd party websites should be part of your SEO (search engine optimization) strategy. It’s a simple formula; you allow your listings to be published on other websites (comparison of who sends real estate listings to what portals) in exchange for a link…

Being the blogger that I am, I’m constantly adding links to blog posts. Anything that makes it quicker and easier to link to something is a win in my book, which is why I found this “Copy as HTML Link” add-on useful. [via Agent Genius]

I was just skimming some tech news and saw the State of the Blogosphere post on TechCrunch (data via Technorati) with an interesting chart breaking down the types of bloggers maintaining blogs. 79% personal bloggers 12% corporate bloggers 46% professional bloggers This data was based…