Many of you have likely been to one of the many RE BarCamps that have taken place over the past year and a half, and now that movement is going “virtual“. Tomorrow marks the 1st “Virtual” Real Estate BarCamp from 9-4 PST and it’s free…

Google and Twitter has been big news across the blogosphere today… unfortunately it provokes a “meh” response from me. Why? Because a simple plugin for IE or Firefox called WebMynd (that has been around for quite a while) already did this and much much more.

Wordpress MU is a multi-user blogging platform, allowing the webmaster to easily manage hundreds of thousands of blogs from a single WordPress installation… More and more Realtors, Homeowners, Appraisers, Loan Officers, Title Companies, and Mortgage Brokerages will be using this powerful application.

I’ve been to 3 Real Estate Barcamps in the past year. Seattle, Portland, and then Seattle #2. This isn’t nearly as many as some of the vendors like our friends at Zillow or Altos have attended, but I feel like I have a feel for…

The final release of version 2 of the Local Market Explorer WordPress Plugin is still a week or so away, but for the adventurous, we’re making available a beta version to try out. I feel pretty confident that there aren’t major bugs though, so you…

I thought I’d give everyone a heads up that version 1.1 of the Local Market Explorer for WordPress includes a new module — local class information from TeachStreet. From the TeachStreet blog: To see how it can work, check out this realtor’s local class and…

WordPress is full of great plug-ins, as many owners of full WordPress sites can attest, but some are definitely more valuable than others. At any given time my real estate website is running 10-15 plug-ins but my two newest additions really stand out. Sidebar Countdown…

One of the sessions I moderated (along with Garron Selliken) at yesterday’s RE BarCamp was titled “wordpress and real estate”. Both Garron and I are wordpress fanatics – though I’ll admit he’s a bit deeper in the weeds than I am. Garron is the principal…

If you are in the Greater Seattle area or willing to travel for some geeky discussion and networking, the 2nd Seattle RE BarCamp is rapidly approaching. And if you missed the first one, please don’t miss this one because it’ll be even bigger and better!…

Being immersed in the real estate blogosphere and starting to follow all the great blogs out there has made me wonder when these blogs came to fruition. When did influential RE.net blogs — even this very one I’m posting on — get their start? When…