Excellent 18 minute video of a talk on leadership by Jerry Colonna… A bit more in writing is available here. [via AVC]

Those running teams (particularly real estate tech startup founders) should certainly take a look at Slack for your teams communication. It’s real-time messaging, archiving and search brought into one. Prior to switching to Slack about a month ago, our team was primarily using group Skype chats to…

Via Seth Godin: Opening the doors for the masses to speak, giving everyone who cares to have one a microphone–it has led to an explosion in people speaking. And most people, most of the time, are saying virtually nothing. Nothing worth reading, nothing worth repeating,…

Does Anyone Use Facebook to Search for a Real Estate Agent? I’m not convinced the answer is yes. No one has ever told me they found their agent on Facebook. And, if the answer is no, who cares if N-Play has 250,000 agents in their…

Over a year ago when Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, between all the devastating pictures that came from this tragedy, I was struck by the images online of people gathering around power outlets and coffee shops to get charged. These survivors who had lost…

According to many, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is considered the most brilliant tech executive since the late Steve Jobs. I tend to agree with that thinking, which is exactly why I put so much weight on the most prominent part of Kindle’s new commercial being…the Mayday button. I’ve talked…

When watching the demo video for MindMeld (which launched last night), my mind jumps to conversations between buyers/sellers and their agents — with relevant information instantaneously surfaced. This seems like a better way to communicate, with trusted advisors in your life. What do you think?

It’s been a few weeks since I presented Curb Call, on stage at the Realogy / Retsly hackathon, the day before the NAR Expo in San Francisco. For those unfamiliar with it, it’s most easily described as “Uber for real estate”, where home buyers in the…

Keller Williams continues the technology announcements…partnering with Google to move 93,000 agents to Google’s Cloud. The biggest real estate deployment Google has ever done. Are any other franchises keeping pace on the technology side?

Watch the following video about Yammer. It’s well done. Does anyone use Yammer in your real estate workplace? How are you collaborating with your colleagues? [via https://about.yammer.com/moments/]