That’s right.  It’s gonna “rain” this year, but not on the parade.  ActiveRain Corp. is a proud sponsor of the Real Estate BarCamp this year being held in Houston, Texas.  Rumor has it that Rich Jacobson aka (Sparky) and Brad Andersohn aka (Active Brad) will…

Last Tuesday we held the Vancouver Real Estate Technology Meetup at Ceilis Irish Pub. We ran it in a little different format this month. We had 3 tech savy Realtors on stage with me to have a question and answer period about the technology they…

Hi Guys, wanted to stop by and let you know I have returned from my “hiatus”, so to speak. I took some time to move from Northern California to Southern California (Long Beach), as well as start 2 BRAND NEW (eek!) Internet based businesses surrounding…

StudioNow has teamed with NewCondosOnline.com to create & deliver video content with their network of video professionals for condo listings and developments advertised on NewCondosOnline. From the press release: StudioNow, the premier online video creation platform, today announced it will provide high-quality video marketing and…

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…

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…

My dad is the arguably the most intelligent person I know, but he has this thing against technology and anything that requires him to do more than press a few buttons. So it was with not a little wonder that I recently saw him use…

I haven’t had much time lately to keep up with my real estate tech news readings, so maybe I missed this announcement on another site. Either way, Microsoft’s absolutely incredible Photosynth technology has been released to the public for a bit over two weeks now,…

Trying to figure out where to advertise listings on the Internet can be is a daunting task.  If you went to every website that displayed real estate listings and added just one listing to all of them, well, it’s not really possible.  With new listing…