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Online Meetings :: Really Feeling This…

Online Meetings :: Really Feeling This…

You’re reading all over Inman and in other news, mobility of the real estate agent and the office.  New apps that question, what is really the office?  Do I have to meet clients at the office…or simply meet at a local coffee shop or cafe for face-to-face time. Online…

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Being Frugal With Google – The Free Office Suite

Being Frugal With Google – The Free Office Suite

Do you have any idea how thrilled the Monks were when the printing press was invented? They could put up the quill pens and get over the old version of carpal tunnel. As a real estate professional in today’s Internet world, you should be ecstatic…

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A Quick and Easy Tool for Turning E-mail Signatures into Outlook Contacts

A Quick and Easy Tool for Turning E-mail Signatures into Outlook Contacts

For those of you who are constantly turning e-mail signatures into Outlook Contacts, I found a cool piece of software you can utilize — Anagram 2.1. Today, I recorded a quick video post (here’s my 1st video post comparing the iPhone to the BlackBerry) explaining…

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REALTOOLS for REALTORS®

REALTOOLS for REALTORS®

In the never ending quest to find new and useful tools to Blog about, and to share with REALTORS® all across the Country, I thought it might be useful to list some of the Top sites I have discovered over this past year. If you’re…

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For Real Estate or for "Piece of Mind", Digsby is "The Bomb"

For Real Estate or for "Piece of Mind", Digsby is "The Bomb"

Thanks to my newest BFF’s at makeuseof.com (an absolute must for any RSS Reader), I have found Digsby! I have been looking long and hard for an application that can allow me “All-in-one” access to my Emails, Social Networks (Twitter, Facebook, & MySpace), and my…

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Who needs a local desktop anymore?

Who needs a local desktop anymore?

In a world that is rapidly filling up with internet access points, that question might be more and more realistic. Introducing Ulteo.com, a complete online desktop with the tools to do most day to day work. I urge you to take a look at this,…

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"Old School" Real Estate vs "Tech Savvy" Agents

"Old School" Real Estate vs "Tech Savvy" Agents

I have coffee every weekday morning with a group of guys at our local Starbucks. Yesterday our resident “Answer Man”, Gerry (Gerry is like 50 yrs old or so), ran across a young “Tech Savvy” Real Estate Agent in line with a rather unique hairdo…….

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Did You Ever Notice Your Best Thoughts are on the Toilet?

Did You Ever Notice Your Best Thoughts are on the Toilet?

Ok, I don’t know about you guys, but for me it seems that my best thoughts come to me when I am “Going Potty” or driving on the freeway! the 2 most inopportune times in life to (jott) down a note. Until now it has…

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PdaNet for Treos

PdaNet for Treos

As a Realtor, I like many of you, am on the run a lot and don’t always have the luxury of being at my office. And in a time where a 5 minute response time is 5 minutes too long, I depend on my phone…

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Save the planet, be more geeky.

Save the planet, be more geeky.

I know a few agents in the Portland area that are working to save the environment and cut paperwork by using a new service called DocuSign. We can all do our part in 2008 for our planet, and I think that online document signing could…

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