Okay, I admit it – Google has some very good products that I would have trouble giving up, but as they get bigger and bigger, I’m not sure how comfortable I am with so much of my informaiton in the hands of one company.  Google has just come up with Dashboard.  This new service lets [...]

I bought an HTC Hero on Friday. This is a Google phone that runs the open source Android platform. I’m a big fan of open source. I use Firefox as my browser and I built my website on Wordpress. When you open up code to everyone, you get excited people sharing [...]

I was very excited to be this week’s Social Media Blog Carnival judge. All in all it has been a very interesting and educational experience but I must admit that I was a bit underwhelmed by the number and quality of some of the entries. The biggest ah-ha that I had for my [...]

Do you use a Blackberry , iPhone or Treo? Send yourself a test email and then look at the bottom of the email. Every email you send from your smartphone probably says something like “Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry“.  Unless Verizon or the other smartphone carriers start paying us for every email [...]

I was teaching a class last week for the Massachusetts Association of REALTORS. We spent the day talking about ways to do a better job marketing our listings for our clients.  Although the class isn’t a technology class, many times the agents would ask me a question and I’d say “well, there’s a great [...]

There are two things that I enjoy about being a real estate consultant – the relationships I form with the people I work with and the constant change of the business. I began my career in 1991 when our multiple listing service was slowly making the change from being printed in books and sent [...]

Did you get a new Wii or Iphone for the holidays and now don’t know what to do with your old phone or XBox? I’ve just come across a very cool site called Gazelle. This company buys old electronics like camcorders, cellphones and MP3 players. Rather than just recycle the components, they [...]

Okay, if you’re having fun on Twitter, then you probably would like to have more people follow you, so you need to make it as easy as possible for people to reaiize that you tweet.  TwitButton.com has 72 free buttons for you to use to spread the word.  All you need to do it go [...]

Facebook is fun. It’s given me a great way to reconnect with friends from long ago, like high school (which is longer ago than I like to think :), and stay in contact with friends, family and clients. Using Facebook for both business and personal friends got me thinking . . . there [...]

I’ve been giving a new presentation to help real estate agents understand social media and why they want to get involved. Whenever I teach, there’s always something new I learn, this time from Laura, one of the agents who came to a class.
This video is the work of a Karl Fisch, a teacher at [...]