Archive for June, 2007

This morning, I caught up with Michael Simonsen for this week’s CoRE Podcast. Michael hosted the 48th edition of the carnival at Altos Research Real Estate Insights. We touched on a variety of topics; business benefits of blogging, the Silicon Valley market, the “blogging about others’ listings” debate, and photos. Hopefully everyone finds this chat [...]

Phoenix area bloggers and bloggers-in-training experienced their first “blogging conference” last Thursday, the 21st. Greg Swann from BloodHoundBlog and Jay Tompson, the Phoenix Real Estate Guy, both spoke. Greg was kind enough to film the event and post video files on his blog for those interested in watching.

Part 1 - Jay Thompson
Part 2 - Greg [...]

Altos Research has the 48th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate posted. Michael Simonsen highlights the best posts in three categories — real estate technology, consumer-focused real estate, and real estate professional content (industry insights). Head on over and take a look!
The carnival will take a break for the week of July 4th, but [...]

Erik at Realty Thoughts posted an interesting video talking about real estate blogging.

Greg Swann has put together A how-to book-in-weblog-form for would-be real estate webloggers. The book is largely complete, but the beauty of a digital book published using Wordpress is that it can be continually improved. With real estate bloggers popping up all over the place, this should be a great resource for those looking to [...]

Well someone has to almost win the Carnival, so why not you? Here’s my inside scoop on how to slant the odds in your favor. Most of this stuff is pretty straightforward and easy to do, but you’d be surprised how often entries to the Carnival stumble on these points.
So starting in order of least [...]

Place: Logan’s Roadhouse
Location: Orlando
Date: June 23, 2007
Time: 1pm
More info: http://activerain.com/blogsview/92649/Active-Rain-Is-Coming

The ActiveRain Real Estate Network is a year old now. While we’ve certainly been connecting on-line, the blogging community is getting to the point where members are making connections off-line as well. To celebrate the 1 year anniversary, Active Rain is facilitating local gatherings where members of from around the country are getting [...]

Place: 230 Fifth
Location: 230 Fifth Avenue (26th street) - Rooftop Lounge with Manhattan Skyline Panorama views including the Empire State Building
Date: June 30, 2007
Time: 6pm and beyond
More info: http://activerain.com/blogsview/96435/Start-Spreading-the-News

Here’s another real estate blog that seems to have gone unnoticed. The blog is Blog’s Away, and features So Cal real estate talk.

As you can see from the picture of the header, the slogan is, “Go ahead and read my mind.” It’s an amusing take on the Southern California real estate market, and includes random [...]