Archive for June, 2007

The AvivaDirectory has a great article titled “12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know” that is probably worth reading if you’re a blogger. There is some fantastic “How to stay out of trouble” advice to accompany the 12 laws that are listed.
Hat tip to Jessica Swesey at the Inman Blog for finding [...]

The 47th edition, titled “The Top Ten Says of the Week aka The Carnival of Real Estate” of the Carnival of Real Estate is now live at RE Agent in CT. Head on over and take a look!
The next carnival will be held on Monday, June 25 at Altos Research. Please submit your best [...]

I’ve had a busy week, but I finally caught up with Craig Schiller for this week’s podcast. Craig hosted the 46th edition of the carnival at Home Staging, Rants & Ravings. I really enjoyed the chat, which ran about 18 minutes in length. Among the many topics discussed, Craig had some great thoughts about blogging, [...]

I use a free pinging service called Pingoat.com after each post to my blog. For those unfamiliar with the concept, pinging is a method of notifying different websites and directories that your RSS feed has been updated with new content. In some cases you can configure your blog to do this automtically, but with so [...]

There are numerous multi-author blogs around the internet, and several very successful ones within the real estate category (RE.net). In my mind, there are several primary benefits to multi-author blogs:

Distributed Workload — No doubt about it, writing takes a lot of time, meaning blogging also takes a lot of time. A multi-author blog allows [...]

Greg Swann has an interesting post over at BloodHoundBlog titled “An RE.net taxonomy: Identifying types of real estate weblogs.” Take a look and see what category your real estate blog falls under!

I ran across an interesting way to promote a blog yesterday. Zimbio.Com. From their web site:
“We enable our contributors to build wikizines - interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - with coverage of current events, cultural reference points, and niche areas of interest. We make it simple for people to compile the web’s [...]

You are invited to attend the First Southwest Real Estate Blogging Conference and Active Rain Members Gathering on June 21, 2007. The two bloggers presenting:
1. Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy. the best Real Estate blog in the Valley.
2. Greg Swann, blogger extraordinaire of BloundhoundBlog. A must read for agents.
Venue: The Ranch House Restaurant
2155 [...]

Blogging is certainly a great way to establish relationships, but there’s still nothing like actually meeting someone face-to-face. To help the RE.net connect with each other in person, I’ve made another addition to this blog that I think bloggers will find useful — a RE.net Event Calendar (near the top of the right sidebar)!
To help seed [...]

Connect with Bloggers Around the World
Real estate bloggers from around the globe are gathering in San Francisco for a two-day real estate blogging networking event. Enjoy face time with your colleagues in the real estate blogosphere including ample party and networking time along with sessions that will help you gather insights into best practices and [...]