Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Foursquare and five years ago: Recalling the promise of real estate and social media

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”

– Confucious
2005. Social media drifted into real estate like a thick morning fog by way of the Rain City Guide blog. It was published by an unknown author [...]


Measuring influence on Twitter: Who “cares?”

Recently, I found myself backstage at a Black Eyed Peas concert courtesy of my best bud, who handles the band. A chair on the side of the stage was offered to me, a few feet away from the action. Below, a tent filled with food was at my disposal.
My friend is very influential in the [...]


Proposed roads to social media freedom

The world as it could be made

In his book Proposed Roads to Freedom, social philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote:
“In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they [...]


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100 great Twitter tools

Kelly Sonora from Online Best Colleges just sent me her post titled: 100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals. There are many tools here that I never heard of and will be testing them throughout the week….


Speaking to a Tweeting crowd

This image was posted on Conversion Agent this morning in a great post titled “Twitter Brings Interaction to Events.” In it, Valeria Maltoni offers some great tips to speakers on how to craft presentations that are interactive and sustain audience…


Here lies Web 2.0

John Cable published a blog post this past October titled “The End of Web 2.0?” His end was marked by the drained IV bag of venture capital that no longer pumped its lifeblood into the veins of all the loosey-goosey…


Real estate on steroids

Stattweets launched today, enabling sports fans to follow their favorite teams, get spreads, scores, standings, ranks etc. The idea isn’t new but their angle is. The content here is broadcast direct from the teams themselves rather than from the arbitrary…


Life during wartime

Part one of a two-part series. A hubbub of technological euphoria swirls in real estate. It’s been here since the early days of agent domain squatters and will likely last well past Real Estate Connect 2008, where talking heads, brokers,…


The terror of Twitter

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. — Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot What if you could float in the ether and listen to the wails of…


Today’s open social, a legacy from the past

If you think your customers know you because of your website bio, think again. If you think you create loyalty from a simple brand statement, think again. If you think all this innovation separates you from tradition, please think again….