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Janie Coffey
Janie Coffey
Janie has been in the development, construction and real estate industries for over 20 years. She began her career in commerical construction and has slowly worked into all of the related industries and added residential properties to her resume 7 years ago. She is currently the co-owner of sister companies, Papillon Real Estate and Papillon ReDevelopement (a construction and project management firm). In her "free" time, she is a graduate student of Atlantic History with a focus on the history of business and technology. She is a lover of geo-anything. She loves the story.
By Janie Coffey on March 16, 2010
Google Maps Mania is a mashup-of mash-ups. The site collects and displays map mash-ups created with the Google map API. There are maps of just about anything; historical spots, celebrities, beer spots, milk farms. You name it, it’s probably there. Embedding some unique or useful…
Posted in New Media | Tagged Google Maps, google mashup, maps
By Janie Coffey on March 10, 2010
One of the biggest lacking functions of the ever growing in popularity Foursquare check-in app was the inability to add pictures as you checked-in. A glaring missing and fundamental element, one might even say.
Finally, things have changed. Pickchur and 39 Inc. have paired up…
Posted in New Media | Tagged foursquare, geosocial, geotagging, geoweb, pictures, pikchur, real estate social media, Social Media, social networking
By Janie Coffey on March 3, 2010
Google has finally opened up their geo-tagged photo source for Maps and Street Views from the irritating and cumbersome Panaramio to Flickr and Picasa. (official Google Release). Geo-tagged photos are tagged by you (automatically or manually) with the location of a photo. Google takes that…
Posted in Marketing, New Media | Tagged Flickr, geo, geomapping, geotagging, google, Google Maps, Google Street Views
By Janie Coffey on February 24, 2010
There is a heated discussion going on right now in the RE.net regarding professionalism within and consumers’ opinions of the Real Estate Profession and how to bring the two into alignment. While how to “fix” the problem has become a polarizing issue, the fact that…
Posted in Real Estate, Realtors, Service | Tagged #rtb, consumer confidence, consumer perception, consumers, professionalism, raising the bar, the real estate consumer experience
By Janie Coffey on February 17, 2010
Bing’s announcement last week of their latest and most sophisticated augmented reality integration into Bing Maps was very exciting in both the mapping and augmented reality circles. Yet, real estate professionals, especially those with local blogs and or websites will find as much to drool…
Posted in New Media, Tech | Tagged augmented reality, bing, bing maps, Flickr, geo, geomapping, geotagging, live streaming video, photosynth
By Janie Coffey on February 10, 2010
There are three things I really love; maps, Google and real estate, so when you combine all three in a super-easy-to-use marketing tool and customer resource, you couldn’t make me much happier than RealBird did when they rolled out their map-based property search this week…
Posted in Marketing, Marketing | Tagged google, Google Maps, long tail search, map searching, property search, RealBird
By Janie Coffey on February 3, 2010
An important part (it could be argued the most important part) of the consumer experience is good communications. The bad news is that communications is one area where we are told we, as REALTORs, fall short of customer expectations. The good news is that communication…
Posted in Marketing, Realtors | Tagged communication, communications, consumer, consumer expectations, consumer experience, the real estate consumer experience
By Janie Coffey on January 20, 2010
Google is a powerhouse. Why not make sure to hitch your cart to the power of Google to position yourself for maximum exposure to potential real estate clients and contacts?
10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Supercharge the Exposure of Your Business and…
Posted in Marketing, Tech | Tagged geomapping, geotagging, google, Google Ad, google adwords, Google Base, Google Buiness Profiles, Google Earth, Google Real Estate, Google Street Views, Google Webcam, maps, Panoramio
By Janie Coffey on January 13, 2010
For those of your who have incorporated Social Media and/or SOI (sphere of influence) building into your 2010 business plan, Foursquare can be an integral part of establishing, building and strengthening your presence and participation in your local community. Foursquare is a geo-social online and…
Posted in New Media, Social Media | Tagged foursquare, geosocial, geotagging, geoweb, mapping, Social Media, Top 10 Geo 2009
