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By Benn Rosales on December 14, 2009
What is this, Caligula?
I’ve seen people complaining about promoting your listings on ActiveRain. Long, lofty, self-righteous, and often poisonous diatribes about why you shouldn’t clutter up their experience with your incessant need to do business or make money- well screw them. I say be in…
Posted in New Media, Real Estate | Tagged active rain, blogging, realtor networking
By Lani Rosales on October 23, 2009
Active Rain Real Estate Bloggers
Real Estate Blogging platform ActiveRain.com awards user points for various activities ranging from setting up a user profile to creating content, joining groups, or even commenting on other Active Rain blogs.
While we don’t really know what the points-to-closings ratio…
Posted in Real Estate | Tagged active rain, blogging
By Lani Rosales on November 26, 2008
International trouble brewing…
Tensions this high haven’t been seen since the Cuban missle crisis and people on all sides are scrambling to find an amicable resolution. At 1:09 am CST on November 26, 2008, Qwitter.com notified both Benn Rosales, founder of AgentGenius.com and Lani…
Posted in Highlights, Opinions | Tagged active rain, agentgenius
By Michael Price on August 22, 2008
One of the RE.net’s nicest guys, Rich Jacoboson aka ActiveRich took some time out of his schedule to talk to me today about Active Rain, Localism and his experience with REBarcamp. Rich is a veteran real estate blogger from the Seattle area that joined the…
Posted in Conference Coverage, Realtors, Social Media | Tagged active rain, blogging, real estate podcast, rebarcamp houston, rich jacobson
By Danilo Bogdanovic on July 8, 2008
Up to something…
Seems that the fellas over at Active Rain are up to something… But this time, it’s with Localism. Just check out their new home page (screen shot above).
Facelift or more…
Is it just a facelift or is it something more?…
Posted in New Media | Tagged active rain, hyper-local blog, Localism
By Jonathan Dalton on July 3, 2008
What??
Did he just say that? Does he mean that? Or is he simply using a provocative headline to attract readers, first of all, and to set the mood for the post, the subtle shading and shaping that takes place to elicit specific feelings…
Posted in New Media | Tagged active rain, blogging, Tech, Trulia
![Jumped The Shark? [Active Rain]](http://agentgenius.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/fonze.thumbnail.jpg)
By Jonathan Dalton on March 30, 2008
Active Rain came at the wrong time
Active Rain came into my life at precisely the wrong time. I already had committed to writing my own blog, at that time on the RealTown platform, and couldn’t find a way to keep two blogs active…
Posted in Marketing, Social Media | Tagged active rain, blogging
By Michael Price on February 17, 2008
I opened my feed reader to find a well intentioned plea from Drew Meyers on the GeekEstate blog. He is making a request to the Re.net to refrain from personal attacks on blogs.
The vitriol and name calling we are seeing lately isn’t limited…
Posted in Social Media | Tagged active rain, blogging, re.net, real estate brokers, real talk
By Benn Rosales on January 29, 2008
I was reading Matt, you know, Matt that founded Wordpress, and he called out Seth Godin on having a typepad with a name like Seth Godin. Matt made the following point that I found astounding:
it drives me crazy that people like Seth Godin…
Posted in Wordpress, Zillow | Tagged active rain, housevalues.com, information aggrigation, Tech, Trulia, typepad, Wordpress, Zillow
By Mariana Wagner on November 21, 2007
I was thinking about technology and how we use it in our life – and by “our life” I mean Derek and my life. I came to the conclusion that we each use the HECK out of technology … but in completely different ways.
Derek…
Posted in New Media | Tagged active rain, communication, jott, PDA, Tech
