activerain features: New batch of ActiveRain enhancements - 06/06/07 09:54 AM
We just put up a new batch of enhancements to ActiveRain based off of your requests these past couple weeks. These enhancements are a part of a continuous effort to improve your experience and provide you with more ways to find content.
New filter for blog posts:
Enhancement #1 is an additional filter for … (67 comments)
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activerain features: Private groups and other enhancements - 05/20/07 10:46 PM
Private groups are here! We just released them along with several enhancements to the existing group features on ActiveRain. The three main improvements were, the addition of private groups, the ability to invite members to a group, and categories to help people find groups to join. Details on all of these … (56 comments)
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activerain features: Non-member comment notification improvements - 05/12/07 01:18 PM
This morning we put up a couple minor feature enhancements to ActiveRain, which members keep asking for. Here are two of the main ones.
Comment notification for non-members
We added a new way for non-activerain members to receive email notifications of replies to comments they leave on blogs here at ActiveRain. This enhancement … (28 comments)
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activerain features: In the works - Customizing Your ActiveRain Blog - 02/18/07 05:40 PM
One of the most commonly mentioned shortcomings of blogging on ActiveRain has been the lack of customizability of the platform of members blogs. We work to create a very easy to use platform for the real estate industry and never intend or do intend to compete with the feature sets of other … (45 comments)
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activerain features: Localism update - Neighborhoods, communities, urban villages... - 01/24/07 02:48 PM
Again, if you don't know about Localism our consumer portal which is under development you can read more here. As promised we are pushing new features every couple days to get us to an official launch in a few months. This morning we released an update allowing members to add communities/neighborhoods/urban … (79 comments)
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activerain features: Lots of site updates Tuesday morning... - 01/15/07 12:44 AM
Just a heads up to ActiveRain members, there will be a whole bunch of site updates coming on Tuesday morning. Many of these updates are based on member feedback over the previous two weeks. Here's a bullet list of some of the updates, there will be more details Tuesday morning.
Members will … (39 comments)
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activerain features: Points, dashboard changes and other stuff... - 01/02/07 02:48 PM
Some of you (ok, many of you) already noticed some changes to the Blog Dashboard this morning and have noticed some changes to how blog posts are scored recently. This is all part of our continuous evolution to try to keep things fair to members, both new and old. Handing out … (72 comments)
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activerain features: Localism.com photo uploads - update - 12/30/06 04:16 PM
This is an update to the post Upload regional photos to Localism.com and earn points!
Based on member comments we made a couple of quick changes to the photo upload capability on the consumer portal Localism.com
Photos are now being automatically resized to a maximum of 800x600 upon upload, since full size … (36 comments)
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activerain features: What is Localism? - 12/18/06 03:23 PM
For several months we've been talking about how we are going to construct a consumer facing side to ActiveRain. There has been a lot of speculation on what form this would take, so we decided to give our members a sneak peak into the ongoing development efforts at Localism.com We are still several … (72 comments)
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activerain features: New group features - 12/07/06 03:46 PM
Since we put up the beta of the groups functionality about a week and a half ago, we've steadily launched features and enhancements and have quite a few more coming early tomorrow morning. So here's a rundown of things that have been added since we put up the initial beta or … (57 comments)
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activerain features: Major ActiveRain feature release - Tuesday morning - 11/26/06 05:39 PM
We are doing a large release of new features on ActiveRain.com very early Tuesday morning (4:00 am PST). The main item in this release will be the beta launch of Groups on ActiveRain.
For several months it has become very clear that for ActiveRain to continue growing there needs to be a way for … (42 comments)
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activerain features: A couple of ActiveRain changes - 11/09/06 10:42 AM
Early this morning we put up several small enhancements to the ActiveRain system. Ben pushes them live at about 4:00 am well before I'm awake, so I'm just now writting the post about them.
1. We added a hit counter to blogs as suggested by numerous people. This hit counter displays at … (39 comments)
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activerain features: New blog categories and regional blog display - 10/21/06 01:50 PM
About 3:00 am PST the proposed blog category changes went into effect. Instead of the previous 5 categories there are two main categories, "For Real Estate Professionals" and "For Consumers" each with a set of sub categories. This new category system is to help people efficiently find the posts they want … (21 comments)
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activerain features: Proposed blog category changes - 10/19/06 02:13 PM
Based on feedback we are going to try to be more pro-active in getting members involved in updates to the system before we make them. This will prevent people from being so surprised when something changes and also get feedback before implementing a change.
One of the changes we plan to make … (38 comments)
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activerain features: Associate blog groups - 10/08/06 08:00 PM
This morning we made a couple changes to a feature that many members never knew existed but judging from the reaction many members rely on. That feature is called "associate" blogs. Under your profile you can create groups that you can add member's to, in ActiveRain speak these are associate groups. … (19 comments)
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activerain features: Blog bookmarking - 10/03/06 12:48 AM
Several members asked for an easy way to bookmark posts to read later, so we just implemented it...
Now at the bottom of each blog post next to the rating control a "Bookmark" icon will appear (if logged in).
Clicking on the "Bookmark" icon will add the post to your onsite bookmarks and … (38 comments)
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activerain features: System downtime Thursday night 10:00 pm PST - 09/20/06 07:47 PM
We are going to be launched a cool search that will allow users to search blog entries, forums, and profiles Thursday (tomorrow). This release will require the site to be offline for about a half an hour as all of the existing content is indexed and is scheduled to take place at … (19 comments)
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activerain features: More updates to ActiveRain last night... - 09/19/06 12:43 PM
Some of you may have already noticed but we made several updates to ActiveRain last night. Here's a quick rundown of what they are...
1. We added two additional catagories that blog entries may be posted to "Advertising a Listing" and "Other Advertisement. While we didn't exactly intend for people to use the blogs … (34 comments)
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activerain features: Just pushed lots of new site updates - 09/11/06 09:24 PM
Ben just pushed up a big round of enhancements to our live servers. Here's a run-down of the major ones...
1. Added the last 10 (public) featured blog postings to the front page. A few people had commented that they had originally though ActiveRain was simply a real estate directory, so by … (12 comments)
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activerain features: Geo targetting featured profiles on home page - 09/10/06 02:39 PM
I just thought I'd let people know ahead of time of a change that will be going into effect early this week, so we don't get hundreds of support emails saying something is broken. We are going to try targeting the featured profiles displayed on the front page to the state the … (13 comments)
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activerain features: Rate this blog post - 08/31/06 12:34 PM
Roberta Murphy mentioned in a blog post this morning that she just noticed a new control at the bottom of each blog post (when logged in) titled "Rate this blog".
It's not actually new, it's been there all along, we just renamed it from "Do you find this post interesting?" It gives … (12 comments)
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activerain features: Added new profile type (Real Estate Media) - 08/15/06 04:44 PM
We went ahead and added an addition profile type to the network, "Real Estate Media". We thought it would be a good idea to get members of the real estate media involved with the network. We're already seeing examples of where the commentary from our members is being picked up by more … (7 comments)
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activerain features: Scoring evolution: Blog post scoring changes - 08/11/06 03:43 PM
We are constantly evolving how we award points in order to reward the members who make the best contributions to the growth of the network. We have decided to change the awarding of points for blog posts from being an automatic process (200 pts for every post) to a manual process done by us and … (41 comments)
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activerain features: Brio Realty integrates with the ActiveRain Real Estate Network - 08/08/06 11:01 AM
Just the other day we found another interesting use for the network. One of our customers Brio Realty has an IDX style home search on their web site. Brio wanted the ability to have their top agents displayed in various communities, cities, and counties that are part of their home search.
We … (10 comments)
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activerain features: ActiveRain - Forums are now live - 07/20/06 09:39 PM
We just launched discussion forums on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. These forums are accessable anywhere you are on the site via a link title "Forums" on the near the top of the screen. There are currently about 20 different discussion forums on various topics ranging from "Introductions" to "Search Engine … (5 comments)
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activerain features: ActiveRain - Blogging categories and groups - 07/20/06 08:40 PM
We just put up a new feature on the network to try and solve some of the clutter in the blogging section. We added 3 blog groups:
1. Group blog for real estate professionals (Read posting guidelines...)
2. Group blog for consumers (Read posting guidelines...)
3. Regional news and information (Read posting … (15 comments)
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activerain features: ActiveRain integrates with Google Base - 07/19/06 08:02 AM
We just finished implementing another way to help members of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network promote themselves and their businesses online. As of this morning we are now submitting profiles of members (real estate agents and brokers) into one of Google's newest services, Google Base (beta).
What is google base?
To quote Google, "Google Base is … (41 comments)
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activerain features: More ActiveRain updates - 07/16/06 10:22 PM
Our developer Ben, just put up a bunch of new updates to the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. Pretty much all of them are based on feedback we recieved during the last week.
1. This last week we made a change so members only recieved points for 3 blog posts within a 24 hour … (24 comments)
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activerain features: ActiveRain blogging updates - 07/12/06 01:23 PM
As discussed in a previous post "The blog dumping epidemic" we implemented several changes to the blogging in an attempt to solve some issues brought up by our members. We implemented a limit of posts within a 24 hour period a member will recieve points for. We also implemented a cool feature … (29 comments)
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activerain features: The blog dumping epidemic - 07/09/06 08:01 PM
I'm sure some of our members have noticed this. Occasionally a new member to the network will decide to essentially copy and paste the entire contents of an offsite blog or website into many posts on ActiveRain. While it's their blog and we want to let them do what they want … (58 comments)
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activerain features: Forums on their way - 06/30/06 12:50 PM
One of the next things we're going to add to the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, is discussion forums. Initially this will simply be a list of public forums but then will expand to allow users to create their own forums both public and private. We're trying to put together a list … (9 comments)
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activerain features: Blogging feature updates - 06/30/06 12:15 PM
During the past couple days we've made several improvements to the blogging engine which we launched on Monday.
1. We now have feeds going out to all the major blog search engines (google-blogs, Technorati, Blogdigger, etc), there's about 15 in all. It may take them several days or weeks to get … (4 comments)
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activerain features: Blogging tools added to Your Network - 06/27/06 07:04 PM
Members now have the ability to keep their own blog associated with their member profile on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. This gives us yet another way to promote our businesses and share information.
Blogs, or web-logs have quickly become one of the most popular and successful means to ways to … (9 comments)
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