blogging: Support for video and multimedia on ActiveRain - 02/28/07 03:14 PM
As of this morning we've made some adjustments to our platform that should allow members to more easily include, video, podcasts and other multimedia in their blog posts. This had been one of the common complaints with our platform and we are working to solve it as we work towards the … (34 comments)
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blogging: 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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blogging: Posting To Localism - 01/17/07 06:54 PM
True to its name, Localism is about location and it's about consumers. To post to localism you've got to include both types of designation. Write out your post. When you're done be sure to categorize it correctly.
Be sure to mark the post visibility as public.
Check the box "For Consumers." … (118 comments)
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blogging: 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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blogging: Carnival of Real Estate - 22nd edition - 12/12/06 12:31 PM
It appears as though the carnival has finally come to town on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. On Wednesday the post submissions started with a trickle, and I started thinking to myself, "this isn't going to be that bad". Boy was I wrong, Saturday hit and it seemed as though everytime … (24 comments)
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blogging: Reminder: ActiveRain is hosting the Carnival of Real Estate - 12/09/06 07:35 PM
Just a reminder to everybody, ActiveRain will be hosting the carnival of real estate next monday on this blog. This means that I'll be spending most of my Sunday reading through real estate related blog posts. So, I'm expecting a lot of good posts from all the "rainers" to give those "outside bloggers" … (23 comments)
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blogging: ActiveRain week in review #3 - 11/20/06 04:17 PM
This is the third edition of the ActiveRain week in review where we'll highlight some of the most discussed topics and blog posts made during the last week. You can find an archive of the past week in reviews here. Feel free to repost the ActiveRain week in review on your non ActiveRain … (35 comments)
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blogging: ActiveRain week in review #2 - 11/14/06 05:38 PM
Last week we did the first ActiveRain week in review to highlight particular events and posts during the previous week on ActiveRain. I was so busy at the NAR conference I didn't have a chance to do one for this last week but I noticed that Bryant Tutas was kind enough … (9 comments)
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blogging: ActiveRain week in review #1 - 11/06/06 12:36 PM
I thought that it would be kinda cool to do a little recap of different things that happened on ActiveRain and blog themes that seemed to be running through the week. With so many posts getting made and 10-20 being featured each day A LOT of great posts get missed. I'll … (38 comments)
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blogging: Reaching Out - 10/23/06 05:11 PM
For some time now ActiveRain has been working toward bettering your experience on The Network and helping you connect with each other. Through your suggestions we have made a very large list of updates and changes. We continually work on this and as we see it this is a never ending … (25 comments)
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blogging: Blog categories - Where should I put my post? - 10/21/06 02:33 PM
Here's a description of the various categories blog posts can be put assist others in finding them. There is no requirement to add a post to a category, or sub category. If you don't feel you post fits in one of the categories don't add it, people can still view your … (34 comments)
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blogging: 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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blogging: Changes Coming To Blog Limits. - 10/16/06 08:28 PM
Trying to keep up?
There will be an update to our blogging engine coming down the pipe. Starting Sunday post point limits will be set at 10 posts per week scored at 200 points each. We welcome you posting more, automated scoring will be limited to 10 per week. The scheduled … (63 comments)
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blogging: Changing blog titles and other ActiveRain settings - 09/11/06 09:37 PM
I'm not sure if many people are aware but it is easy to change the title of your personal blog on ActiveRain. When a user account is created the default title for the blog is "firstname's blog". Even many of the frequent posters still have their title set to the default, … (9 comments)
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blogging: Tribute to September 11th on ActiveRain - 09/11/06 01:18 PM
If you haven't noticed yet, we've decided to feature blog postings by our members about the memories, thoughts and life changes caused by September 11th. We thought that it would be a fitting tribute to the victims of this tragedy.
-Matt Heaton
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blogging: Carnival of Real Estate - Reminder - 09/08/06 09:41 PM
Just a reminder this weeks Carnival of Real Estate is being held over at the Real Estate Tomato Blog. The deadline to submit your best post for possible inclusion is midnight on Saturday. I hope to see lots of good material from bloggers on AR submitted as it's a great way … (0 comments)
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blogging: How do we choose featured blog posts - 09/07/06 07:19 AM
I got posed this question. How do we decide which blog posts to give that little gold star and make featured. First off what is a featured blog post?
Featured blog posts appear prominently on the "Blog Dashboard" and we try to rotate the list, so that we display a full new … (9 comments)
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blogging: 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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blogging: Blog scoring updates - 08/31/06 11:59 AM
Ok, so we tried it and we heard from you, a lot. We tried going to a system of manually scoring every blog post in an attempt to stop to people posting garbage for points, and to control spam. It actually seemed to work fairly well in that respect, but it opened … (10 comments)
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blogging: Blog carnival for AR Members - 08/29/06 12:14 PM
A couple days ago, Jim Cronin the blogger behind the Real Estate Tomato made a post outlining a blog carnival of sorts he is running for ActiveRain members only. The basic idea is that he wants ActiveRain members to write an article about successes they've had through blogging and he'll highlight the … (0 comments)
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blogging: Duplicate content and established real estate bloggers - 08/27/06 04:27 PM
During the last week or two I had been very glad to see a couple fairly established real estate bloggers such as Jim Cronin (Real Estate Tomato), Joel Burslem (Future of Real Estate Marketing), Greg Swann (BloodHound Blog) beginning to post on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. This morning due to … (11 comments)
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blogging: Blogging by the numbers - 08/15/06 02:03 PM
Based off a comment in the last blog post I decided to pull together a some statistics ranking various bloggers on the site in a couple catagories. Just for fun...
Most commented on (Avg, Min 5 posts):
ActiveRain's Blog (13.6 comments per post)Bill French's Blog (6.3 comments per post)Bryant Tutas's Blog (5.9 comments … (7 comments)
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blogging: 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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blogging: Blog comment spam - 07/22/06 09:09 AM
This issue has been brought up by several members who have been tired of other members leaving short, non informative comments on their blog posts in what appears to be an attempt to gain points. The has a detramental effect of cluttering up the blog postings and also causes the poster to … (40 comments)
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blogging: 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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blogging: 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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blogging: 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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blogging: Dealing with SPAM on ActiveRain - 07/01/06 11:17 PM
One of the issues that we knew from we'd have to deal with from the outset of building this network is how to deal with spam within the site. There is often fine line when it comes to classifying what is spam, especially on a site with a central focus on marketing. But, … (10 comments)
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blogging: 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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blogging: "Blog Topic": Week #1 - 06/28/06 01:45 AM
Many real estate agents want to have their own blog but often are at a loss for good topics to write about. So, to try and spur some interesting posts and commentary within the ActiveRain blogs I thought we would try something a little unique...
Every week we will post a “Blog Topic” on the … (34 comments)
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blogging: 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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blogging: Shout out to the bloggers - 06/27/06 01:30 AM
I just wanted to recognize the various offsite bloggers who have wrote about the ActiveRain Real Estate Network in the past month. These people have been influential in the early growth of our network and we hope that they'll find some time to participate in the blogging which we have added … (3 comments)
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