Craig's Classroom

Follow me
By
Education & Training - Tech Training for You!
Craig's Classroom Blog is a series of short technology articles for Real Estate Professionals. You will learn how to work with and improve on your online points of presence. Craig teaches about practical technology usage that you will find useful in your daily workflow. Work smarter!
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Google Maps is an amazing tool. Besides the regular map, there are other modes you can enter such as Google Earth and Google Street view. In street view, you can look around in 360 degrees as if you were actually there. There's a pretty good chance you have discovered street view already. But in ...
01/08/2022
If you've blogged on ActiveRain for any length of time, you'll notice something very different than a blog that you have on your regular website. The comments you get on your regular website blog is probably 99.9% spam and put right into the trash. And the 0.1% of REAL comments are probably few a...
12/03/2021
update November 2021note: the workarounds in this post are no longer necessary thanks to the AR dev team making the needed corrections!! The "clear formatting" point below is not a bug however and is still a good consideration for you to take a look at.-----How's it going there bloggers? If you f...
08/20/2021
We've seen some very nice improvements on the ActiveRain site in recent months. The presentation of the site is taking on a more modern and polished look. Thank you to the AR team for working on these things!Meanwhile, for those using the site frequently (i.e. this means the reader of this post),...
06/21/2021
Inserting photos or other graphics into our blog posts is an essential step to creating a presentation that is compelling. The textual content is also essential, but can you imagine picking up a magazine that had no photos in it at all? How much better to attract our attention when images are add...
04/30/2021
Who doesn't enjoy a day at the park? Silver Lake Park is located on the north shore of Staten Island. If you need an outdoor getaway, there are all kinds of things to do here! Located in the center of the park is a good sized lake. Trails go all the way around the lake for running and walking. It...
04/10/2021
It's a retail strategy. You know the one...Let's price the potato chips at $3.99 because psychologically 3 dollars sounds better than 4 dollars (even though it is really being sold for 4 dollars). That works fine for potato chips. However, is that .99 strategy equally as good for selling a house ...
03/12/2021
It has been reported quite a few times in Q&A of having a half blank page when editing a new post. I had seen that happen a few times in my case but only rarely. But what is a person to do if this happens to them? How can they finish a new post when they can only see part of the page?Well, yester...
02/17/2021
One of the things you realize early on in the ActiveRain community is that you can expect comments on the posts that you create. These are real people making comments and interacting with you. If you have had any blog out there in cyberspace, for example on a WordPress site, you quickly realize t...
02/12/2021
One the interesting facets of marketing ourselves on the internet is that someone can meet us online first before they ever see us in person. Having a blog is a way for us to share our expertise and help a person come to know and trust us. Letting them SEE who we are helps fill a hole in the who...
02/05/2021
Ambassador
699,799

Craig Daniels

Technology Instructor/Project Consultant
local_phone(646) 450-2728
Contact The Author

Since 2010, Craig's Classroom blog has been the place to come for short technology lessons - here on ActiveRain I focus on technologies for real estate professionals - please subscribe if you want to catch future posts! :)

How To Create an Effective Blog Signature

Your blog signature is what shows at the bottom of every blog post. Make it count!

Are You Using Google Photos?

Google photos is a cloud based service to edit and organize all your library of pictures.

Leveraging the Cloud

Cloud services are extremely useful. Learn some of the main providers and how you can benefit.

Check out a listing of my most recent posts

Find me on Facebook