The Official ActiveRain Blog
A blog about the current happenings on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. What's new, where we're going, updates and more...
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2006
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Related to the drive crash we had a while back our hosting provider apparently followed some restore procedure incorrectly when restoring the drive which lead to a data corruption issue that crashed the system again this afternoon. There still is an issue with Forums that we're working on. We'r...
11/10/2006
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Our database pretty much ground to a halt this morning for technical reasons (humorously related to something called "vacuuming"). We think things are back to normal now. Sorry about the down time!
11/10/2006
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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 the bottom...
11/09/2006
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Those of you who have been waiting for it will be happy to know that today we've added a preview button to the blog composition bar. Now you will be able to preview a post before you save it or post it. Please know that previewing your post will not save it.Thank you.Caleb Mardini
11/07/2006
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Blogging is an important form of communication. It is important to get your message out to both consumers and your colleagues. Many of the active bloggers on ActiveRain absolutely love it. If you are unfamiliar with blogging it can take some time getting used to it and understanding it. I re...
11/06/2006
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When you are logged in, or directly after activation, you can "edit" your profile. There is a link on the left when logged in that reads "My Profile (edit)" You need to click on the word edit. Using the edit function you can edit the various fields of your profile. Fill out as many fields as pos...
11/06/2006
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Signing Up at ActiveRainTo sign up to become a member of the ActiveRain Community please go to the link from the front page that says "Join The Network." Or click on this link below.On the first page of the sign up form you will see a page with the following:Profile Type: Choose how you will be ...
11/06/2006
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Welcome to The ActiveRain Real Estate Network. A community devoted to enabling real estate industry professionals by helping them to connect with each other and with their clients. This guide is a work in progress dedicated to helping you quickly get familiar with the various resources available...
11/06/2006
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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 try to do a "week in rev...
11/06/2006
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Bob Stewart of Brio Realty sent me a link to an article he just found today on NAR's website realtor.org. It's called "A web 2.0 Sampler: YouTube, ActiveRain and iTV" and like the title implies, it describes three web 2.0 companies that are impacting the online real estate space. It feels prett...
11/03/2006
