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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!
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This coming Tuesday (January 19, 2021), I have the opportunity to take you on a virtual tour of some more AMAZING cloud-based tools that you'll want to know about. This is via the ActiveRain Zoom Webinar series that happens every Tuesday at 2:00pm EASTERN.My theme is "Leveraging the Cloud". You m...
01/16/2021
The buzz around the site these days is about Tiny!! tiny?? yes, tiny, what is "Tiny?"Tiny, short for TinyMCE is the plugin used for us to create the body of our blog posts. The editor has a toolbar with all kinds of buttons for editing and formatting. The new version is very similar to the old on...
12/02/2020
Well 2020 is a very tough year and you might add ActiveRain problems to the list of things that we aren't happy about. I'm not sure if anyone has figured out what went wrong, but all the June posts went POOF and perhaps never to return. Though AR staff has commented that they found the lost data,...
07/17/2020
PreambleYes, you are correct... this is a tech tip Thursday post on a Friday. Furthermore, if you are having a feeling of deja vu, confirmed on the second count also! This post was part of the ActiveRain site June amnesia incident. 2020 is just full of little surprises for us :) Anyhow, had I be...
07/17/2020
I love using shortcut keys! There are certain frequently used commands and tools that are made instantly available to you when you invest just a little time in learning the shortcut key combinations. Today, I'm going to highlight a key that is useful for Windows users and that is the "Windows Ke...
06/18/2020
So I hear you've been spending more time on YouTube than you used to. (hahaha don't deny it! We all have! #newreality #covid19) So in this post, I figured some YouTube pro level tips would be an excellent topic to cover. Let's make the best use of our time on YouTube! :)    Pro Tip #1 - Open in ...
04/25/2020
WAIT! Don't LEAVE me!! We work very hard to get eyeballs on our blog posts and web sites, so then why are you sending people away once you get them?? You are not intentionally doing this, but if you aren't aware, you might in fact be doing this. Whenever you are creating a hyperlink, you have tw...
02/15/2020
Images are very important to help your web pages engage your audience. The combination of informative text along with appropriate photos and illustrations is the formula for a captivating post. Some of the biggest amateur mistakes of creating web pages is related to working with images. Doing it...
01/15/2020
My annual custom is to change my computer desktop wallpaper along with the flip of the calendar to the new year. In the snapshot below, you can see my desktop update just completed. The desktop wallpaper in this case is a composition of a couple of recent photos along with a mini calendar. I fin...
01/01/2020
I have recently been going back and reviewing my old posts as I plan my schedule of upcoming new posts. The more I look, the more I realize that the methods I described were for how things used to be and so those methods no longer work! Today's post is one of such needed updates: How to embed vi...
12/26/2019
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