Really?

I just received the following friend request. I can’t say there’s anything I admire about this tactic, and I can’t believe that it could in any way be effective. Have any of you ever received something like this? Maybe I’m behind the trend here, but I wish there were 75 different ways to mark this [...]

Chat Roulette: Another Form of Social Media Moolah? [VIDEO]

To skip straight to the video documentation of my scientific research, click here. I first heard about Chat Roulette about a month  ago. Since then, about 20% of the people I know have tried it out at least once. For the uninitiated, Chat Roulette is an even mixture of exciting, random, creepy, and desperate. You [...]

Should Fan Page Owners Send Company Updates?

Not too long ago, two friends of mine opened up their own Real Estate Brokerage in the NYC Metro area. Since then, they have shown all the signs of doing everything right: business plans, heavy recruiting, social media engagement, and so on. It was only natural that, in order to show my support, I join [...]

Web 3.0 Smackdown!

It seems that Web 3.0, alongside what 3.0 will ultimately be, is increasingly becoming the topic du jour. Steven Groves, author of The Social Media Bible, is hosting a Lucha Libre themed Web 3.0 Smackdown event on Tuesday, November 24th at 1:00PM EST. You can tune into the mayhem at BlogTalkRadio’s website. Participants will include [...]

Attention all Rental Agents!

While Rental Agents only exist in a handful of metropolitan areas, this applies to anyone who has ever had trouble getting their property rented out. While I was surfing the web, I came across a pretty nifty site. Rentshout is a site specifically tailored to those looking to get their property rented fast. While most [...]

Death of a Social Media Guru

The advent of Social Media, alongside its subsequent utility in the professional arena, has  been the topic of much conversation over the last 18 months. As a matter of fact, no Real Estate conference this side of Mars hasn’t had a panel discussion or outright speaker’s session on how agents can use Social Media to [...]

Protecting Yourself from Facebook Identity Theft

This is a re-post of what I wrote on my company’s blog: My company is holding an Intro to Social Media class this evening (with yours truly as the instructor). Only 55% of the people who registered for the session are members of Facebook, and 45% indicated that they didn’t belong to any social networks [...]

Facebook Connect mashes with Digg

Facebook Connect launched it’s mashup with Digg today in yet another brilliant move by the facebook staff. Facebook members can now log into the popular social news site using their Facebook logins if they are not already members of Digg. If they are members, they can simply connect their two accounts.