Blogging Platform Directory
A directory of blogging platforms available to real estate professionals can be found here:
Websites mentioned in my presentations
Presentations:
- Introduction to Web2.0: Understanding Consumer Expectations
- Understanding Your Online Competition
- Building Community Using Blog Technologies (2 hour version)
Introduction to Web2.0: Understanding Consumer Expectations
Background:
What is web2.0:
Understanding Your Online Competition
1. Who is the competition:
- Newspapers: NYTimes
- Consumers
- Online brokerages: Redfin
- Technology companies: Zillow
- Example of cooperative competition: Trulia and Silvar
2. Understanding Consumer Expectations in Web2.0:
- Rain City Guide
- Amazon
- Netflix
- tags: del.icio.us
- Trulia listings widget
- Altos Market Conditions Widget
- MyBlogLog
- Google Reader
- mobile Zillow
- My Yahoo
- Myspace
3. How Companies are Changing Expectations
- Realtor.com
- mls.ca
- Properazzi
- Zillow
- Homethinking
- Redfin
- ActiveRain (invite to join)
- Property Shark
- Altos Research
4. How Are Communication Tools Changing
5. How are Real Estate Communities Forming
- Moving to Seattle on Rain City Guide
- ActiveRain (invite to join)
Building Community Using Blog Technologies (2 hour version)
Why are you here?
- See Introduction to Web2.0 Presentation
What are the benefits of blogging
- Google search: [moving to seattle]
- Moving to Seattle
- To Landlords, Sellers
- Bad MLS photo
- blogTO
- Long Tail
How do you engage consumers
- Educational
- Expert
- Interviews
- Opinions
- Updates
- Market Conditions
- Informative
- Events
- Humor
- Photos
- Links
- Plagiarism (don’t want to give this site a link)
- Flickr
Getting Serious
