Weekly Roundup
This week we’ve got one for the mobile people, one for the bloggers, the brokers, and the Google-obsessed:
• The NYC Best App contest we mentioned a couple weeks back is now open for worldwide voting (via Epicenter):
“New York City today asked people all over the world to pick the best new mobile and web apps that make the Big Apple “more transparent, accessible and accountable. NYC BigApps contest entrants mash official information from the NYC Data Mine with outside data and services. The hopes is to create a cool and useful app that will win the developers some of the $20,000 in taxpayer money offered as prizes.”
• A short and sweet post on what makes a crappy blog article (via Future of RE Technology blog):
“1. Be working late at night and get an idea to write a post just because you haven’t written one in a while. Write the short post about an important subject and don’t check for grammar or spelling errors. 3. Write a stupid call to action at the end.”
• Real Estate Tomato gives advice to brokers looking for their website to be the cornerstone of their marketing and sales plan:
“It is time for brokers to take back the technological aspects of the business back and win once and for all the Internet battle with regard to real estate.”
• Katie Lance of FOREM reviews the latest and greatest Google product releases:
“Take a picture of a book, a store, a landmark and that picture translates into a search for that object. It is still in its infancy and only available on the Android (but the rumor is that it will available soon on Google Chrome) but think about the possibilities for real estate search. What if this worked with homes on the market? You could snap a photo and instantly see how long it had been on the market, details about the home, listing agent, virtual tours, and more.”
Tags: blog techniques, broker websites, mobile applications, new Google products, real estate data.
on Dec 18th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Thanks for the mention! Great site!
Katie
on Jan 5th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Hi Jackie,
I’m fairly new to blogging…I came to this site to get info and pricing on neighborhood content for my website. By stopped in to see the blog. I struggle with creating unique conent and topics that are so well covered…but a post discussing and pointing other high quality articles is a great solution. Thanks.
PS…how do I get pricing info?
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Hi Bill,
We appreciate you stopping by!
Everyone who has entered or thought about entering the realm of blogging knows it can be a huge time vacuum. I am reminded of this every time I get a blank stare from anyone in our office who has a strong opinion but is too busy coding or standardizing to spend time writing.
Linking to good articles is you’ve read is a good solution as you’ve said. It keeps the relevant content flowing. If you implement something similar on your blog, you may also consider giving your market’s perspective on the most well-covered stories. You can localize anything. And search engines will love the hyperlocal content on your site.
For pricing, give us a call at (646) 747-4273 or shoot an email to sales@onboardinformatics.com and our someone from our sales team will be happy to chat with you.
on Jan 17th, 2010 at 2:09 am
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