Check out the video we submitted for AAR’s Winter Conference Video Contest. If we win, we’re holding the first ever iPad re-gifting contest right here on the John Hall blog.
A couple of weeks back Jim received the following email about the DocuSign free trial offer. You only have until 3/7/11 if you want to take advantage of it. Dear James, As a proud partner in the REALTOR Benefits® Program, DocuSign is pleased to announce our first Truly Free Trial. This is the deal you…

Friday at the PV office, you are invited to attend the hands on, laptops open technology class on how to take advantage of embeddable content around the web. (Class details below) To me, embeddable means usable. When content has a button near it that says “embed” it’s a flag that anyone can use that content…

Update: View the MARS tag for current articles. Thanks NAR and FTC for making real estate agents Mortgage Assistance Relief Services (“MARS”) providers and requiring us to comply with the MARS Disclosures. I’m being facetious. What a mess. I’m only the messenger here to inform you that if you are the listing agent for a…

Today it goes live! ARMLS subscribers can search the Tucson MLS and Rocky Point homes for sale from within flexmls. Here is the official notice from flexAlert that speaks more to this. Mind the bold. On Wednesday, February 23, ARMLS® Subscribers will be able to access limited property data from the Tucson Association of REALTORS®…

This post is courtesy of a blast email sent to the zipForm 6 user group. The zipLogix® Developers have come up with some great new zipForm® 6 features, including two of our most often requested enhancements: the ability to highlight form text, and the ability to sort forms within a transaction. If you go into…
Nicole Nicolay created a good article that discusses the two categories of information we share online; curation and creation. If you’re a real estate agent strapped for time, your schedule probably gets along better with curation. In her article she says, A content creator is someone who identifies the “needs” within their audience and seeks…
Wondering why so many companies are driving traffic to facebook instead of their corporate web sites? Jeff Turner recently shared a post on twitter about facebook being the new .com. I thought the post was worth passing along because the author makes some good points about facebook versus a corporate web site. The best header…

Added 3.3.11: Here is updated MARS Disclosure information The first hot link contains the article written by the Commissioner and AAR’s Michelle Lind. It answers questions about real estate agents who negotiate Short Sales. The second link is the FTC’s publication about MARS. It’s the ‘short’ version (only 54 pages) because it doesn’t have the…