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This is a guest post from Heather Whaling, cross-posted from prTini. Last week, Google make a fairly techy-sounding announcement. If you’re like me, you saw it, but didn’t pay a lot of attention. As I re-read the announcement today and some corresponding blog posts, the light went on. I get it now. The new “authorship” [...]

If there’s one thing I hear most often about social media, it’s that it can get overwhelming fast. (Here are a few tips if this is you.) Whether it’s a blog, Facebook, Twitter, or a Ning site, there are many, many ways to connect with friends, colleagues and prospects, and there are even more tools [...]

Yesterday, I had a quick conversation on Twitter with Jonathan Saar from the Training Factor. He mentioned how happy he was that his site now appears on page one of Google search results for the term “multifamily training.” That’s pretty exciting, because that’s the exact business that the Training Factor is in. I’m sure it’s [...]

Do you have a self-hosted blog or website running on WordPress? If so, make sure it’s updated to the current version (2.8.4). (You should see the version that you’re currently running when you login to the Dashboard.) There is an ongoing attack on sites running older versions of the software, so it’s important to upgrade [...]

Doterati held its first event — the Social Media Breakfast — yesterday, and it was great to see everyone who came out. Rob Williams from OrangeJack gave a great intro to all the various social media tools available, I said some things about the basics of blogging and the business case behind it, and Mark [...]

“Should we have a property blog?” I get that question a lot. In a future post, I think I’ll have to go through some of the reasons why the answer is absolutely YES. If you have a property blog, or if you’ve thought about writing one, but don’t think you have enough ideas to write [...]

Then take two minutes to read through this presentation by Marta Kagan. Read every slide. If you’ve already seen it, then read it again: I think there’s more to the story for apartment companies (that’s why we’re here!), and I don’t agree with everything she says, but for the most part, I love it. I [...]