The power of the people. Active Rain is a powerful network of people. With more than 32,000 members, this is a huge representation of our Industry, and it’s still growing in leaps and bounds. Is Active Rain really the On-line National Association of Realtors and Affiliates? It seems to me that when real issues need to be
ActiveRain Has Comment Linking? Where’s Yours? (This post is a bit long but I think it’s worth the read…especially if you plant comments in the rain) Today I saw a few comments on ActiveRain that simply shocked me. They honestly left me in awe. Comments on an ActiveRain post written way back in 2008. Over
The ActiveRain Guide is “FINALLY” available but will probably never be completed. (LOL) It’s taken nearly two years for this project to get to this point… let me explain. When I joined ActiveRain back in February of 2007, there were no manuals, very few tutorials, only about 20,000 members, and I had no idea where
ActiveRain University – How To Maximize Your ActiveRain Blogs with Zillow Join us for a FREE Webinar on March 29 Hey Everyone, just wanted to let you all know that Sara Bonert (Director of Broker Services from Zillow) will be coming to ARU and sharing some tools you can use to bring greater value to
Have you ever wondered how other people find your Blog when you have written a post about them? How do they do that? I used to ask myself this question all the time. Many of the comments on my Blog lately have asked me, “Where do you come up with all this stuff?” This post
How Cool is your Facebook Page? Do you have a Facebook page or just a Facebook profile? There are so many people that ask me how to create a Cool Facebook page? They want to incorporate some or all of their AR stuff, or show off a brand and flaunt their wares. It use to
Twitter has a new feature called “Fast Follow“ which allows you to follow people on Twitter via SMS (short Message Service) and you don’t even need to have a Twitter account to do this. I know that many Real Estate Industry professionals are still trying to get their arms around the concept of how to
How do you add “Widgets” to your Active Rain Blog? You can only add them to either your profile page, your posts, or in the right side column on your main Blog page. These instructions are to add a Widget to your Blog under your photo, the same as you see on mine. The first step is to select
How To Add a .PDF File To Your Blog Post or Website Once you’ve learned to add photos, embed video and audio files, create hyper-links and anchor text etc, inevitably you’ll want to know how you can add a .pdf file to your Blog post. An Adobe Acrobat .PDF (Portable Document Format) file is a
The ActiveRain Featured Blog Post – I get asked everyday about the ActiveRain Featured Blog post. The wide variety of questions range from “Who Is Featuring The Posts” to “Why Are The Same Members Featured over and over again?” Well, it’s taken me 2 1/2 years working here to finally write a post about the