Keyword: active rain
ActiveRain sold, goodbye and a word of warning for users – Developing
ActiveRain has been sold The backstory is ActiveRain has officially been sold. Jonathan Washburn, co-founder and former (ousted according to sources) CEO of ActiveRain wrote on his blog on ActiveRain “Six amazing years after creating ActiveRain I’ve stepped down as ActiveRain CEO and I’m now focusing 100% of my business efforts on revolutionizing the daily deals industry through the DailyTicket community.” ...
Active Rain users switch to Posterous and stay
Real estate blogging has changed Real estate blog platform ActiveRain.com began as a vibrant free blogging community, but commenced to charging for various features years after its founding. They experienced a shift in culture over the year, but in 2010 went back on promises never to charge founding users, infuriating many of the very people that helped evangelize the community ...
ActiveRain goes back on promise, infuriates founding users
Real estate blogging platform and social network ActiveRain inadvertently made news last week when free blogging platform Posterous announced they would take aim directly at Active Rain by allowing users to import their content directly to Posterous. This week, Active Rain inadvertently makes for heated conversation again by going back on their promise to founding members (the first users of ...
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AG Flash Poll results – should Active Rainers switch to Posterous?
Last week, blogging platform Posterous announced they would be allowing content to be imported from real estate blogging platform ActiveRain and some people were defensive while others cheered. To learn what the true sentiment was (and not just the voices of those who felt extremely positively or negatively about it), we took an AG Flash Poll to get a sense ...
Which blogging format should a real estate agent choose?
WordPress & Blogger & TypePad, oh my! So, you have decided to embark into the addictive world of blogging and have been researching the options for where to host your blog site. After asking about and doing some Google searches you distill your list of options down to (most probably): Blogger, WordPress, ActiveRain, TypePad and Posterous Which is the best ...
ActiveRain, the Caligula of Real Estate or Real Estate Rain, You Choose
What is this, Caligula? I’ve seen people complaining about promoting your listings on ActiveRain. Long, lofty, self-righteous, and often poisonous diatribes about why you shouldn’t clutter up their experience with your incessant need to do business or make money- well screw them. I say be in business while they’re not. Chances are, if they unfriend, unfollow, or unsubscribe, they weren’t in ...
51 Top Ranking ActiveRain.com Real Estate Blogs
Active Rain Real Estate Bloggers Real Estate Blogging platform ActiveRain.com awards user points for various activities ranging from setting up a user profile to creating content, joining groups, or even commenting on other Active Rain blogs. While we don’t really know what the points-to-closings ratio is, we thought for curiosity sake, we would outline the user in each state that ...
Tensions Mount Between Agent Genius & Active Rain
International trouble brewing… Tensions this high haven’t been seen since the Cuban missle crisis and people on all sides are scrambling to find an amicable resolution. At 1:09 am CST on November 26, 2008, Qwitter.com notified both Benn Rosales, founder of AgentGenius.com and Lani Rosales, New Media Director of AgentGenius.com that ActiveRain.com CEO Jonathan Washburn was no longer following either ...
Localism Getting a Facelift?
Up to something… Seems that the fellas over at Active Rain are up to something… But this time, it’s with Localism. Just check out their new home page (screen shot above). Facelift or more… Is it just a facelift or is it something more? I don’t know for sure. But based on the information on the current home page, ...
I Don’t Care About You
What?? Did he just say that? Does he mean that? Or is he simply using a provocative headline to attract readers, first of all, and to set the mood for the post, the subtle shading and shaping that takes place to elicit specific feelings and the desired response from the audience. The answer, naturally, is both. Earlier this week I ...
Jumped The Shark? [Active Rain]
![Jumped The Shark? [Active Rain]](http://agbeat.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/fonze.jpg)
Active Rain came at the wrong time Active Rain came into my life at precisely the wrong time. I already had committed to writing my own blog, at that time on the RealTown platform, and couldn’t find a way to keep two blogs active simultaneously. (Times have changed a bit, given how thin I’ve become stretched the past year.) Some ...
Don’t Kill The Messenger
I opened my feed reader to find a well intentioned plea from Drew Meyers on the GeekEstate blog. He is making a request to the Re.net to refrain from personal attacks on blogs. The vitriol and name calling we are seeing lately isn’t limited in its direction to individual bloggers. I read another post from a “real estate instructor & ...
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