Category: Social Networking

Infographic: How We Work – Mobile, Authentic, Engaged

At Inman News, we talk a lot about workstyle and how much has changed in just the last few years. How real estate professionals work, has been a fundamental theme of Agent Reboot and Real Estate Connect.Why? There is an absolute fundamental shift in how we do business, that has occurred because of technology, mobile [...]

Have You Heard About Facebook’s Redesign?

Facebook doesn’t make many big changes quickly. Since it’s launch in 2004, with each new change comes a wave of people complaining or asking for it to go back to “the old way.” It looks like it may be that time again.

According to VentureBeat, Facebook’s developers are currently in the process of testing a new [...]

How Facebook Is Making It Easier to Maintain Your Pages

In the last few weeks, Facebook has made some great new updates available to page admins. They are definitely making it easy for page admins to get the help and assistance they need, get their questions answered, and make their page as successful as can be. In the past, when a page owner was looking [...]

Foursquare Marries Quora | Localmind

Foursquare just surpassed the 10 million user mark. Facebook Places has become extremely popular quickly. Whether you “get” it or not people like checking in. A lot.
Quora has recently exploded onto the scene as a new breed of Q and A site with a social and transparent approach. People go to the web with questions, [...]

Work Smarter – 2 Hot New Social Tools Announced from HootSuite

I received a really exciting email in my inbox this week – there are some awesome new developments that just rolled out for HootSuite.
As you probably know by now, I am a huge HootSuite fan. In my opinion, it is the best product, hands down, for managing multiple social media streams, for managing your social [...]

Your Facebook Business Page is Worthless

Guest post by Maura Neill, CRS
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking at Inman’s Agent Reboot in Atlanta. The topic: Facebook Business Pages. The title of my presentation: Your Facebook Business Page is Worthless. It’s a little unnerving to take the stage and to start off by looking into all those eager [...]

3 Lesser Known Ways to Use LinkedIn for Real Estate

Many call LinkedIn the “set it and forget it” social media. It’s a great professional network, but not as fast-paced as Twitter, and not as fun and interactive as Facebook. But, we all love LinkedIn for the professional quality it brings to the table. There are however three really cool things about LinkedIn that not [...]

Facebook Tip: How to Post a Custom Update

There are tons of great little tips and tricks to making the most of your Facebook page. Throughout the next couple weeks I will be sharing quick and easy tips that you may or may not know about to enhance your Facebook page.

One of my favorite tricks that surprisingly a lot of people don’t know [...]

5 Secrets to Being Successful on Twitter

There has been a lot of friendly competition around the Inman News office lately around Twitter – how many followers each of us has and why. In between the laughter, and joking, it’s made me think – why do some people get more followers faster than others? Why are certain things re-tweeted more than others? [...]

Why You Should Use Social Media to Market Your Vacation Rentals

Guest blog post by Daniel Weisman
Social networks like Facebook and Twitter can be great tools to cost-effectively increase your vacation rental bookings. These services are free to use but difficult to use effectively, so many people give up before they give social networks enough time to yield results.

Yet investing time and effort in developing a [...]