Ever get the feeling that Facebook is hiding things from you? That people are talking about things that you don’t see on your Facebook wall? If so, it’s because YOU have not taken advantage of Facebook’s enhanced List feature. The Facebook wall, up until recently, was a riot of information. Posts from people that you…
In these difficult economic times, finding free ways to do every day tasks is always welcomed. But, there are so many choices that deciding which one to use can be a problem. While looking around the Internet the other day I ran across what may be the Mother Lode and Be All End All website…
On October 1st, 2011, I’ll be walking on Kaanapali Beach on Maui. While I am doing that, those of you with custom Facebook fan page “tabs” that are not hosted on a server that has a SSL Certificate will find that their expensive custom tab is no longer displayed. For the rest of us, this…
I attended Real Estate Bar Camp sponsored by the Contra Costa Young People’s Network yesterday along with several hundred other real estate professionals. Most were from the San Francisco Bay Area but people from Sacramento and Southern California were also in attendance. Also present was Andy Kaufman who is credited with “porting” over the Bar…
On March 11, 2011 Facebook was supposed to kill the ability for new fan pages to add a Static FBML tab to fan pages. For reasons known only to them they did not actually kill that ability for a few weeks. You might be saying so what or who cares right about now. And, I…
After several false starts, 2011 has been labeled the “Year of the Tablet”. (Here is a link to a Google search on that topic: the year of the tablet: https://realtytechbytes.com/Tablet) When the iPad first came out there was a big rush on the part of iPhone developers to port their apps onto the new and…
You can’t avoid it anymore. It’s everywhere you look. Television commercials for all sorts of products tell you to do it, magazine ads feature the logo and the promise of benefits if you will just do this one thing. Every one you know is there already and recent events in the Middle East have shown…
The other day I was having a conversation with a new client (I consult with small businesses to help them market their business via social media) about using social tools in their business. When I asked them why they wanted to use social media. I got a strange look from them. They asked me to…
It’s that time of the year! Thanksgiving is only 10 days away and that means that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are 11 and 14 days away as well. I shouldn’t have to tell you what they are, but if you need a refresher, here are links to Wikipedia articles that will fill you in…
Where did my day go? I just sat down to check my email and now it’s dinner time. Along the way I stopped into Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and before I knew it the day was gone. Sound familiar? For many of us the allure of social networking is the ease by which we can…
