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The Ten Commandments of Twitter Usage

April 1, 2009 By Matthew Dollinger 4 Comments
Twitter Ten commandments

The 10 Commandments of Twitter Usage – Real Estate Version

Leadership: What You Could Learn from Dan Hesse

March 30, 2009 By Matthew Dollinger 1 Comment

In 2007 Sprint/Nextel appointed Dan Hesse CEO of the customer-service-flailing company. Since then, Dan and his marketing team have worked across all different forms of Media to deliver a message of customer service and “biz-love” to clients across the nation.

The Holy Grail of How To’s – The Twitter for Real Estate Book

March 2, 2009 By Matthew Dollinger 1 Comment

So this wasn’t what I was planning about blogging on, but I have to put this out there…

Nicole and Reggie Nicolay (@nik_nik and @cyberhomes) have completely outdone themselves and put together an amazing (and free) E-book entitled Everything You Want to Know about Twitter for Real Estate at the Cyberhomes Blog.

While we’re on the topic of Twitter…

February 21, 2009 By Matthew Dollinger 1 Comment

And while we’re all hopped up on the topic of Twitter, I wanted to give a shout out to a fellow blogger who I THINK (personally, me…) has probably put together the best list of Twitter Applications around.

Twitter apps are all over the place. Whether hooking it up to FriendFeed so that your updates feed to your Facebook status, or a simple widget that resides on your blog to keep your readers up to date (see right sidebar!) these applications allow you to utilize Twitter more effectively and really harness the power of the site.

Social Media, RSS, Twitter and the Future of the Real Estate Industry

February 19, 2009 By Matthew Dollinger Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking to the Chicagoland Women’s Council of RealtorsR on the power of Social Media in the marketplace. Originally titled, “Social Media – Do you Twitter?” I took a little creative liberty on myself and expaned the topic.

Making Sense of the Real Estate Web-World’s Future

February 14, 2009 By Matthew Dollinger Leave a Comment

Because many of the leading online real estate sites have opted to source listings directly from brokers, rather than becoming brokers themselves and displaying listings via IDX, there are many gaps in the inventory they display. Consumers are either unaware of this issue, and make life-changing decisions with incomplete information, or throw down their stone and start hopping. – 1000Watt Blog – Online Real Estate’s Dirty Little Secret – Aug. 11th, 2008

My Top 5 Questions for Leading Real Estate Companies of the World

February 12, 2009 By Matthew Dollinger Leave a Comment

Last week I was asked to pick 5 questions from a list of 13 provided by Leading Real Estate Companies of the World for possible contribution to their blog The Real Estate Beat. Yes, there was a free entrance into the conference at stake, but all the same I thought I would share my responses.

7 Videos to Introduce you to the Power of Social Media

January 21, 2009 By Matthew Dollinger 2 Comments

So I found a great new blog that I subscribed to today via @REBlogGirl on Twitter called “Left The Box – Internet Marketing Strategies”. Mary (aka REBlogGirl on Twitter) tweeted about a great post that Samir had put up a while ago entitled “7 Videos About Social Media You Need to Watch”

Why Scribd.com has moved to #1 on my Cool List for Blogging

January 6, 2009 By Matthew Dollinger 2 Comments

So I’ve been playing around with a number of free online hosting sites as of late. Since we in Chicago have the ability to access some of the most complete and up-to-date real estate statistics via Agent Metrics by Terradatum, it’s really come down to a couple of things.

Why the idea of 2.0 might have a long way to go.

December 28, 2008 By Matthew Dollinger Leave a Comment

To those of us that have made our job, livelihood or passion around this modern day technology, most of this is pretty basic. We look to Mashable or other sites to see how they have improved upon it or what the latest “plugin” is to take us to the next level. But… what about the other 90% of the world? What about the 40+ consumer that doesn’t get it or doesn’t think that social media is anything more than a way for high school kids to bitch about their teachers and share pictures?

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