My reasons for leaving ActiveRain have, I think, been expressed in sufficient detail, at sufficient length.Since stating them, I've spent more time rummaging around ActiveRain, questioning whether I had overstated my case. If anything, I understated it.I've paid careful attention to the posts and
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02/19/2007
I've come to ActiveRain and begun writing an online journal / blog so that I can learn a few things by posting on some topics and participating in a discussion of those topics, and hopefully teach a few things I know along the way.What's happened all too often instead is that people are jumping i
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02/14/2007
I'm somewhat stunned by my inability to locate a fair housing statement here. I've tried, and I can't.So, at least on my own behalf, I'm supplying a variation of the one I use on my other sites. I'm doing that as a firm statement that I detest the express and implied religious preferences that ot
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02/11/2007
Let's recap what you've done so far in this series.First, you determined that your business needed a long-term focus, and that you'd set aside as much time as you could afford for building that focus. You decided that Flickr would be an important part of a multi-faceted Web marketing strategy for
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02/10/2007
Blogging is a conversational way of sharing what you know with people who are interested in your knowledge and, in turn, learning from them. Using Flickr is a great way to become familiar with some of the tools that bloggers use to reach a wider public with their conversation, and to build relati
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02/09/2007
Did I get your attention? Yesterday evening I posted Flickr albums of photos of downtown Antioch and Clublands Antioch (one of the 3 developments in my focus for my pretend real estate business).A photo of Frye's Restaurant in downtown Antioch is now in the # 1 position on Google - in about 24 h
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02/07/2007
Call me a hypocrite. I'm suggesting that you focus, and I'm not focusing. I should be continuing my series on how to use Flickr to your benefit, and instead I'm writing a top ten list of things you should stop doing when blogging.Why would I do that? To paraphrase J.P. Morgan: every man has two r
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02/07/2007
Flickr is a wildly popular photo sharing, photo search and social networking site. It's owned by Yahoo! and so will be around for a while.Flickr can be an extremely valuable (and dirt-cheap or free) tool for building relationships with people who are interested in your focus area, and for enablin
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02/07/2007
As a newbie here, I'm in a state of complete confusion about many of the posts I see here. Do most real estate professionals, I wonder, have a business death-wish? Are they completely clueless about how much of the world perceives them?I've read several posts today from agents touting how ActiveR
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02/06/2007
I'm putting off my promised post on Getting started with Flickr for another post or two, while I define my business niche and give some more background. It occurred to me that my whole series on using Flickr as a business-building tool would make more sense if I started with a realistic (I think)
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02/05/2007
