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What does this picture have to do with the topic of this post? I am not sure yet. But I will tell you what I was thinking about. I just came back from Delaware, visiting Maya, one of the other founders of TwitterQueens. On the long car ride home, I …

More of you

I had to share this, because I think the next new thing will not be more of the same. I think it will be a leap into a different way to interact through the online medium, something more satisfying to the participants. There is no perfect online discourse. It reminds …

Miniature Earth

I really like this video. Swings things back into perspective for me when I am having one of those days. Real estate or social media questions? Find me …On Facebook where you can access a home search …All of my online links …On LinkedIn …Email me at diane@realtyman.com …or call …

Top 10 signs that you are a social media addict

Top Ten Ways you know you are addicted to social media: 10. You know what hashtag and retweet mean. 9. You know which side you are coming down on in the number-of-followers v. quality of followers debate. 8. You head home early from a party so you can tweet about it. 7. You …

Social media- social= just another ad

It’s funny- just as I was settling in to write this, the Mashable squirrel scampered past, so of course I had to follow it to the Information is Beautiful blog. These are the graphical depictions  (based on the data from previous surveys – InsideTwitter and the PearAnalyticsstudy, according to Mashable): This is what struck …

plus ça change…

There are few times when you go back and everything is exactly the same. Visit your old grade school, and the teachers are no longer (as) scary, the water fountains are way too low, and forget using the toilets. Even the walls are a more cheerful color. This flux is …

List of 5 Helpful iPhone apps

Buzz at Inman Connect centered on what would be the next Big Thing. Where is real estate moving? What brokerage models can we expect to see? When you consider that not too long ago we were printing and handing out The Book of MLS listings, and how having that information …

The Next Big Thing

Coming home from Inman Connect San Francisco, I had a lot to think about. We heard a lot of information that people brought in and shared. Even more importantly, when you get clusters of smart people together, you can almost feel the ideas fly off of them. The first day …

Serving or Sharing- social media mindset

I saw a great title for a post today. It was: [from {grow}] The post discusses, among other things, the difference in thinking about social media results as ROI or Impact. It can be difficult to quantify exactly where business comes from  if you are active in social media. Say …

Angry Burger

I am in San Francisco, and it is just wonderful. I am here for RE BarCamp San Francisco and Inman Connect, and aside from some- well, let’s call it jet lag for want of a better word, I am excited and happy. Yesterday was the first day of the two-pronged …