Big question in the blogosphere… Should blog comments be open or closed? The argument for open comments is basically that it allows consumers (readers) to interact with you through your blog.  It is a very strong and compelling argument.  And while most blogs will NOT get an abundance of comments, tossing them without deep thought […]

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Back in the mid 1990s, people started to say that you HAD to have a website.  So, you hired someone to code up a few pages and it was good…  You were done.  Ten years later, those same people were telling you that you HAD to have a blog.  The cool thing was that you […]

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On Monday, September 26th, I am hosting a “Lunch & Learn” at the NAMAR (Northeast Atlanta Metro Association of REALTORS®) offices in Duluth.  We will be talking about blogging for real estate professionals. As part of the discussion, we will be covering a variety of topics, time permitting.  Among them… Blog Platforms Active Rain WordPress.com […]

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WordPress is a great Content Management System (CMS).  It can be a blog, but it can also be so much more.  It can be a VERY easily updated website as well.  But in order to really get the most out of WordPress, you need to deploy a few plugins that aren’t included with the basic […]

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Image via Wikipedia WordPress is an amazingly cool and powerful tool for building a website.  It is one of my two favorite CMSs (Content Management Systems)… the other being Joomla. What makes WordPress cool is that it doesn’t take a team of geeks to fire it up and make it run every day.  In fact, […]

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RSS…  Really Simple Syndication.  Rich Site Summary. Most of us know what it is… but few are really leveraging it to help create business or simplify our lives… For those that don’t know, RSS is a news feed.  Basically, by subscribing to a website’s RSS feed, each time the site is updated, we will get […]

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