Technology Corner

<p> I posted before under SKYPE. . I am about to take on some software and systems to provide web conferecing to agents similar to Go To Meeting and Webex. For those of you out there who have done web conf before, I have a question- Would you use the services more if they were Free or up to 12.95 per month. If free, some advertisers would pay to have ads on the right side and top of your screen sharing(powerpoints etc) -- you could do conferences on the fly from any computer , to any computer with no downloads needed... no long codes, no minimum usage.. </p> <p> or - for brokers out there-- woul you buy 5 &quot;seats&quot; or 5 subscriptions, and have conferencing available on every computer in the office, yet only 5 or 10 at one time? </p> <p> </p> <p> I am willing to commit time and money if I see a need out there that is not being met </p> <p> </p> <p> thanks, AL Clark </p> <p> r e a l P I N G </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

<p>Another RealTown member, Ginny Whitney, recently posted comments in another place in RealTown&nbsp;related to Skype and her and I emailed about it privately.</p> <p>I recently got a new Toshiba M700 tablet PC that had some Skype information included and I had been meaning to take a closer look at Skype (pronounced SKIPE). I was aware of Skype for about the last two years but had never gotten around to it. A friend of mine talks regularly to his friend in New Zealand (like every day) and does that for free using Skype.</p> <p>Longer story shorter. I ended up hooking&nbsp;up with Ginny with&nbsp;voice and video using Skype.</p> <p>My first trip out using Skype, I am sitting at an open house for a client&nbsp; and&nbsp;I have my new tablet PC with me and I am&nbsp;online via a Wi-Fi network some place in the neighborhood.&nbsp;I creat a profile in my newly installed (easy) Skype software and made myself visible in the Skype system.&nbsp;Low and behold Ginny see's me and chats me up and in no time we have a voice over IP conversation going complete with a video feed from both ends. We may as well have been sitting in the same room together. We were easily a couple thousand miles from each other. I was struck by two things. Dumbfounded actually. It was EASY and it was FUN.</p> <p>Skype is one of the coolest pieces of technology I have discovered in a while......and thats saying something.</p> <p>Later in the afternoon, while at the same open house, I have &quot;Skype Me&quot; turned on which is a mode where anybody can see you and you are indicating you want to communicate. Low and behold a guy from Brazil chats me up. And guess what.........there was a language barrier.</p> <p>I thought he was talking French at first but it turned out to be Portuguese. His opening salutation was &quot;Oi&quot;, so I figured French but that is also Hi in Portuguese (I get $250/hr as a consultant b-t-w).</p> <p>GUESS WHAT!!!........Google has a translator.......and GUESS WHAT ELSE!!!......its easy. Antonio Cesar Oliveira De Souza showed me how it worked and now I have a brand new friend in Barbacena Brazil.</p> <p>Politics, Culture, Images, Communication, Discovery.......</p> <p>Its all right at our virtual fingertips these days.</p> <p>I have been on this planet for a while and It just gets more interesting and exciting.&nbsp;</p> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><a name="_MailAutoSig">David A. Gibbs, Broker Associate, ABR, E-PRO</a></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>RE/MAX Professionals, Inc. </span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>Gainesville, Florida</span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>Cell:352.318.0811 Fax:888.520.6888 Office:352.375.1002</span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>http://Your-RealEstatePro.com</span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.rebac.net/Content.aspx?PageName=AboutRebac.htm"><font color="#0000ff"><span>ABR</span></font></a><span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Accredited Buyer Representative</span></span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.your-realestatepro.com/irw/article.php?cid=21488&amp;ctry=US&amp;arid=85753"><font color="#0000ff"><span>E-PRO</span></font></a><span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; Certified Internet Real Estate Professional</span></span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span>Residential - Land - Investment</span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Experience is what you get when you can't have what you want.......</div>

<p> Can anyone explain to me (plain english, please) how to connect my laptop to the mobile phone and then get to my e-mail or web sites on my laptop? I&#39;m dazed &amp; confused, trying to figure it out. Do I have to change any settings on my laptop to do it? </p>

<p> Is anyone using RELAY? I recently came across this website (<a href="http://www.rebt.com">www.rebt.com</a>) and it almost seems to good to be true. Our office is thinking of trying it out, but I would like some actual feedback from people that are using it. Thanks </p>

<p> I spend an hour to 2 everyy day reading or blogging. Some of the sites I use are: </p> <p> GRInetwork.org </p> <p> Relaynetwoking </p> <p> Activerain.com </p> <p> SRES </p> <p> InternetCrusade.com </p> <p> DrHousingbubble.blogspot.com </p> <p> Blog.inman.com </p> <p> Houseblogger.com </p> <p> Realblogging.com </p> <p> Therealestatebloggers </p> <p> Realesatetomatoe.com </p> <p> Trulia.com </p> <p> Zillowblog.com </p> <p> Realtownblogs.com </p> <p> Linkedin.com </p> <p> Realestatepros.org </p> <p> Realtown.com </p> <p> REwebpros.com </p> <p> In these unusual times every little bit helps, and we can get our referrals going. </p> <p> Libby McPherson-Mann </p> <p> <a href="mailto:Libbymm1@gmail.com">Libbymm1@gmail.com</a> </p> <p> My areas of speciality are Woodside, Portola valley, Menlo Park, Atherton, Redwood City and San Carlos, all in San Mateo County, CA San Francisco Peninsula. </p> <p> I will pay a 25% referral.... </p>

<p> Hi Everyone - we are Noreen and Wayne with Prudential Holmes &amp; Kennedy in Somers, NY, just north of NYC. Our company has contracted with a photographer that produces VT for our office and he does other Prudential offices as well. We thought he was great in the beginning but found out he is less than responsive, does not deliver product on a timely basis and his photos make the rooms look bigger than they are!!! So...we are looking for something different. I know there is CirclePix, Visual Tour...we want a program that is different than the rest. We want a VT, neighborhood tour, school reports and be able to have a voice script. Any ideas??? </p> <p> Noreen &amp; Wayne </p>

<p> Does anyone know of (or the code for) a widget that I can use to scroll my blog headlines on my homepage that will then link when clicked to the appropriate blog entry? I am looking for something maybe 2&quot;x.5&quot;, I think you can modify the sizes of most of these types of tools. </p> <p> I want something with no link another site, widget producer, etc. It should only allow people to click to my blog to the entry that is associated with the headline. </p> <p> So if I have to pay for it I will. Or if someone has or knows how to get the code, please let me know! </p>

<p> Good Morning! </p> <p> My name is Kimberlee Morgan and I am a real estate agent in Sunny Indian Wells,CA. For those of you unsure where that is, it is in the Palm Springs area known as the Coachella Valley. </p> <p> I am currently taking the E-pro course in order to get up to date on using the internet and technology to expand my business. So here I am on RealTown.... :) </p> <p> My first step is to create a new website, so any ideas or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. </p> <p> Make today count! </p> <p> Kimberlee Morgan </p> <p> <a href="mailto:kimberleemorgan@windermere.com">kimberleemorgan@windermere.com</a> </p>

<p>These days there are two ways to accomplish an electronic signature.</p> <p>Technology has been in existence for a few years&nbsp;whereby a software application residing on a computer provides the ability to create a unique and encrypted electronic &quot;representation&quot; of a person's signature complete with a date/time stamp. The electronic representation of the person's signature is made as a component part of the electronic document the person is signing. It is secure, it belongs to and is irrevocably represented as being the person's electronic &quot;mark&quot;. Adobe Acrobat has this technology built in now. I have worked with electronic medical record software&nbsp;where a physician's electronic signature is affixed to a medical record entry electronically in this manner.</p> <p>We now have technology available today where a person can actually and literally affix their signature to a document using their natural handwriting albeit in electronic form. The technical computer term for it is &quot;inking&quot;. Once a person signs a document (most commonly an Adobe PDF document) and the document is securely saved, the overlayed &quot;inked&quot; signature is rastorized (melded) in to the document and becomes a permanent part of the document.</p> <p>And thus we have electronic signature.......two ways of accomplishing.</p> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">David A. Gibbs, Broker Associate, ABR, E-PRO<br /> RE/MAX Professionals, Inc. <br /> Gainesville, Florida<br /> Cell: 352.318.0811 Fax:888.520.6888 Office: 352.375.1002<br /> <a href="http://www.Your-RealEstatePro.com">http://www.Your-RealEstatePro.com</a></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.rebac.net/Content.aspx?PageName=AboutRebac.htm"><span><font color="#006bb5">ABR</font></span></a><span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Accredited Buyer Representative</span></span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.your-realestatepro.com/irw/article.php?cid=21488&amp;ctry=US&amp;arid=85753"><span><font color="#006bb5">E-PRO</font></span></a><span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; Certified Internet Real Estate Professional</span></span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span><br /> Residential - Land - Investment</span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span> <div><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #111111"><a href="http://www.skype.com/"><font color="#006bb5"><br /> SKYPE</font></a> me at <strong>dave.gibbs.florida.usa </strong>and be sure to let me know you are from RealTown.</span></div> </span></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">&nbsp;</div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">I am never too busy for your North Central Florida real estate referral&nbsp;</div> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p> Hi! My name is Mike Bowler Sr. I live in Lansing Michigan; I have been a Realtor/Broker/Owner for the past 30 years. I specialize in marketing real estate in the greater Lansing area. I also own a company called PRETEC (Professional Real Estate Training Education &amp; Consulting) I am focusing much of my efforts on Blogging and Internet marketing for my clients and customers who include the general public and for real estate agents, staff, managers and ancillary businesses for training, education and consulting. </p> <p> I hope to learn more and be a contributor to this group. Mike </p> <p> <a href="http://mikebowler.net">http://mikebowler.net</a><br /> <a href="http://mikebowler.com">http://mikebowler.com</a> </p>

<p>We build interactive neighborhood websites, and contract realtors to be the primary sponsor of the area. This is a great way to gain exposure in your area, and position yourself as the neighborhood expert. This is a free service to the residents provided by the realtor. Imagine the community or area you farm has a community intra-net, and you were the only realtor on their, as the primary sponsor, imagine the personal exposure the realtor will gain. This is passive marketing, and niche marketing. Take a look at what we do, and I would love to hear some feed back.</p> <p><a href="http://www.EZNeighborhoodWebsites.com">www.EZNeighborhoodWebsites.com</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>