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Todd Carpenter
July 15, 2009 at 10:49 am
I use a feed reader. But instead of subscribing to rss feeds from specific blogs, I subscribe to rss feeds from specific google blog searches. I also use google news alerts, smart brief, and there’s internal staff here at NAR that monitor the web.
But the main tool I use to find interesting posts, is Twitter. That’s how I found this post.
Ryan Jones
July 15, 2009 at 10:55 am
Great links Lani. I agree it is very important to stay on top of the news if you are going to consider yourself a professional and a market leader. Which I hope we are all striving to be. Thanks again!
tomferry
July 15, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Hey Lani- Thx for the share with TheClozing Great site …. yours and Linsey’s blogs are right there front and center.
TF
jf.sellsius.theclozing
July 15, 2009 at 5:30 pm
@Tomferry– thanks for the support, Tom.
Lani, Thanks for mentioning theClozing.com
I use a feedreader. It regularly gets backed up and I have to run through 400+ sites– arrgh. So we decided to funnel a hand-picked feedreader thru an algorithm to pull real estate news and organize it in one place. We also added a human editor. The result– a fast, easy digest of news from mainstream and social media, regularly updated, like a ticker tape. We will be aggregating more social media news in the future.
IMO the feedreader is not very useful for real estate professionals who are working– it’s a time suck and it gets backed up very quickly, discouraging use. The majority of agents don’t even have one.
(I know we’re onto something because my wife is a regular visitor. She doesn’t have a feedreader. )
Besides the sites you mention, there is BreakingNews, which pulls hyperlocal Twitter tweets (I’m working with Pat Kitano & Kevin Boer on this project).
For current keyword mentions (news ?) I use Tweetbeep; Monitter, and Backtype, as well as Google alerts. (there are other stealth means)
The trend is definitely toward current news, thanks to Twitter. Even search engines are getting into the act of searching current news– take a look at Collecta.
That’s enough babbling. Thanks again.
PS: My partner in theClozing is Anthony Barba
Shane
July 15, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Thanks for the great news sites. Google does have a great feed reader.
jf.sellsius.theclozing
July 15, 2009 at 9:47 pm
BTW, I found this post on theClozing.
Jim Rake
July 16, 2009 at 9:03 am
Another reminder of why I keep coming back for more. Thanks!