A reader had an interesting comment on my post about social media, which I will re-post in its entirety for the purposes of having a real discussion on the topic:
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John - interesting take on CRE-Advice.com. Allow me to give another as a member of that site. CRE-Advice.com is not for you and [...]

Kevin Maggiacomo is the President and CEO of Sperry Van Ness International, as well as one of the few CEOs of major real estate firms that I can think of that has embraced social media.  You can find him on Twitter where he is @Maggiacomo, or on his blog, http://www.maggiacomoblog.com/.  Kevin was good enough to [...]

Imad Naffa is the Founder and President of NAFFA International (www.NAFFAinc.com), a private Building Code Consulting services company from Fresno, CA. He is also the Developer and Administrator of the Building Code Discussions Group (BCDG), one of the largest building code online communities on the internet with 19,000+ members from 100+ countries.
You can find Imad [...]

LinkedIn is a frequent topic on this blog.  See here. Or here.
My last complaint was that LinkedIn is more interested in seeing what it can pull out of your social graph, than seeing what it can add to your social graph.  It looks like they have made a mild improvement.  I was inviting one of [...]

This installment of the real estate twitter profile series looks at Joe Stampone, a masters student at NYU.  You can find him on Twitter @JoeStampone1 where he has over 1900 followers, or at his website, www.astudentoftherealestategame.com . 
Joe made the list of the influential real estate Twitter users because he is followed by a number [...]

Sarah Yaussi is the Executive Editor of Big Builder Magazine, a trade magazine for the homebuilding industry.  You can find her on Twitter where she is @BigBuilder, has 2,024 followers and ranked #3 on my list of influential real estate Twitter users.   You can also find her on the web where she runs a blog [...]

The response to my list of top 100 influential real estate Twitter users was positive enough to tell me that there is a real void out there in terms of being able to discover new industry related people to follow.  In response to that void, and to also provide for some kind of a clearinghouse [...]

I’ve just posted a Top 100 list of investment real estate related Twitter users.  As I mention in that post, I was really just trying to get a good list of Twitter users to follow and wanted to make sure that they are all relevant for what I do.  As I was compiling the list [...]

Subtitle: Overanalyzing the heck out of the Twitter real estate universe.
Several months ago I compiled a list that showed influence of various blogs operating in the econo-financial space.  That post originated out of my search to make sure I was reading all of the influential econo-financial blogs out there.  A similar search has led me [...]

We’re organizing a meet-up through Twitter for any Southern California commercial real estate or land development professionals.  I figured I would also use this site as a way to form an interest list.
We’ll be doing a happy hour sometime in the next month.  It will likely be a really informal way to just get out [...]