DISQUS

Change is good. For selfish reasons I'm glad to hear that you will be contributing still with your Real Estate interests. Looking forward to hearing more about the change as it happens.

Hey Todd. Just commented at Rob's place not realizing you'd written this post.

Some great ideas here, particularly #3 "I’d take a long hard look at NAR’s leadership. Determine their willingness/competence to participate in social media and evaluate the possible strengths of each member"

In my opinion this would be a better place to start then hiring a "the guy" just yet. Taking it a step further, why not have someone on who is working already for the NAR step up and relate to the public using Social Media? Inside-out, rather than outside-in.

Hey John,

Great to see you posting about micro-blogging. The beauty of Tumblr is in it's simplicity. I have been using it for some time now as a not only a personal Tumblog in the way you describe (using twitterfeed as well), but also as a shared stream of information for my small business. Most members of my team are not blog readers, so this has been a great tool for me to pull shared items direct from Google reader and post on Tumblr. This allows me to have a shared stream of posts in my industry as well as a place to put other items on one simple to read site. Tumblr also has a "follow" feature and now I have 3 others friends in my industry using Tumblr in the same way, allowing for greater awareness of newsworthy blog posts - you can "reblog" others posts on your Tubmblog. To push it even further in it's simple capacity you can simply add commenting to Tumblr by using Disqus. I would encourage anyone thinking of blogging or looking for a free and simple place to share information to start with Tumblr. The barriers to entry are very small.