I thought i would take a second to provide some thoughts on what our Technology review section of Real Estate Industry Watch is all about. As REALTORS, we all need tools that work and work well. We need them to be easy to use. We need them to deliver what they promise and NOT to frustrate us.In many places on the web, there are quite a few people who simply say "you should do this" or "you shoud do that". Our goal with our technology reviews is to take a cell phone, a camera, a laptop, a lead … [Read more...]

This is a preview of a much larger post to come on REIW. Among the technology community, there is little doub that the wave of the future (long term) is going to be to the more complex "smart" phones as opposed to the simpler cell phone counterparts that are (essentially) for making phone calls and not much else.Some of the conversations that I have had indicates a split in how users ACTUALLY use their cell phone. Some prefer to use it for phone/voice mail only. I prefer to use it for phone … [Read more...]