Adventures in Social Media

Adventures in Social Media

by | Apr 18, 2011

Stay current with the RMLS™ Twitter and Facebook accounts!

Sometime during the last decade, the term “social media” grew more fiercely than wildfire. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Foursquare and LinkedIn were created. To go even farther, we began to see social media in the form of blogging (WordPress, Blogspot), micro-blogging (Twitter), online reviewing (Yelp), photo-sharing (Flickr) and smart purchasing (Groupon).

It’s difficult trying to keep up with the constant flow of new social media applications, trends and products that come on the market each day. Due to the fact that social media has started to play a more key role in the real estate industy, RMLS™ is making an effort at “keeping up with the Joneses.”

Here’s how you can benefit from our efforts:

Did you know you can check up on our Twitter feed, Facebook page and RMLS™ Updates blog, without creating an account of your own? Say there is an RMLSweb outage (which is not something we like to think about, but it has happened before) and you want up-to-date information, here is what you can do: 

Twitter: Go to http://twitter.com/RMLSweb

This will take you to the RMLS™ Twitter account, where you can see all of our recent “tweets” and our Twitter profile (even if you don’t have a Twitter account of your own!). From here, you can choose to “follow” us if you have an account! We recommend you do so in order to stay current with our updates.

Facebook: Go to http://www.facebook.com/RMLSweb
Here, you will be directed to our Facebook page! A goal of ours for 2011 is to increase our fan base on our Facebook page. Since we’re on the hunt for new fans, make sure to “like” our page!

Blog: For those of you who may have stumbled upon a link to this blog, at any time you can access it by going to: http://rmlsweb.wordpress.com/ 

We plan on doing some cool contests and giveaways in the future for those following us on Twitter and Facebook. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to win some free stuff!  Also, don’t forget to tune in for these weekly events:

  • Tuesday Training Tip – Each Tuesday we post an interesting RMLSweb training tip to our Facebook and Twitter accounts regarding certain aspects of the RMLSweb system.
  • Friday Fun Fact – Each Friday we post a humorous fact on Twitter and Facebook about a fact of the day and how it coincides with a statistic from RMLSweb! 

Finally, if you are looking to become a more efficient social media user, check out tools such as Hootsuite and TweetDeck that allow you to view and post to your Twitter, Facebook and Blog feeds – all at once!

Happy social media adventures!

Supra Lockbox Activity – Updated Through Week of March 21 – March 27

Supra Lockbox Activity – Updated Through Week of March 21 – March 27

by | Apr 4, 2011

Activity rises in Washington and remains even in Oregon

When comparing the week of March 21 – March 27 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox increased 13.6% in Washington and remained approximately even (just eight opens less than week prior) in Oregon.

Washington

Oregon

Archive

View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.

Adventures in Social Media

April Real Estate Events & Education

by | Apr 1, 2011

This April, take advantage of FREE RMLSweb training!

Here’s a quick rundown of upcoming real estate events and education for April in Oregon and Southern Washington. If you have an event that is not listed here, please let us know by commenting below. For future events, please send an e-mail to communications (at) rmls (dot) com.

RMLS™ Events:

2011 RMLS™ Trade Fair!
The 2011 RMLS™ Trade Fair will take place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland from 9:30am to 4pm on April 21st, with a reception immediately following at 4pm and ending at 6pm. Attendee registration is now available, and registrants will have the chance to win one of two grand prizes! For more information and to register, see the Trade Fair website.

RMLS™ Reduced Initiation Fees!
RMLS™ posted its first listings in 1991! To honor our anniversary, we will be holding a special promotion of reduced office initiation fees during the upcoming months of April and May. All initiation fees will be reduced to $50. For more information on this promotion, you can email our Accounting department at accounting@rmls.com, or call them at 503-872-8003. Or, you can stop in to the nearest RMLS™ office. For more information, see this flyer.

Events around the region:

-April 7-8: Oregon Chapter Council of Residential Specialists presents CRS 206: Technologies to Advance Your Business. For more information, see here.

-April 8: Portland Metropolitan Association of REALTORS® presents its Law and Rule Required Course. For more information, please see here.

-April 13: Oregon Association of REALTORS® Young Professionals Network presents “Using Facebook and Blogging to Build Your Business” from 8:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. at the Salem Conference Center. For more information and to register, see the event flyer.

-April 13-14: Clackamas Community College presents its two-day Real Estate Continuing Education Seminar Series. For more information and to preregister, see the flyer.

-April 14-15: The 2nd Annual Southern Oregon Commercial Real Estate Marketing Conference is held at Seven Feathers Casino in Canyonville, Oregon. For more information and to register, click here.

-April 23: Earth Advantage Institute hosts its annual Earth Day Run! For more information, see here.

Also, if you are an RMLS™ subscriber, we have lots of FREE educational opportunities at a location near you; click the link for your area to view the February Training Calendar:

–Coos County
–Eastern Oregon
–Eugene
–Florence
–Gresham
–Hood River
–Portland
–Roseburg
–Salem
–Vancouver

Adventures in Social Media

Listing Load Now Available in Firefox!

by | Mar 31, 2011

You can now use your Firefox browser to access Listing Load

One of the most common requests we have received in the past is to update Listing Load so that it is compatible with the Firefox browser. As a result, in early February the RMLS™ Board of Directors voted to make Listing Load enhancements and Firefox compatibility a top priority for projects to complete in 2011. Well, we are happy to announce the ability to use Listing Load with your Firefox browser is now available!

To clarify, this announcement is in regard to the compatibility of Firefox with Listing Load. While there are some features of RMLSweb that still are not functional in the Firefox browser, this release is a major step toward full compatibility. (For a list of the functions that are still not fully compatible outside of Internet Explorer, please see Document 1765.) We have tested and approved Listing Load with Firefox Version 3.6.16 and Version 4, and we have also tested it in the Firefox browser on both Windows and the Mac operating system!

Here are some items to keep in mind when using Listing Load in Firefox:

  • The look and feel of Listing Load will be slightly different in a new browser, so you may notice small changes in alignment, shape of fields, etc. Below is an example of different field shapes in Listing Load when using Firefox on a Mac. The fields that are more rectangular are the required fields, while the rounded (bubbled) fields are optional.

  • Spell Check does not work when accessing Listing Load through Firefox. However, the Firefox browser is equipped with its own Spell Check that you may use.
  • To print In-Progress listings from Firefox on a Mac, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader instead of Macintosh’s preview viewer. Adobe Acrobat Reader has more configuration options than the default viewer, allowing users to adjust margins and page size as needed to ensure correct layout and formatting of the printed In-Progress input forms.

If you have any questions or run into any problems or issues, please feel free to call Help Desk at 503-872-8002 or toll-free at 877-256-2169 and mention that you are using Firefox.