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Tales from the Techside
Feb 10
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Looking to Meet with a Client Check out Mezzoman

As someone who regularly meets with members and vendors outside the office I find it difficult to find a good place to meet and generally end up traveling further than the other person because I am not as familiar with the area as they are.
To use Mezzoman simply enter two addresses and a destination point […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Feb 09
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Missing Polaroid check out Instantizer

If you have digital photos that you want to make look like Polaroid photos check out Instantizer. You could go through the process in Photoshop but the Instantizer site makes it easy to do with just a few clicks.

Select a Photo
Add a descriptive or witty statement
Choose a tilt angle
Click Upload

Seconds later you have a […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Feb 08
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Backwards Marketing Strategies

Correct me if I am wrong…
I do not want to get into the entire media is painting an inaccurate picture of the marketplace debate. Ultimately, I defer to the market professionals as they are in the best position to make those observations. However; I will admit I am confused, not by the media but by […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Feb 07
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Using Text to Manipulate Dates in Excel

Today, I had a member call and ask how she could convert a list of numbers in excel to the names of a month. Apparently, she was having issues sorting her table by the name of the month and to get around the issue she replaced the names of the month with the number of […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Feb 06
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Visiting MySpace or Facebook Use Protection

Lets face it the Internet is a dangerous place and with REALTORS spending more of their time on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook they are more likely to run into the various pests which exploit weaknesses inherent to those sites. To be fair to MySpace and Facebook it is not their applications […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Feb 05
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Complete a Designation Issue a Press Release

This evening I was looking through Google News for any new stories containing the phrase “REALTOR”. The first question that comes to mind is don’t I have anything better to do. Honestly no; I finished my homework, American Idol is back to being boring and it is too cold to walk the dog (don’t judge […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Feb 05
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Windows Vista Users Rejoice Built-in Screenshot tool

Let me say I wasn’t too happy when I had to take on the Windows Vista machine left to me because someone bought it while I was out of the office only to discover it would not work for their needs. Over the months I have slowly been won over by my vista machine and the regular […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Feb 04
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Pivot Tables for Fun and Profit

As the de-facto statistics guru for the association I find myself getting tasked regularly to take large amounts of data and format them in a way which is easy to understand or to identify trends in data. One thing that I have found is by and far people don’t understand or underestimate is the value in […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Dec 22
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On A Personal Note

First an apology, my posting has been a sporadic lately however that should change in the next couple of weeks. For the curious I have been studying for my Certified Ethical Hacker and MCDBA certifications and it has taken a lot of my personal time. So I really appreciate Michael taking up the slack.
Also…
Regular readers […]

Author: Mark Flavin
Dec 13
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SOS

I am hearing a lot of this right now. To say that this is a tough time for many in our industry is an understatement.
So what can you do? Well, without knowing your business model and strategy, it is hard to answer precisely. But I thought it might be a good time […]

Author: Michael Seguin