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Never Say Never: Online Privacy in Real Estate Transactions

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For most people, buying or selling a home is the single largest monetary transaction of their lives.  For most buyers and sellers it is an undisputable “given” that the real estate agent/ broker that obtains or sees their personal/private information in the myriad of steps along the way knows the rules of privacy laws and would never compromise such information. Communicating their information to anyone not directly related to the transaction, including independent contractors or via the Internet or Social Media networks is outside the standard expectations of a home buyer or seller. NEVER SAY NEVER. Picture this, a true [...]

 by Judith Delaney on April 29, 2011 · 0 comments

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A Letter from Wildfire RE: Amazon Cloud Outage

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Update! Email from Wildfire…”We are back online as of 7:04PM EST…” I just received this email from Wildfire, a great application I use to create contests for Facebook clients. The outage is affecting Foursquare, Hootsuite, Reddit and a bunch of other platforms. At the time of this post, it was almost 4pm PST – which is about 7pm on the US east coast – that’s a 12-hour outage (and counting)! ========================== Dear Wildfire Client, Due to unplanned outage of our infrastructure provider, Amazon Cloud (EC2), Wildfire promotions are currently not viewable. The outage began at 4:16 EST this morning. Unfortunately, [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on April 21, 2011 · 0 comments

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Social Media in the Workplace – The Top 5 Security Issues for Small Business

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If you’re a small business, you’ve heard by now that Social Media is a great online marketing tool and can ultimately be used to help improve your bottom line. It’s easy to use, relatively inexpensive, accessible at home, work or even on your mobile phone, and it levels the playing field for those of who want a voice in the digital world. For all these reasons, social media provides an excellent opportunity to connect with customers, conduct market research, improve customer service, promote your brand, establish yourself as an expert, build communities, have conversations and yes, increase business. But as [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on September 17, 2010 · 0 comments

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