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At times we will be refeaturing this post so new members can see it and as we add some of your excellent posts to this list of Resources!

The wonderful thing about Active Rain is the fact that members share their knowledge with each other. Several new members have asked about a help facility and we have pulled together several resources here at ActiveRain that are not easily found when you are in the need for an answer.  

The answers you seek are from your fellow Active Rain members actual posts.  If you see a post that should be ease email us the link to the post that should be added and the category you think it should be in.  We will be updating this document on a regular basis.

In the coming months there are going to be many exciting changes here at Active Rain and we will be keeping you up to date as these changes happen.   

The collage on the left of the title paragraph was created by Blanca.   The photos to the right of all the posts are taken from Localism.  Here are a few excellent examples of photos in Localism...



Community Guidelines


Plagiarism 

About Our Community 


Groups To Check Out

 

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Blogging - Basics


Writing Basics to Help You

The 8 P's to Blogging Success - The Real Estate Tomato

Your Blog Is Bait - The Real Estate Tomato

"If You Write It They Will Come!" - The Real Estate Tomato

Who Are You Blogging For? - The Real Estate Tomato





Generating Ideas

So You Want to know more about SEO
Tools that will Help You 

 

 




 

Commenting on Posts
Photos & Videos 

Reading Posts

 
Getting Along in the Rain

Introduction to Localism
  Networking with ActiveRain and other really good habits

 
Community - Getting Involved 

Configuration and How Did They Do That?
Addiction to ActiveRain 

Humor around the Rain

 

 
Posted by ActiveRain Real Estate Network on 05/19/2007 02:30 PM   Comments (172)   activerain, training, guide  
Post is included in group: Active Rain Newbies

172 Comments on ActiveRain Community Resources - Updated 06/18/08

I am SPEECHLESS!  THanks for putting these resources together and this is the second time this week I have been choked up and speechless in the rain!  WOW!  Thanks again!

03/28/2007 02:51 PM by Renee Burrows - Las Vegas NV. ASK ABOUT -1st Time Buyer Down Payment Assistance! (Nevada Realty Solutions - Realtor - Estate - Probate - REO)

Great resource - thanks for putting everything together in one spot  

03/28/2007 02:54 PM by Clearwater Real Estate Pinellas Florida Condos & Homes for Sale- Cyndee Haydon (Charles Rutenberg Realty)

Have you guys ever considered sending out a greeting "packet" with link to something like this to new members.

It might help.

Me

03/28/2007 03:06 PM by Craig Schiller (REAL ESTAGING, a nationally recognized leader in Staging.)

Does this mean I do not have to go back over my Bookmarked Blogs? Well I just Bookmarked this one.

03/28/2007 03:22 PM by David Spencer & Assoc., Broker & Lic. Instr. CE and Pre-Lic.

Craig,

We are actually working on a series of training emails for new members. Thanks for the tip.

03/28/2007 03:25 PM by Jonathan Washburn (ActiveRain Corp)

Yep!  Another one Bookmarked and we thank you for it!

 

03/28/2007 03:28 PM by Pascack Valley Real Estate>> Lisa and Robert Hammerstein (Coldwell Banker)

Jonathan,

Very good information here that I am sure will benefit many of our members. Thanks : )

03/28/2007 03:35 PM by Bend Oregon REALTOR ® Kelli Fronabarger (Bend River Realty Inc.)

Anything that would help promote A/R is a plus.

Are you planing on adding other member photos, maybe some mini profile or mini backgrounds on some members?

03/28/2007 03:50 PM by Neal Bloom-Realtor ® Assoc.-CRS-Weston FL (RE/MAX Premier Associates)

What a great resource - this is what I call beginner's homework!

03/28/2007 04:42 PM by Rick & Ines - Miami Shores Real Estate (Majestic Properties)

Outstanding resource!   And nice job with the collage, Blanca! 

03/28/2007 04:55 PM by Linda Davis (RE/MAX Realty Group)

Wow! I feel so incredibly honored to be grouped with such a distinguished group of contributors. It really makes me realize how much I have grown to value and appreciate this amazing community!

03/28/2007 05:16 PM by Rich Jacobson ~ ActiveRain Community Builder (ActiveRain Corporation)

Excellent resource guys. This is going to be very helpful for new and old members alike. Great job putting this together.

03/28/2007 05:28 PM by Bryant Tutas-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc

Great Resource for everyone!

03/28/2007 05:40 PM by Lewiston NY Home Sales | Colleen Kulikowski (RealtyUSA Williamsville)

This is fabulous.

 

The link goes to the wrong place for my SEO post.  The correct link is:

 

http://activerain.com/blogsview/57364/Do-You-SEO

 

Laurie

03/28/2007 05:48 PM by

It is great because people help each other and everybody wins, great postings and bloggers

03/28/2007 05:50 PM by RE/MAX LLEWELLYN REALTORS

Big time kudos on this one. Lots of good stuff all in one place.

03/28/2007 05:58 PM by Jeff Turner (Real Estate Shows)

This is pretty cool. It will be interesting to see this grow a little and hopefully it's very helpful to the newbies. Gee, even helpful to some of us. Thanks for putting this together...

                                                                                                             jeff belonger

03/28/2007 06:39 PM by Jeff Belonger -- The FHA Expert.com -- FHA Loans -- FHA mortgages - USDA loans (Infinity Home Mortgage Company, Inc)

A great list of resources, that have must have taken awhile...to bad one of the bloggers mentioned is longer here.

03/28/2007 06:59 PM by Barnett Associates Real Estate, LLC

What a great resource! It's not only helpful for newbies. I found a few I'd missed, and a few I enjoyed rereading and am now ready to do something about.

03/28/2007 07:09 PM by Sharon Simms St Pete FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS (ALVA International, Inc.)

More and more reading material - thanks for the time and effort in pulling this all together for us!

03/28/2007 07:22 PM by Tony Marriott, Associate Broker, CRP, CLHMS, CRB, CRS ~~ Phoenix Arizona (Keller Williams Realty Professional Partners)

This is an awesome compilation of resources!  Folks should be able to find whatever they need from here...

03/28/2007 07:29 PM by Kaushik Sirkar (Call Realty, Inc.)

Instant resources I love it. It is Bookmarked for shore.

03/28/2007 08:45 PM by Downtown Portland Real Estate Broker~Herb Hamilton (RE/MAX Preferred Inc. Realtors)

Thank you !!   This is terrific - everything at my fingertips.

03/28/2007 09:30 PM by Sandi Gerrard, CRSS (Feel at Home * redesign * staging * training)

Wow, we certainly blog about blogging a lot! This is a good index that would benefit the new folks greatly.  Hope you can pull it together so they can get a copy.

kk 

03/28/2007 10:25 PM by Kristal Kraft ~Denver Real Estate~303-589-2022 (The Berkshire Group Realtors)

Caleb....  maybe add this one in there?? My pockets been picked...... Plargiarism at its best!!!

There were a lot of links added in regards to plagiarism. And there was even a solution added at the bottom of the post.

                                                                                                            jeff belonger

03/28/2007 10:33 PM by Jeff Belonger -- The FHA Expert.com -- FHA Loans -- FHA mortgages - USDA loans (Infinity Home Mortgage Company, Inc)

Man oh man, somebody did a lot of work on this! Beautifully done! Kudos!

This is a great resource for all of us. Thank you AR.

03/28/2007 10:52 PM by Mark Flanders (Olympic Northwest Mortgage)

Great set of resources. Thanks for putting this together.

Jeff

03/28/2007 11:03 PM by Jeff Dowler ~ Carlsbad Real Estate ~ 760-840-1360 (RE/MAX Associates)

Great stuff guys... all the newbie bloggers and some us older members will benefit with this resource....

I for one am bookmarking it.....

=-)

03/28/2007 11:33 PM by Central / Orlando Florida real estate - Alexander Harb PSEM®, E-Agent® (Beach and Luxury Realty Inc.)

Thanks for the post. This is a great resource. Retrieving posts will be much easier.

03/28/2007 11:37 PM by William Collins, Broker Associate (ERA Queen City Realty)

Hi, I am one week old on AR today.  This is wonderful.  I was looking all over for how to...   Thank you for putting this together.  Doreen

 

03/29/2007 12:29 AM by Phoenix Arizona Real Estate ~ Doreen McPherson (Keller Williams Arizona Realty ~ Scottsdale ~ Tempe)

Is there any way this can be featured in the Newbie Group?

When someone signs up, this blog should be automatically sent to them in an email!!!

along with Bianca originaly "how to" guide.

03/29/2007 05:18 AM by Karen Hurst ~ Principal Broker ~ Warwick ~ Rhode Island (Stonehurst Realty)

With chat rooms, often folks who are in the same region will EVENTUALLY get together for a party or lunch or something. I'm waiting to hear about a Silicon Valley Active Rain party. Wouldn't that be fun?

03/29/2007 11:00 AM by Mary Pope-Handy, ABR, CRS, ePRO, SRES (Byron & Associates)

This has been book marked, 4 blogs written I have a long way to go.  Thanks for the resources.

03/29/2007 12:27 PM by Angela Sonia (Axis Financial)

This is a wonderful " mini summary" guide to Active Rain, one to be read by all!

 Blanca, Your are wonderful to put this together. Thanks rain gods for all the work that went into this post.

OK so much reading; so little time!

 

03/29/2007 01:05 PM by Margaret Rome- Baltimore, Md.-HomeRome.com (TREC-Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome)

Margaret,

Actually Colleen Kulikowski helped us to compile this post.  We used Blanco's collage that she created for another post of hers.

 

03/29/2007 02:13 PM by Jonathan Washburn (ActiveRain Corp)

Karen,

I added this post to the Newbie Group.  Good idea! Thanks for suggesting it. 

~jon 

03/29/2007 02:17 PM by Jonathan Washburn (ActiveRain Corp)

That is terrific and thank you Colleen! What an awesome amount of work! You are amazing; all of you for the way you are working together to make Active Rain so successful. 

03/29/2007 02:54 PM by Margaret Rome- Baltimore, Md.-HomeRome.com (TREC-Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome)

Jonathan -- Thanks for the mention...   It was my pleasure to help!

03/29/2007 06:22 PM by Lewiston NY Home Sales | Colleen Kulikowski (RealtyUSA Williamsville)

Wow, what a great resource.  Thanks for mentioning one of my posts.  I enjoy the community and hope to be able to give back to it by adding value to other readers.  Keep up the great work in the Rain.

03/30/2007 03:07 AM by Century 21 Showcase

Hey AR... Thanks for compiling this..  This a great place to direct newbies to learn the ropes.   Thanks for including me..  Very nicely done.. :-)

03/30/2007 05:54 PM by Martin Rodriguez - President (SCV Loan Solutions)

Ahhh. Very nice. Lots of great ideas in here.

I would say more but it looks everything has already been said. I prefer not to mimic other people's comments :)

TLW...ROAR!

03/30/2007 07:13 PM by "The Lovely Wife"...Broker Bryant's Wife... (Co-Owner Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.)

Hi Craig,

I finally stopped posting and started reading all about the benefits of Active Rain. This resource guide is fantastic. 

I truly believe my blogging will be a whole lot better as a result of finally using all of the tools available.

04/01/2007 07:52 PM by Tracy Santrock-Cary NC Real Estate Blog (Fonville Morisey)

I can't believe how many great articles here that I NEED to read that I wouldn't have found with out your help! Thank you!

04/02/2007 05:15 PM by Yvonne Brown (Century 21 Northwest)

What a great compilation.  Thank you.  This will take days to get thru!!!

04/03/2007 08:53 AM by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.)

Very nicely done. We have been away for a week and we have a lot of catching up to do.

04/04/2007 05:02 PM by Jay McGillicuddy~Real Estate Broker (Prudential Verani Realty)

I think I'll be checking back to this one honest. I need to bookmark it...

04/07/2007 09:54 AM by Mary Pope-Handy, ABR, CRS, ePRO, SRES (Byron & Associates)

Awesome!  I've just bookmarked this one so I know I can get back to it again someday.  Thanks!

04/09/2007 01:24 PM by Michael Hutchins - Consumer Advocate, Chicago (Michael Hutchins Ent.)

Good job and thanks for including me.

04/11/2007 10:42 AM by Larry Morris, Oregon Mortgages (NW Lending Solutions)

Great idea, great concept.  Hey, why is my picture not up there? J.K.

happy selling,   Bill

04/11/2007 11:31 AM by Bill Somerset, Realtor, Your Dover NH Real estate agent (Century21 Central Falls Realty)

Great resource spot, I'm bookmarking now!

Thanks! 

04/11/2007 04:12 PM by Rick Turner (Key Realty)

This is a great idea.  I keep having these types of questions, and I will bookmark this for furture reference. Thanks.

04/15/2007 09:50 AM by Joan Whitebook, ABR,e-Pro,CEBA Southern New Hampshire (Buyer's Option Realty Services)

Thank you so much. I really needed alot of this material! This is great.Keep up the good work

04/15/2007 09:52 AM by Christina Williams. TN property search & local insights (First Realty Company)

One of my posts is a resource?  I am honored.

04/15/2007 10:06 AM by Teresa Boardman (Keller Williams)

This post rules...It encompasses everything.

How do we keep it front and center?

TLW...ROAR!

04/15/2007 10:07 AM by "The Lovely Wife"...Broker Bryant's Wife... (Co-Owner Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.)

This is wonderful that you will keep updating and ".... refeaturing this post so new members can see it...." And this answers TLW  good question above.

Thank you for adding me. I, too, am honored.

04/15/2007 10:35 AM by Margaret Rome- Baltimore, Md.-HomeRome.com (TREC-Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome)

Wow, how did I miss this?  Thank you for the mention. 

04/15/2007 11:03 AM by Chris Elizabeth Griffith ~ Bonita Springs Fl Real Estate (Keller Williams Elite Realty, Bonita Springs, FL)

Way cool to this Texas boy!

04/15/2007 11:19 AM by Danny Smith (DISCOVER TEXAS HOMES)

Guess I know what I'll be doing for the next day or two! This'll slow down any progress (used very loosely) that I MAY HAVE been making (in my own mind, right?) towards completing my new, first-ever website! As always though...

Thanks, yet again, for this "ABC's of AR Encyclopedia"! By the way, I've seen this before, but am unsure how to pull it off?!? Anybody out there tell me how to get the AR Logo onto that first-ever website of mine that I'd been working on? No rush now I suppose, since I'll be reading your newly-introduced encyclopedia for some time now. And of course, every post in there (I imagine) will inevitably link somewhere else, so once my ADD kicks in, it could be days!!!

Thanks again guys ... as always, another 5 Rating & another for the Bookmark!

Scott