A quick graph to show how the topic of Media Transparent – media – makes for more popular, entertaining copy than the topic of Transparent Real Estate – real estate. It took only a few months. Thank you for reading both.
Tag Archives: Real Estate
Real Estate Brokerage Sites and Broadcast Media
Real estate brokerages need to provide more information about the housing markets to attract a loyal following of local readers. Just providing the latest listings is old hat. Real estate blogging has proven effective, but very few agents do it due to the challenges of writing and maintaining a blog. Simply put, brokerages can now [...]
Proliferation of Feed-based Social Networks – Part 1
The real estate industry has been the most pragmatic in applying social media constructs – blogging and social networking – in order to develop lead generation systems for its professional practitioners. Real estate’s Active Rain continues to be the most active participatory social network devoted to a vertical. Its success spawned the recent introductions of [...]
The Big Reader Divide between Mass Media and Social Media
We in the social media implicitly understand that the mainstream media readership are still getting their feet wet when it comes to finding, reading and subscribing to blogs (unless they look like MSM like Huffington Post, or are blogs residing within MSM like the NYT). I discovered a contrary example in a Washington Post article [...]
Patrick Kitano is founding Principal of Brand into Media, a unique strategy group working with corporations and organizations to develop social and media-based strategies that engage hyperlocal communities.I post all hyperlocal articles first on my "The Local Network" column on Street Fight, a hyperlocal business journal, and then archive these articles here on Media Transparent. I also contribute to Social Media Today, Daily Deal Media, The Customer Collective, and Quora.
I speak on the future of social commerce at conferences associated with social media, local advertising and real estate.
