Posts Tagged ‘Real Estate Business magazine’

With all of the talk surrounding the new Apple iPad — the positive talk about what it can do for newspaper and magazine content providers, not the overwhelmingly negative albeit humorous reaction the name itself has conjured — we are extremely excited to see the possibilities this presents for publishers. As print becomes more and more cost-prohibitive — and feature-prohibitive; it’s hard to print video on paper — more publications than ever are taking the dive into digital, including one of our clients, The Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers (CRB), a not-for-profit affiliate of the National Association of REALTORS®.

Their bimonthly magazine, Real Estate Business, said goodbye to print with its January/February 2010 issue and will debut its all-digital format for the March/April issue. We’re excited not only because this new format will be free, forwardable and printable (the print edition was exclusive to CRB’s membership of nearly 6,000 residential real estate brokerage owners and managers), but because we now have the opportunity to add rich media, including video, live linking and lead generation/analytics capabilities for our advertisers. This opens up a whole new world of possibilities for the magazine, one that will surely benefit the CRB Council’s membership which depends in part on advertising to fund its cutting-edge educational offerings for brokers, owners and managers.

Click here (or the picture above) to see a sneak preview of the new digital reader format and all that it can do!

Did you know? : There are a host of exciting tools out there for real-time sharing and collaboration!

Research I am doing for an article in Real Estate Business Magazine on new trends in giving presentations garnered a ton of information about the up-and-coming ways to share information with others.

One Web site you’ll want to check out is www.drop.io. It’s “an easy to use, online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called ‘drops.’” Very cool!

And if you’re looking for a free, screen-sharing software, look no further than www.Mikogo.com. Mikogo is “a free desktop sharing tool full of features to assist you in conducting the perfect online meeting or web conference.” You can share any screen content or app with up to 10 people at the same time, while still sitting at your desk.

So when it’s time to share your notes with others, take a fresh approach. These are just a couple of the MANY sites and applications out there — take the time and take a look around. I bet you’ll be surprised what you can find.