The Best Test Is A Live Test In Real World Settings.
As Teresa Boardman so kindly pointed out at The Real Estate Weenie, I jumped back on Twitter last night.
I had decided to stop using Twitter and last night someone I would not have expected to be using Twitter decided to "follow me" there. I couldn't resist. I had to see what they were tweeting about. And that was all it took. It appears the RE.net on Twitter has expanded... and I'm easy.
The next thing you know I'm following a link here and a link there and I was enjoying myself. And learning. That's a powerful combination in my book. Before I knew it, I'm telling Dustin Luther that I'd Twitter the NAR Convention with him.
So, this morning I get up and visit Twitter and what do I find? I find a simple comment from NRVLiving to Daniel Rothamel at Real Estate Zebra... "REZebra: how are you liking Utterz?"
What The Heck Is Utterz?
What I found was quite unique. It's a social networking site (with what appears to be less than 500 members) that allows you to create "posts" via your cell phone, then email photos, text and video to marry them into one "Utterance" or "utterz." I couldn't resist giving Utterz it a try. I have to admit, I was surprised by how much I liked it. They provide post widgets, like the one below, or sidebar widgets, like the one now in my sidebar. And they also provide automated posting to Tumblr, Wordpress.com or .org, Twitter, Blogger, LiveJournal and TypePad. This can be done universally (post to all) or selectively, allowing you to decide which of your utterz goes where.
Since the first tests went so well, I'm going to give it a thorough workout... at the 2007 REALTORS® Conference & Expo in Las Vegas. So, I'll be posting about the people, the booths, the conference sessions and the parties I attend. I think the ability to marry the sites and sounds will be very interesting. If you want to follow along, you will be able to see the updates in the sidebar on this blog, directly at the ResPres Utterz account, via my twitter feed, or at a new Wordpress.com blog I set up just for this test NAR Updates at http://narupdates.wordpress.com. If it goes well, I'll do the same at Inman's Real Estate Connect NYC 2008 in January.
So, this is a test. But it should be a fun test, so follow along.
Jeff Turner aka respres
Missy,
We will be having a strict "No Media" rule at the AR party. Of course media types are allowed in, but they must check their media equipment at the door.
Jeff,
If I see you on that cellphone I'll know what you are up to.
hahaha
Jeff,
Nice work, thanks for the hat-tip. I will be uttering as well. The coverage of NAR is going to be enormous this year. . .
Great.........the one time I get to party in the Crib Suite at the Palms and I have to worry about ducking and dodging Jeff's phone...........hahaha..........good thing there is a "show shower" with a button that fogs the glass........
In all seriousness, looking forward to seeing you in Vegas Jeff. Daniel is right...........those that can't attend are going to feel like they have a front row seat, I'm sure.
How do you have time for all this? I barely have time to blog, much less chase every techno-thing-a-ma-bob out there on the internet.
You're a geek, a nice geek, but a geek.
Jeff,
You are going to be the highlight of NAR. Wish I could be there. They are gonna love you!
Jeff,
You are going to be the highlight of NAR. Wish I could be there. They are gonna love you!
Bryant... :)
Margaret... you are way too kind!
As are: Irina, Michelle, Cathy, Josette, Chris, William, Ines, Michelle, Susan, Judy & Marlene.
Linda... off to find you on Utterz!
John Novak... :) I smiled when I got your email. Leaving for the airport now.
OK I have crawled out of my hole and I am back on AR... Geez it's been a week and I have only scratched the surface of my emails lately. Great post Jeff, look forward to seeing you in NYC. Did I hear AR Party?
Come on folks, I wanna come!
Utterz, sound kewl!
Hey Jeff-
Utterz is fun and could prove very useful (?) - well, it COULD! I also toy with JOTT, which allows a voice message sent to specified groups or individuals. The message is sent by phone (you can register a few different numbers - your land and mobile, for instance) also transcribed to be sent as text or email. The email can be in text (of course) and also accesses that same audio file for folks who spend more time on their PC (I meant MAC, MAC - sorry??) than their phone.
They claim it's good for companies - due to voice and text and email features - for communication and "notes to self" It's here at http://www.jott.com/.
I don't believe there is a National Do Not Jott List yet, so I hope I'm safe with the heavy breathing Jotts - wonder how that transcribed...?
To really communicate these holidays, Officemax has given is the ability to "elf" ourselves. Here it is as presented by " The Dancing Avatars": http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9512863342
Feel free to kill this. (JOTT to self: Stop hijacking blogs!)