Congratulations to Sefora Catana!

Congratulations to Sefora Catana, Sales Representative and RE/MAX Twin City Realty Inc., Brokerage, on her new social web presence branding package!

Congratulations to Napoleon Wilson

Congratulations to Napoleon Wilson, Sales Representative at Sutton Group - About Town Realty Inc., Brokerage, on his new social web presence branding package!

Congratulations to Asif Khan

Congratulations to Asif Khan, Sales Representative at RE/MAX All-Stars Realty Inc. on his new social web presence branding package!

Congratulations to Draga Corona!

Congratulations to Draga Corona, Sales Representative at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Signature Services Inc., on her new social web presence branding package!

2012 Predictions: Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb.com

2012 Predictions

1. This year's Best BigCo, Amazon.com, will launch a media-focused social network. Kind of like what MySpace used to be. It will be to a place for you to socialize around your reading, listening and viewing activities.

2. Twitter's usage will begin to wane, due to squeezing from Facebook and Google . Maybe then Twitter will sell to Apple. Heck, predictions are no place for maybes. I predict Apple will buy Twitter!

3. Google's Chrome browser will make dramatic inroads into Microsoft's Internet Explorer, coming within 10-15% of it by the end of 2012. This will be due to mainstream people finally abandoning IE in droves. By the end of 2012, Chrome will have close to 30% of the market according to Net Applications (it currently has 17.6%) and IE will have just over 40% (it currently has 52.6%).

4. Facebook will have initial teething problems with its Timeline, but by end of 2012 it will be seen as a triumph - as millions of people begin to use Facebook over 2012 as their digital memory bank. I don't know if that's a brave (new world?) prediction or not, but right now there are a lot of skeptics about Timeline. So I'm firmly betting on Timeline being a big success for Facebook in 2012.

5. Music acts will start to truly tap into the power of the iTunes LP. Currently most iTunes LP releases are simply a PDF file with a bonus video if you're lucky. I predict that in 2012 many more bands and musicians will include multimedia in their digital albums and the braver ones will try to emulate Bjork and create stunning "app albums". This is a bit of a re-hash of my music prediction last year, but I really want to see widespread innovation in the digital album!

6. Bonus prediction: Bill Nguyen of Color fame will convince Silicon Valley VCs to part with $100 million, to fund an amazing new type of smart TV. It will have 4D, Internet telepathy and a revolutionary new sensing feature called Smell This®. RWW Editor-in-Chief Richard MacManus will thoughtfully blog that it "may be the next Google." The TV will flop before the ink is dry on the last VC cheque. A few months later, the futuristic telly will be re-branded as a way to consume Facebook frictionless sharing "on the big screen."

[p.s. I love Bill's spirit, I really do. I hope he does try for another New New Thing in 2012!]

Those are my predictions, now let me know yours :)

See Also

• 2012 Predictions, Mobile Edition: Dan Rowinski
• ReadWriteWeb's 2012 Staff Predictions (And What We Got Wrong in 2011)
• 2012 Predictions: Alicia Eler
• 2012 Predictions: Curt Hopkins

via readwriteweb.com

Predictions...what do you think of this list? Do you have some of your own to share?

Google+ add multiple Administrators for Business Pages

Improvements to Google+ Pages
Google+ Pages have already provided brands and businesses a new means of connecting to and deeply engaging with consumers. In the weeks since launching pages, we’ve been listening to your feedback and we’re pleased to make some of the most oft-requested features available.

• You can now delegate up to 50 named managers as administrators for a page.
• A new notification flow will ensure that these managers stay in the loop on all the activity that takes place on a page, giving managers the ability to stay involved in page conversations.
• We’ll now show an aggregated count of users that have engaged with your page, either by +1’ing it or by adding it to a circle. This way, both you and your page’s visitors can get an at-a-glance summary of who is interacting with your page.

via Google Blog

Tips for Using Google Plus for Real Estate

via thesocialmarketingtouch.com

Have you read our post about using Google+ for Real Estate? We've launched our Google+ Business Page https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108288662120559691197/