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Throughout life there are a few things that are consistent. Three of those that I readily acknowledge are death, taxes, and change. Change is the one that I’ve realized over the years that you can embrace it or get owned by it. Change is a lot like death and taxes in that sense. You ignore [...]
So it’s been a rough week at Solid Earth. Over the last couple of years we have tried to communicate to our customers that transparency in our communication is critical. To deliver enterprise software well, our company must disclose everything to our customers: our capacity, our strategy, our mistakes and our successes. They need to [...]
An early morning Google search for “real estate predictions 2012″ resulted in 6,890 pages worth of related content. That’s really amazing to me. That’s a decent sized crowd at a tractor pull. By contrast, the approximate current enrollment at Harvard. Or, the number of brain cells I placed in harm’s way on New Years Eve. Almost [...]
Routines are important. Doctors and specialist talk about the importance of schedules and routines from the time we are babies. Routines about when to eat… to get enough sleep… to get enough exercise. Routines also give our brain the freedom to think about something else while we “routinely” go through the motions to get something [...]
Jealously is an ugly thing. But, to be honest, I am really jealous that I can’t attend this event. In November, Solid Earth will be attending Seattle Interactive 2011, a conference for technology innovators that always draws a diverse crowd with a great panel. CTO Robb Dempsey and COO Leslie Cobb will be [...]
Just after our annual Summit Meeting in Atlanta, I was having a retrospective conversation with a top client. He was a little upset, reacting to my announcement that my role at Solid Earth is evolving. I said I was “pulling back” and giving the smart, dedicated people who work at the Company “permission” to do [...]
In the next year or two, your MLS must be able to receive new listings from outside sources – sort of “syndication in reverse”. That’s because in April of this year, RESO passed a new data specification: RETS 1.8. Since then, there have been several good posts about it, like this one from my friend [...]
Regional data sharing is a hot topic for at least two good reasons. First, where there is market overlap, Brokers are forced to pay for two MLSs memberships. Second, when consumers view properties on MLS sites, they only see part of the inventory since listings are segregated into the local markets. Solid Earth has tackled [...]
The Emerald Coast Association of REALTORS and Solid Earth have released a new consumer-facing property search application optimized to work with smartphones such as iPhones, Blackberries and phones running on the Android operating system from Google. There is also a new agent-facing application available exclusively to members of the Emerald Coast MLS. The new agent [...]