Attendees at the NAR Leadership Summit in Chicago learned about a competition NAR is sponsoring for state and local REALTOR® associations to come up with game-changing ideas. NAR will fully fund the … Read more about NAR announces competition for game-changing ideas
StrategicMLS.com post on VOW policy clarifications
Tom Jacobson and John Rees have a new blog post explaining some of NAR's recent clarifications of the VOW policy. They're less wordy than I'm prone to being, so I figured I'd link to their good work … Read more about StrategicMLS.com post on VOW policy clarifications
Neither fish nor fowl: Mobile technologies and IDX and VOW rules (Potential CMLS topic 3)
(Note: Shelley Specchio is CEO of the Northern Nevada Regional MLS, Inc., a host of the CMLS Conference in Lake Tahoe, September 30 – October 2. She and I have been discussing topics for the legal … Read more about Neither fish nor fowl: Mobile technologies and IDX and VOW rules (Potential CMLS topic 3)
State-of-the-art VOWs?
Frequently, I do presentations for groups of brokers explaining how VOWs work, why they might want to build them for their firms, and what to expect of other VOWs in their marketplaces. I usually … Read more about State-of-the-art VOWs?
Does ‘search engine’ = benign use of listing data?
I pointed out in last week's capstone post on the "search engine indexing of IDX series" that any policy that permits indexing of IDX sites needs to define exactly what kinds of 'search engines' are … Read more about Does ‘search engine’ = benign use of listing data?
Cybersquatting on brokers’ names (Potential CMLS topic 2)
(Note: Shelley Specchio is CEO of the Northern Nevada Regional MLS, Inc., a host of the CMLS Conference in Lake Tahoe, September 30 – October 2. She and I have been discussing topics for the legal … Read more about Cybersquatting on brokers’ names (Potential CMLS topic 2)
Search engines & IDX Part VIII: Options for moving ahead
We've considered this issue in seven posts: Part I: What's the beef? Part II: Search engine scope and data sources Part III: Search engines indexing, audiences, and their objectives Part IV: "IDX … Read more about Search engines & IDX Part VIII: Options for moving ahead
Current legal issues with VOWs? (Potential CMLS topic 1)
(Note: Shelley Specchio is CEO of the Northern Nevada Regional MLS, Inc., a host of the CMLS Conference in Lake Tahoe, September 30 – October 2. She and I have been discussing topics for the legal … Read more about Current legal issues with VOWs? (Potential CMLS topic 1)
Search engines & IDX Part VII: Miscellaneous items
This posts covers a couple miscellaneous items I wanted to get out before doing the final post in this series. "Static pages" and "RESTful development" Mike Wurzer pointed out that my post on how IDX … Read more about Search engines & IDX Part VII: Miscellaneous items
Search engines & IDX Part VI: Purpose of IDX and broker expectations
We're almost to the end of this line, I think. I took a break for a couple weeks to think more about this and to talk to some thought leaders (and also to do a little of the work for which I get paid … Read more about Search engines & IDX Part VI: Purpose of IDX and broker expectations
Search engines & IDX (note regarding renaming)
For the four or five of you actually following the lengthy discussion on search engine idexing of IDX sites, I wanted to give you a heads up that I have renamed the posts on that topic to shorten the … Read more about Search engines & IDX (note regarding renaming)
Search engines & IDX Part V: Is search engine indexing legal?
(Warning: possibly mind-numbingly boring and long legal content to follow. And I'm not even giving legal advice here.) When I posted regarding indexing and search engine audiences and objectives, I … Read more about Search engines & IDX Part V: Is search engine indexing legal?