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Create spreadsheets online and share them with your associates

The Pro suggests NumSum, if you care to create easily created and sharable web spreadsheets online.

A real estate agent- blogger could find a lot of use for this handy tool.  Keep track of listings, log your commissions, never lose track of your expenses again.  If you're an agent that works for a small company, like me, you'll appreciate being able to share information with your co-workers regarding hot properties, inside information and data relating to the current market. Enjoy!
[link tip passed on by a Flickr buddy, runswithscissors]

I suppose this is as good of a time as any to introduce one of justiNYC's many side projects.  Behold, allow me to introduce Real Estate Blog Pro: This will not be just a run of the mill how-to-blog blog, but rather an ongoing help site for real estate agents who want to learn how to blog and would like some tips and hacks for doing so.  The Pro has a lot of tricks up his sleeve that he plans to share with the real estate community at large.  The first few posts have dealt with the nature of RSS, AJAX homepages, imaging tools and such. All of the content will build upon itself (like a philosophy class) and eventually the Pro will show how to use some of these tools in very unordinary ways.  For example, this week he plans to show how to create email newsletters with tools you didn't even know could be used that way.  In the near future, the format will change to more of a dialogue and question/ answer type of structure.  Feel free to join in and by all means, subscribe to the RSS feed and have new tips and tricks in your reader about 3 or 4 times a week. 

Also feel free to contribute and definately comment. Please keep in mind that the Pro definately does not intend to insult anyone's intellegence by offering tips that some of you out there may already know.  This blog will assume that some real estate agents out there with a voice and no idea how to speak it, may just need a bit of encouragement.   Got a tip or trick you'd like to share? Please submit your tips to agentartist-at-gmail.com. 

an Update regarding other justiNYC and Loft Ninja feeds

justiNYC mashup includes:
justiNYC fotoblog
URbanfoto
Ninjalist (LoftNinja's Real estate Listings)
Real Estate Blog Pro
LoftBlog

For Ninjalist only, check here:

technorati tags: LoftNinja, justiNYC, feeds, RSS, update, links, blogs, mashups

Some terrific iPod hacks for New Yorkers

Visiting the crafty fellas over at Make Blog, justiNYC ran across a couple of terrific NY-Centric ipod hacks that he wanted to pass on to you guys:
1) get the MTA subway map onto your iPod

2)Put Google Maps on your iPod

For a full list of iPod hacks and makes, visit Make here---> Link

technorati tags: ipod, hacks, nyc, subway, maps, google, googlemaps

a new Flickr group for NYC commercial space

www.flickr.com         More photos in NYC Commercial Space for Rent tagged with loftninja

The LoftNinja came up with another pretty cool idea today.  ..well two ideas.
The first: A Flickr photopool geared exclusively for NYC Commercial property for lease that i will leave open for  any real estate person (in the 5boroughs) to post in. The reason for this being a good idea may not be immediately apparent- and this is because it will only become something that other brokers will actually do when you actually do what the second idea requires.
The second: go into your Flickr photostream and find the link on the right side of the page that lets you create a badge. In step 3, select the option for 'groups' and in the 'tags' field put a term unique to your photos. For example, LoftNinja uses loftninja as a tag, therefore only those particular spaces unique to him will appear when you place the HTML code that follows in a blog post or sidebar. Create your own badge and put it whereever you like...with your own tags.  Co-brokering is not required to add to this pool, nevertheless i imagine it'd be nice if we could help each other out every now and again. Its a very simple, free way to put yourself out there. 

I could just keep stuff like this to myself, but what would be fun (let alone, progressive) about that?  Be creative...and share.                                                                                  kill the shade

technorati tags: Flickr, realestate, brokers, agents, commercial, space, property, listings, NYC, newyorkcity

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two new Web 2.0 tools i will be using in the future

The adcloud is going to be a site that I plan to start using instead of craigslist for rentals, i think.  Well see how it picks up but for now it looks like the best idea for classifieds that I have seen in a while.

As for RSS, I plan to clean up my sidebars by using MultiRSS instead of all the chicklets that I have hitherto utilized for providing subscription options for my readers.

Flickr toy lets you make words from Flicks

Check it out here       

Craigslist AutoPoster will be very helpful to real estate agents

Set your posts to a timer and sell sell sell!
-Terrific for people who buy and sell on craigslist!
-IDEAL for real estate agents and brokers!
-much cheaper than paying your little sister to post for you...
***visit SellCraigslist and get yours today...***

How one could MAKE a Loft on MakeBlog

A terrifically NYC useful post on Make Blog for how to make a Loft.   If you live in NYC and are scraping by with one of those "under $100k per year" gigs, chances are you have one (or need one).  justiNYC assumes that it won't be necessary to explain the space issues in the city that demand such an object- lets just say that they are necessary if you plan to not sleep on top of your television.  Most affordable apartments (say under $2000 per month) are like glorified dorm rooms, compared to most anywhere else in the country.  This is why it could be a good idea to try this loft recipe from the Elephant Stairs posse.   

This idea is mainly geared towards college kids building a loft for their dorm room so that they can better utilize limited space, but we hope it inspires you to do more.

Sometimes youll get lucky and find a crib that already has a loft built for you, but don't bank on it.  Hopefully this tip may help you in your time of need.