Archive for December, 2007

Bob Bemis at ARMLS is looking for a few good geeks

By: Greg Swann, BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, December 28th, 2007, 8:19 am MST
Category: General Information

This is email from Bob Bemis at ARMLS:
We’re going to do some focus groups in January as part of a long range strategic planning exercise. The groups are people with a specific focus (luxury housing, or technology oriented agents) or in a similar sales demographic (large broker, small broker, top producers). I’d like one group [...]

Introducing a new contributor: Dru Bloomfield

By: Greg Swann, BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, December 28th, 2007, 8:12 am MST
Category: General Information

We’re adding a new voice today, Dru Bloomfield, a Scottsdale Realtor and life-long technologist:
Dru BloomfieldRealtor, TechnologistAtHomeInScottsdale.com
Speaking in her own behalf:
Having been involved in technology for more than 30 years (yes, I built 8-bit computers in college for fun), and armed with graduate degrees in business and computer science, I find myself in the midst of one of the [...]

Michael Wurzer Opines on theMLS

By: Jay Thompson, PhoenixRealestateGuy.com
Posted: Monday, December 10th, 2007, 8:56 pm MST
Category: General Information

Michael Wurzer is the President and CEO of FBS Systems — the company that will be providing our MLS service come July 1, 2008.
Here’s Michael talking to Joel Burslem on Inman TV at the NAR Convention in Vegas a few weeks ago. In the video, Michael discusses the evolution of the MLS, MLS consolidation, [...]

Open MLS Initiative Dies in Maine

By: Jonathan Dalton, DaltonsAZHomes.com
Posted: Wednesday, December 5th, 2007, 4:01 pm MST
Category: General Information

The details soon will disappear behind Inman’s subscription filter but the basic gist is Dave Barry has pulled the plug on his Open MLS initiative for lack of funds.
For those who had not heard of the initiative, here’s what I wrote 14 months ago on Active Rain about it:
But there is a dollar to be [...]