Wonder what all the fuss about Twitter is about, but clueless about how to get started Tweeting? G. Dewald, director of web strategy at Union Street Media, has opened up two avenues for exploring the social networking tool.  more...

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President Barack Obama takes office today holding the power to unleash the second half of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, and there's also legislation in the works to provide an additional $825 billion jolt to the economy (see Inman News story).  more...

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Wondering what Barry Ritholtz -- who last week told attendees at the Inman News Connect Real Estate conference in New York City that housing rescue proposals to date amount to little more than "the hair of the dog that bit you" -- thinks of the government's $100 billion+ backstop of Bank of America and the breakup of Citigroup (the recipient of $45 billion in TARP funds)?  more...

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This year is probably the last one you'll see national TV ads like this 2008 spot promoting April as open house month from Century 21 Real Estate.  more...

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A Wall Street Journal article catches up with David A. Lereah, the former chief economist for the National Association of Realtors who was known for talking up the housing market well into the downturn.

Lereah left the association to participate in a secretive project at Realtor.com-operator Move Inc. in mid-2007, and that project was canceled last year (see Inman Blog).  more...

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At Inman News' inaugural Digital Video Summit last week in New York, we were honored to have Channing Dawson, the Emmy award winning advisor from Scripps Networks Interactive, deliver a keynote address that gave us a peek at some next generation interactive video strategies and their application to real estate.

Many attendees requested links to the videos contained within Channing's presentation which we've posted below as well as how it related to his talk, which will we have available shortly on Inman.com.  more...

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