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A blog about the current happenings on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network.  What's new, where we're going, updates and more...
RECENT BLOG POSTS
 Where Ben, Bob and David discuss the vision for ActiveRain in 2016 
01/23/2016
(Does Al Roker still do the weather on the Today show?)We recently wrote about the RE8 Workshop that Ben was planning to do in Linthicum Heights Maryland on Monday, January 25th.Unfortunately, in conjunction with our on the ground organizers, we've had to make a really tough call and postpone RE8...
01/20/2016
On Friday, January 22nd at 9am Pacific Time (12pm Eastern) ActiveRain will host a webinar to discuss the current state of ActiveRain, what we've done in the last six months since taking over the site, and also what's coming up for 2016. In this webinar, Ben Kinney, Bob Stewart and David Wiggs wil...
01/19/2016
Help build the new ActiveRain: Become a beta testerWe’re improving ActiveRain and we need your help! We’re recruiting a small group of ActiveRain users for early access to new features. As a tester, you’ll spend time beta testing features  that are still in development by our team. We’ll use insi...
01/11/2016
Throughout 2009, ActiveRain hosted our RainCamp series around the country. If you were lucky enough to attend, you got to spend an entire day with Ben Kinney and me as we taught real estate agents how to market their business online.In 2015, Ben took a page from the RainCamp playbook and expanded...
01/08/2016
Today is another big day for ActiveRain, as Zillow Group just announced the pending sale of ActiveRain to the Ben Kinney family of companies. The sale is expected to close June 30, 2015. Here’s the word directly from Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff:“Ben Kinney taking on the ownership of ActiveRa...
06/19/2015
In May of 2015, 34% of the traffic on ActiveRain came from a mobile phone.  The growth we are experiencing on that area of the site is tremendous and we love that the community is taking full advantage of it!ActiveRain has made a major investment in the past year to make sure that your blog posts...
06/08/2015
Please join us in wishing Kerrie LaGuardia all the best as she begins the newest chapter in her life!Kerrie La Guardia has been a huge part of our community for the past six years and has touched a lot of our members.  As a community manager, Kerrie’s job is to make sure everybody is playing nice...
06/04/2015
Notice something different? We just did a major overhaul on the content that appears on the ActiveRain home page! Every day on ActiveRain we receive nearly 1,000 blog posts and questions from our amazing community.  One of the biggest challenges for us is to find the most thought-provoking conten...
02/10/2015
Back in November, we made some significant updates to the Question & Answer site on ActiveRain.  The results have been impressive, we are seeing hundreds of answers every day and the traffic to that area has increased by 12X. But, we still feel like something is missing. Great conversations are s...
01/23/2015