Paul Chaney's (pchaney) Blog

As some may have noticed, I've been absent from AR for several weeks. Truth is, life just got in the way. My mom has been hospitalized for four weeks now and my wife, Amie, and I are in the throes of purchasing a townhouse. That, plus the other routine stuff life is made of, has captured most of ...

My business partner, Richard Nacht, and I have been tasked with the responsibility of writing an article for an international real estate publication on how real estate blogs are being used globally. While I have a good frame of reference for that within the context of the US and Canada, having w...

Lots of web users have no clue about RSS or how to use it. The technology comes off as still too geeky. Well, my friend Lee Lefever of Common Craft has made understanding RSS simple and easy with his short 3 minute (give or take) fun video. Click To PlayWhen you get finished watching the video, c...

A couple of articles I've read recently are worth bringing to your attention:Six Blogging Myths That Are Holding You BackThe Dark Side of Blogging: Warnings from Leading BloggersThe first article deals with a number of myths relative to blogging that the author, Rich Brooks (a friend of mine), su...

In the previous post I mentioned polls and received some comments from Active Rainers who weren't aware polls existed. That's a word to the wise for Ines and I to include links to them each week. We're not attempting to manipulate the results in any way, but neither do we want to deny the privile...

UPDATE: I misinterpreted what the graph intended. I thought that we had come in 5th for the 2nd week. Ines sent me the link to the actual week 2 results. One thing that needs clarification. We are using her AR blog for the contest for the time being, until her new site is ready. Then, we'll shift...

Up until this week, I looked at the real estate industry from the outside in. This week, however, I got an inside view that has given me an even greater appreciation for the role Realtors play.  You see, this week my wife Amie and I signed a contract on a townhouse and I would not/could not have ...

I'm not crying sour grapes by posting this, but I wanted you to see what amounts to the first negative review of our book, Realty Blogging. It's written by Joe Zekas, the guy who runs an incredible site called YoChicago. Everyone has a right to their opinion and here's his...I delayed buying this...

My apprentice, Ines, and I have been hard at work practicing the seven blog posting formats. (Let me retract that statement and replace it with "My apprentice has been hard at work." I've been pretty much watching from the sidelines. :->) While she's expressed not  having the same amount of affec...

My More on Comments post raised a question from a reader. He asks, in reference to the statistics Active Rain reports in the admin console, "What are Clicks?" Let me explain what I believe that metric to be and why it's useful. I've not spoken with Matt or Jonathan about this, but I suspect that ...