A selection of our recent favorite posts include good housing news, copycats,discounts and more copycats!

'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery' #Facebook  #copycat"

Our favorite story comes from the The Upstart Business Journal, with the incredibly, amazingly appropriately titled story discussing Facebook's "idea" for some new, revolutionary Hashtags. Cuz that's new. The article opens "In a move that continues to blur the lines between the social networks it looks like Facebook is putting together a plan to copy Twitter’s iconic hashtags, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal."

Read the article online. Heck, retweet it! Those hashtags are Great!

http://upstart.bizjournals.com/resources/social-media/2013/03/15/facebook-copies-twitter-hashtag.html?ana=RSS

 

With the Census Bureau and HUD reporting a five year high in housing starts, up more than 27% from February 2012, housing appears to be back to numbers not seen for the last five years. That's good news not just for the real estate industry but also for the financial markets and of course goods and services industries that focus on real estate products. Hopes are high for the summer, even if later that same day CoreLogic CoreLogic stated that 10.4 million mortgages still have negative equity. #partypoopers  (see that...we used an appropriate hashtag!)

AGBeat followed up with a story that noted that the current increase in housing sector jobs is double the National rate. You can read more about that using the link below;

http://bit.ly/Wdus8P (story via @AGBeat)

 

AEI was last weekend and as if the Association Executives didn't have enough to worry about before they went, they sure got an earful while they were there. Some of our favorite posts to Twitter include;

And in a great example of social media presence, one services provider noticed they had gotten a big mention at the AEI conference so they returned the favor with a discount offer!

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We were so happy seeing HaikuDeck not only mentioned but also responding that we decided to #Copycat them and extend our St. Patrick's Day continuing education discount offer through the end of the month. Learn about it by clicking here.

 

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