I’ve been practically ignoring the Top of Mind Blog for the past month while preparing for Mortgage Revolution . I’ll talk more about MRev in another post later on. Right now, I want to tell you about a company that … Read More

Last week I posted an article about the loss of productivity our office (and more specifically me) experienced after upgrading from Office 2003 to Office 2007 with a Microsoft Exchange Server. This post is to serve as the yin to … Read More

Over the Thanksgiving holiday week our entire office upgraded from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007, and also upgraded from ‘normal email’ to a MS Exchange server. This transition, like many, had its hiccups. First and foremost spell check no longer … Read More

Mary Eyler and Mark Green Truth be told, for years I felt I had a pretty darn good understanding of effective marketing practices and CRM. However, over the last eight months Mark Green has put me back into the student … Read More

Ben Martin just made a very insightful post at AgentGenius.com regarding the tricky and slippery slope of calculating Rate of Return in Social Media. A must read. Measuring Return on Investment in Social Media Marketing is fuzzy math Today someone … Read More

LinkedIn has long been a successful tool for users to build their online, professional identity. Notice that I stressed the word professional. The status update is a relatively new feature of LinkedIn; and in my opinion has been a very … Read More

Want to Close Loans Quicker? In the new world of mortgage disclosures, HVCC and ridiculously overzealous underwriters, timeframes to close a loan have grown.  It is not uncommon to have a closing take 30 plus days.  But in the midst … Read More

Remember when email was the killer app?  Sure, it’s still all that, but Generation Y is all a-twitter with a wave of new communication technologies.  Faster.  More interactive. Posterous Illustration Blogging’s all the rage today – well at least it … Read More

Call it epiphany by accident.  I never understood why anyone could want or need dual monitors – unless they’re in graphic design or day trading.  So when Sherwood found an extra Dell 19″ monitor laying around, he set me up … Read More

Google announced a few updates to Google Reader last week that I thought were interesting. For those of you who are relatively new to the blogosphere and do not know what Google Reader is or how and why to use … Read More