Trying to bring myself up to speed with things around real estate blogosphere I have came across across the RSSPieces announcement that Mary McNight, the founder and (now former) Chief Marketing Officer of RSSPieces “is no longer part of the day to day operations of RSS Pieces”.

During last week I have e-mailed Mary once or twice and never received a reply. Very unusual of her, since in the past Mary would respond to my e-mails rather promptly- at times within minutes.

On her Active Rain blog Mary wrote briefly that her relationship with RSSPieces went south. Evidently many of the Mary’s social medial accounts where hijacked, but she is on they way to recover them.

So will the pieces at RSSPieces stick together now that Mary is gone? From the comments on RSSPieces appears that they might already be falling apart.

I personally never was Mary’s client and our paths would not have crossed if I was not interested in Internet Marketing and Blogging. Needless to say Mary has my respect and support. Mary had build a strong and respectable profile for RSSPieces. She is well known and respected in various circles of this wonderful new media we call blogging. It is hard to know what really happened and what Mary is planing for the future. Real Estate Radio USA is interviewing Mary today, so I am looking forward to that interview.

I am certain though that Mary will have no problem to be successful no matter which direction she decides to take. RSSPieces on the other hand will have to struggle and really step up a bit, especially now that many of the clients are disappointed and confused.

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I the recent weeks I have been recipient of generosity of many people (most of them I have never met in my life). I am in particular thankful to real estate bloggers for their generous contributions to my defense fund.

I am not sure how I missed that Charles Richey has been diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome but I will be heading to donate to the fund as soon as this article is finished and goes live. I hope you can do the same.

You can read more about Charles Richey Fund here. Apparently only 35% of money needed has been raised so far, and it is my strong believe we can do much better.

If you do not know what Twitter is, I have published a video called Twitter in Plain English just few days ago. If you are going to watch the video now, replace every “family” and “friends” with “business” and “clients”. I guarantee that you will think of at least one way you can use Twitter by the time video is over.

On of the way I use Twitter very often is to let every one know that I have written something on my blog. In order to do that in the past, I had to login to Twitter and and make an update with the url to my latest post. Here where the Twitter Feed comes in. Every time you update your blog with a new post, Twitter Feed notifies your followers automatically.

The set up for the Twitter Feed is simple and once set you can literally forget it. If you write blog posts frequently I recommend to set your blogs feed to be checked several times a day. Twitter Feed is checking this blog’s feed every 6 hours, which actually is a little too often since I do not post here every day. I hope you find this tool as useful as I do. Happy Twittering!

Have you seen it yet? Here is the link. I think it’s great that real estate companies are finally realizing the potential of such websites like YouTube for the growth of their own business. I do find the videos a little cheesy. Here is one for you. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Does your company have a channel on YouTube? What are you waiting for?

Fizber website just got bigger by about… 15,000 pages. Can you imagine? Well this time around it seams like they are trying to provide some useful data about neighborhood safety. Announcing the launch of crime and safety resource on their website today, Fizber’s VP of Marketing Julia Foster was quoted in a press release:

Crime rates are based on local crime statistics from the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department. We reveal the safety from crime for every community in America, and show you how each community compares to other communities nationwide, so you can make good decisions for you and your family.

Not so long ago I posted a video, in which founding CEO of PropertyMaps defended their decision to publish neighborhood data on sex offenders. Fizber’s safety information does not include that information.