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Recently I was asked to present at the Connecticut Association of REALTORS Politics Grassroots event.

I spoke on using Social Media to bring forward political issues in our state. I can now say I am hooked.

Have you ever seen TweetCongress? It is a place to find twitter feeds of all the politicians and follow them.

Shout out to Claire McDonough at Community and Policial Affairs for NAR. All her input made me look like a rock star.

Here is the slide presentation I used . . . enjoy

Mobile computing is one of the areas of technology I am exploring this year. Think about it . . . we have evolved. Those who can remember when computers filled a room (yeah me) are just amazed at how fast mobile technology has grown. According to a report I read back in 2009, tech cycles tend to last 10 years and the mobile cycle has taken over in less than two.

I just wrote a post and included 5 tips on how to maxmize mobile tools to help you communicate with your staff, sales people, affiliates and teams.

Here are the tip titles. For full details visit the post here

No. 1 – These tools are for “just in time messages.”

No. 2 – How about on the mobile side of your website, you have easy links to reference check lists, for important information, useful for preparing for clients?

No. 3 – Text message (aka SMS systems)

No. 4 - Mobile Directories:

No. 5 – Knowing that we will be reading this information on small screens, here are some ideas:

One of my favorite website applications ever has to be Picnik.com. I probably use it every single day at least once, and would be one of the sites I'd choose if asked, "Kim, if you only had five websites to take with your on a desert island, what would they be?"

Did I mention Picnik is free? (I have their upgraded/pro version - but they offer quite a bit with their free version as well.)

Sure, I have Adobe Photoshop and I also use that quite a bit when I need to. But for most of my jobs now - I'm a picnik gal.

Some quick and easy things you can do:

• Resize photos
• Crop photos
• Add text, stickers on top of photos (lots of fun fonts)
• Add frames
• Add effects - like some blurring, neon, black and white, tinting, and more

Just upload your photo via computer file or Flickr and have some fun !!!

Some of my recent history.....

No... I don't get anything for talking about them - it's fun to share what makes your life easier day-to-day :)