Does The World Need Another Real Estate Social Network Site?
I’ve been digging a lot into real estate social networks recently, and also looking into open source software to run such a network.
There are already several such networks making their way in the world. ActiveRain is probably the most popular, but other sites that have beaten the one I haven’t done yet through the gate include RealEstateWebmasters (which didn’t really start out as a social network, but has started to grow in that direction) and WannaNetwork.
Wannanetwork (which I just joined this morning by way of testing) is especially interesting to me given that it’s:
- Running on one of the open source platforms I’m looking into (Drupal).
- Run by a Realtor®, and one who seems to be getting some benefit out of doing so.
Today I started trying to get my head around the software, but I don’t have too much to show for it yet.
I’ll let you know if I start to sense something more than just a bad case of projectitis and something starts looking deliverable.
Meantime I’m very curious to hear from those of you who are active on ActiveRain, etc. as to what you’d like to see in a real estate social network, what features are your favorites on existing networks, what your experiences have been, etc.
