About Reggie

Reggie Nicolay, founder of real estate technology blog MyTechOpinion.com, is the social media director for the Realtors Property Resource "RPR", a property database for REALTORS®. As social media director for RPR, Reggie is responsible for brand monitoring and social media strategies, among other functions. He moved to RPR from real estate search and valuation site Cyberhomes.com, where he also served as social media director. Reggie was named one of the 100 Most Influential Leaders in Real Estate for 2010 by Inman News. He previously has served as a Web producer at Internet start-up Markettools.com and regional tech director for Fidelity National Financial.

Recent posts

I’m Bringing Comments Back…

Comments

Alright, so I’m not bring comments back, but Mailchimp sure is with their new WordPress plug-in for improving comments. If you’re a blogger, you’ll probably agree that receiving comments can be a wonderful thing. Personally, I enjoy the engagement, the dialog, the understanding of how people are interpreting my content. The problem is that comments [...]

Google Authorship Markup and the Beginning of Visual Search Cues

The Beginning of Visual Search Cues

Recently Google announced they were piloting a program to start presenting author information in organic search results. As this feature is beginning to gradually roll out, I’m struck by what a huge opportunity this could be for real estate practitioners. Imagine having your quality content displaying to locals via search, with your avatar included directly [...]

HootSuite: Custom Social Media Analytical Reports

HootSuite Pro

I’m always looking to generate meaningful analytics from my social media activities. These analytics help me to understand what’s working, what’s not working, and notice trends I otherwise may have missed. In my arsenal, I have Google analytics and Clicky on the blog metrics side, Facebook Insights for Facebook and use Lithium for Twitter. But [...]

CardMunch: The Handy Solution to Business Card Overload

CardMunch

It’s certainly not a stretch to say that business cards are broken. It’s not that they don’t work at all, but think about it…business cards haven’t changed with the times. We still hand out this paper card that needs to be digitized and entered into a database. In recent years we’ve seen many technologies attempt [...]

How-To: Add an iFrame to Your Facebook Page as a Tab

The Unofficial Guide to  iFrame Page Tabs

With Facebook’s recent changes to page tabs, there’s been some confusion about what is, and what is not possible. This post is to clarify what changes Facebook has made, and show MTO readers how to easily take advantage of the new methods for creating page tabs. On February 10, 2011 Facebook announced page admins could start [...]

Join.me: Your New Favorite Screen Sharing Tool

Introducing Join.me - Virtual Meetings Made Easy

Over the last few years we’ve covered many different screen sharing technologies.  Some were bloated with heavy installs and others had the perfect feature set but were over-priced for the average real estate agent. Today we have an option that may just bridge the gap perfectly. Introducing Join.me, a FREE and simple screen sharing tool [...]

dsIDXPress: Search Engine Friendly IDX

dsIDXPress: Search Engine Friendly IDX

If you’re not already aware of Diverse Solutions….you should be. These guys have some serious cool factor and have been driving innovation with their dsSearchAgent Pro IDX for years now.  Recently they unleashed a beta of a long awaited “indexable” IDX plug-in for WordPress.  And today they’ve ripped off that BETA label! What does this [...]

12 Days of iPhone Apps – Day 12: Qik

Qik Video Streaming for iPhone

About Qik: A few weeks back we were excited to hear Ustream was approved for the iTunes app store. At the time, it seemed obvious Qik would follow suite and make a move for approval. Well it’s happened; Qik (version 4.40)streaming video service has been officially approved by the app store and is now ready [...]