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Cloud computing: turning one real estate firm’s pain into cloud 9

by marcy hoffman on March 14, 2011

Keys2Day

Syreeta Saunders-Keys, Owner of Keys2Day

Cloud Computing: experience is still king!

Anyone who has bought or sold a home in the last few years went first to the cloud.  Recently I considered moving and spent hours researching home prices in my neighborhood, looked at countless photos of homes for sale and bookmarked the ones I liked (and the ones I can’t afford).

I expect the real estate sites I search to be fast, stable and that my requests for information to be responded to quickly.

So I  immediately felt the pain that Keys2Day, a Baltimore Real Estate firm, experienced as their website and email kept going down. Now Keys2Day had sought a hosting company that specializes in real estate hosting and lead generation but great reputation notwithstanding, clients were complaining….and no business can allow that.

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Email is dead. Long live……email?

by marcy hoffman on March 1, 2011

Mark Twain said: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” after hearing that his obituary had been published in the New York Journal”.

Perhaps the same can be said for email.

I was listening to NPR while driving and caught the tail end of an interview with a young farmer. I wasn’t paying much attention until I heard the young farmer begin to state that email is so dead- no one uses it anymore. I gleaned that he uses Twitter, texting, IM and social media as his means of communication. And he stated this with absolute certainty.

So is email dead?

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