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Posts from November, 2008

As a leader in the online real estate space, you would think that our popular blog, The Real Estate Dispatch (once Real Estate Investing for Real), would have some great articles about how you can use technology to improve your real estate lives. Unfortunately, we failed to deliver . . . until now!

BiggerPockets Tackles Tech

We're going to be making a concerted effort to cover, not only important news and articles for real estate investors, homeowners, and professionals, but also articles that discuss the important technologies we should all be using to improve our real estate lives. BiggerPockets will be taking an active role in helping you explore and understand the world of technology and its role in real estate.

Get Involved Today!

As a part of this expansion into tech, we’re looking for new contributors and guest bloggers to participate. If you write about real estate technology, follow the latest in cool real estate tech, or you’re simply a gadget geek, and you’re interested in becoming a part of our wonderful team of brilliant contributors, drop me a PM through my BiggerPockets profile or shoot me an email and we can discuss your interest.

Notice Anything Different About the Dashboard?

We just launched the first incarnation of the All New BiggerPockets Dashboard!

Some of the most important improvements of the Dash Include:

The most used functions on the site are now found easily on the left of the Dashboard in an easy to use toolbar.
Important website news and updates are all easily visible below the important functions
Logging: Members can now track the activity of their colleagues on the site. See what your colleagues are commenting on, posting to the site, etc!
Latest forum posts: Members can see the most recent forum activity directly from the DASHBOARD to help you find interesting topics more easily.
A New Function Bar: The gray dropdown function bar at the top of the DASHBOARD makes finding what you want on BiggerPockets easier then ever!
Notifications Box: At the top right of the DASHBOARD will appear all NOTIFICATIONS that require your attention, including Reference Requests, Colleague Requests and Private Messages.

These are just some of the many improvements. Of course, we've got a bunch of great new features that we'll be adding to the dashboard in the next few days.

Stick around and check back often!

I thought I'd let everyone know that we're currently working on rebuilding the entire DASHBOARD to help members easily find the most commonly used items, and to enhance the user experience on the site. The new layout should improve usability, big time!

Additionally, we're adding some features to the DASH so you can better keep up with what your colleagues are doing on the site.

Thanks for all of the suggestions and we hope you're also excited by the changes to come.

Stay tuned . . . we're close to launch!