Important Considerations When Adding Products and Services Clareity was privileged this year to have an amazingly smart yet approachable anti-trust attorney, Claude Szyfer, speak at the 2012 MLS Executive Workshop. There are potentially anti-trust considerations for real estate industry organizations in day-to-day operations and policy making, especially as they expand the scope of products … Read more
Is it Time for a Syndication Bill of Rights? The MLS industry is a buzz about syndication, especially after Clareity Consulting’s MLS Executive Workshop in March teed up the topic and a vibrant discussion among MLS executives ensued. Matt Cohen, the Chief Technologist at Clareity, gave an overview of syndication today and blew up … Read more
Take a look at the Google chart below – it’s interesting to see how, while information security, authentication and privacy issues continue to grow and news articles call ever more attention to privacy, the number of searches being performed on the subjects – an indicator of interest – decreases. It’s so easy to close … Read more
How Does YOUR IT Guy Respond to a Security Audit? Just last week I was interacting with four organizations regarding significant information security vulnerabilities I had identified. Each had a dramatically different reaction to the news that they had issues to deal with. It reminded me of the Jewish Passover Seder (ritual feast), during … Read more
One of the exciting changes in the RETS community has been the formation of the “Research and Development Workgroup” (R&D WG), which solicits and review submitted business cases from the real estate community and identifies how RESO can contribute to the benefit of that business process. The submitted cases are reviewed with representatives from … Read more
