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Syndication to Real Estate Portals: Problems and Solutions

17AprilMatt CohenProfessionalbrokerage, mls

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

Security Burnout

11OctoberMatt CohenProfessionalsecurity

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

The Four IT Guys

14JuneMatt CohenProfessionalsecurity

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

CCAR’s New RETS Transport Idea

25MayMatt CohenProfessionalstandards

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

Re-Missioning the MLS Organization

3OctoberMatt CohenProfessionalmls

Matt Cohen’s Kickoff Speech for CMLS 2008 The long-term relevance of MLS organizations has been questioned at numerous conferences and on Internet sites over the past few years, but I believe these organizations are uniquely qualiﬁed and positioned to deliver technology and support needed by the industry. If we determine strategically what the MLSs