April 2002, Real Estate Cybertips

Archive of Tricks & Places

John M Peckham III

Jack Peckham ( ) is the Executive Director of the Real Estate CyberSpace Society, based in Boston, MA.

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Real Estate Cybertips:
April 2002

TRICK#1: FREE ONLINE BUSINESS COUNSELING!
TRICK#2: ONE CLICK TO YOUR DESKTOP!
GREAT PLACE #1: CONVENTION IN CYBERSPACE!
GREAT PLACE #2: LEGAL SOURCE FOR US COMMON FOLK!

CYBER MAGIC TRICKS

TRICK#1: FREE ONLINE BUSINESS COUNSELING!
http://www.score.org/
Now, with the click of a button, you can add 11,000 business mentors to your own small business advisor list! This national non-profit group of volunteer business counselors (Service Corps of Retired Executives) was formed in 1964 and nearly 4.5 million Americans have utilized their services.

With their powerful on-line service just insert the topic for which you need help. Up pops a list of counselors for you to pick from. Then just fire away an e-mail covering your issue. These on-line counselors are well versed in how to develop effective business plans and create strategies for business growth along with hundreds of other topics. The service is free, confidential and available to all US citizens.

TRICK#2: ONE CLICK TO YOUR DESKTOP!

We know that a bunch of our readers still use the venerable Windows98. Here's a neat trick that solves one of the little annoyances that crops up when you need to see your desktop and you have several programs open covering it! Here's how to take that annoyance out of our daily routine!

Just copy the file "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Show Desktop.scf" to your Windows QuickLaunch ToolBar. Now whenever you need to get to your desktop in a hurry, simply click on your new QuickLaunch Icon -and Shazam! -There's your desktop! If you have a "Windows Key" on your keyboard you can accomplish the same thing by Holding Down the "Windows Key" and the "D" key simultaneously. This also acts as a toggle so you can re-display all the open programs showing before you cleared your desktop.

Anything to remove annoyances these days!

GREAT PLACES

GREAT PLACE #1: CONVENTION IN CYBERSPACE!
http://www.recyber.com/
These Real Estate CyberSpace Society Folks keep rolling out cutting edge tools and services. The upcoming completely On-Line Virtual Convention with 30 speakers and over 100 booths is another example. Ever wonder what a booth might look like on-line? Check this event out and be sure to join with the 25,000 real estate professionals, homeowners and investors who are expected to enjoy this event on April 18-22, 2002 -- in Cyberspace!

PS Not only is this event free to all attendees -you can win from thousand of dollars in door prizes at the exhibitors' booths -and of course take a shot the giant Convention Grand Prize!

GREAT PLACE #2: LEGAL SOURCE FOR US COMMON FOLK!
http://www.nolo.com/
Yahoo called this Great Place the "Best legal self-help site on the Web." Yahoo!!

Although there are some fee services here (folks discovered they have to eat!), there is a ton of free content including a comprehensive legal encyclopedia and legal dictionary. The Legal Research Center covers the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Laws and Regulations, State Laws, Supreme Court Cases and provides Legal Research Tips.

Of particular interest to CyberNaughts is the special section on Internet law covering such topics as: Domain Names, Rules for Webmasters, Doing Business Online, Consumer Issues, and Trade Secrets.

Big legal source with a lot of free content!

Real Estate CyberTips are provided with compliments of the Real Estate Cyberspace Society.