1. Web Success--NAI Uses NetMeeting for Collaboration. ..... According to Eric Powers, Director of Brokerage Services for NAI, Microsoft’s NetMeeting "empowers our team to be more effective and cuts our costs." Its most powerful feature is "the ability for several of us to view a presentation, a document or even floor plans at the same time and to allow participants in the NetMeeting to take control of the ‘host’ computer and make changes."

Eric and I conducted our own meeting using NetMeeting. It’s a long way from perfect (or even acceptable in some ways) using 28.8 modems, but it is potentially an incredible tool. You have to see it to believe it. The sensation is very strange when you see a person draw an image on your computer screen or take you on a "tour" of a web site using your browser but his mouse. … This will be a phenomenal tool in the future.

2. Play Golf ... Keep Your Job. ....Esther Dyson, author of Release 2.0, writes, "I believe that all the glitz and artificial stimulation offered by the electronic world will ultimately cause people to value human company and attention more." … And Michael Lewis, writing recently about highly wired bond traders, would agree. "Golf is a sport for businesspeople who trade on relationships and finance is, increasingly, a relationship business."

3. New and Notable. ..... The Fountainhead Corporate Park, developed by Interwestern Management Corporation in Phoenix, AZ, has posted an elegant site. … The Archon Group provides commercial mortgage lending and real estate investment management services in Irving, TX. … The CORE Network is a member-owned network of commercial real estate service providers nationwide. … Bankers Capital Resources in Temecula, CA, has created a very interactive site for its lending and financial services. … Beating the crowd to market predictions for 1988, ERE Yarmouth has posted an online version of its Emerging Trends in Real Estate.

4. PikeNet's New Look. ..... For the past three months, Internet Business Solutions, my web site developers, and I have been working hard on upgrading the PikeNet web site. … Within a week, I plan to launch a totally new look featuring Channels, Forums and a new Home Page layout. … I believe that you’ll find it much easier to navigate to the information you need. … And you’ll find many more opportunities to market your services and products. … Launch date is set for Monday, if everything goes smoothly!

5. Knowledge Base: Finding the URL of a "Framed" Site. ..... One of the most frustrating things on the net is to click a hyperlink and go to a really good page that is launched within the frame of the original site. … But how do you find the URL so that you can go back later? … For step-by-step instructions, go to the PikeNet Knowledge Base, select the "Web Related" section and go to the last question. Or use the link below.

http://www.pikenet.com/pike?func=showPublicPage&page= questions/question_web

6. Sponsor. ...... International Council of Shopping Centers’ 1997 Holiday Watch. … "This special ICSC web feature includes Analyst Surveys, Mall Tenant Sales by Category, Seasonality of Mall Sales, Last Minute Rush information, the ICSC Gallup 200 Survey, the "Hot" Gift List and a Daily News Watch. … There is no better way to follow these important retailing weeks!" … Use ICSC’s hyperlink below and then click the Holiday Watch graphic in the upper left.

http://www.icsc.org

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