1. Smile, You're on the Net. … As I arrived in my hotel room in New York City this week, I looked out of my thirtieth-floor window directly at a two-story high sign, "685.COM," advertising the web site for 685 Third Avenue. … Wow. … But curiously enough, I did not see any reference to a URL at ground level! … Hmm. … And I smiled this week when I read The New Yorker cartoon featuring a couple talking with the caption, "One question: If this is the Information Age, how come nobody knows anything?"

2. Top Message Board Posts. … You’ll find a number of postings in the Jobs and Consulting -/- Job Candidates and Positions Available folder, including ones from REIS Reports in New York City, for a consultant, and McCary Stevens Associates in Hartford, CT, for a commercial mortgage underwriter. … Remember, if you want to go straight to these postings, you can simply search for a word in them (say, the name of the company) and you’ll go directly to the Discussion or Message. … Click the "Search" button and enter the word in the text box. … Click the Message Board Channel hyperlink or use the URL below.

http://www.pikenet.com/cgi-bin/WebX

3. Web Success--G&E Posts Local Market Data. … As I’ve mentioned frequently, there is a huge hunger for local market data. … So it’s good to see Grubb & Ellis posting one-page summaries (in Adobe Acrobat format) for office and industrial markets around the country. … You’ll find brief market commentaries, absorption and vacancy charts, and market trend arrows. … Do you have a Web Success story? … Send me e-mail. … For step-by-step instructions, go to the PikeNet Knowledge Base and look under the Property and Market Information section.

4. Web News ... Property Web Sites, Where Are You? … One of the surprising things to me has been how slowly owners and managers have been to develop individual web sites. … Two years after PikeNet went public, I only have 28 Business Park, 30 Office Building and 10 Shopping Center sites in the Directory. … See these Categories in the Property Web Sites Channel. … Hmm, what am I missing? … As I’ve written before, register the address of your property, post your property information and develop an extranet to communicate with your tenants. … This week I added two more property sites, Bryan Tower in Dallas (nice stacking plan) and Greenhill Technology Park in Eugene, OR (good community links).

5. Knowledge Base--Finding REIT and Stock Information. … I frequently e-mail questions about where to find information on REITs. … One source to consider is Realty Stocks and Funds, a web site developed by Reid Schott of InRealty. For example, I’ve posted step-by-step instructions for finding information and daily stock prices on office REITs in the PikeNet Knowledge Base. … Click the hyperlink at the top of the home page and then click the last question in the Financial Research section.

6. Searching PikeNet. … By default, when you search PikeNet, you’ll notice that the upper radio button is active, just to the right of the "Search" button. … This means that you’ll search the database of hyperlinks, which is usually what you want. … However, if you want to search for a word in my Dispatches or Knowledge Base, click the lower radio button before you click the "Search" button. … For example, you remember that I mentioned something recently about the importance of adding a "signature" to your e-mail. … Put the word "signature" (without the quotations) in the text box, click the lower radio button and then the "Search" button. … You’ll get a list of documents where this word appears. … Don’t pay too much attention to the percentages (which are generated somewhat arbitrarily by the Excite search engine). … Just look for the appropriate Knowledge Base question.

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