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I recently got back from the Inman Connect 2010 conference.  It does not get much better than sunny San Francisco, real estate professionals, networking and best of all… technology evaluation!

Were it possible to be three places at once, I would have done so merely to provide RETechnology.com subscribers with the most recent information to build your business and increase your effectiveness. The topics were excellent.  Although I could not be all places, I did manage to prioritize several key seminars, one of which was Reggie Nicolay’s “Plug Ins You Must Have to Rock a Real Estate Website.”

Reggie is the Director of Social Media for REALTORS Property Resource™ (RPR), and well-known in the industry.

In his presentation, he outlined his top eight WordPress plug ins.  For those who are not familiar with this term, a plug in is a software component that can be easily added to a larger software application (in this case, a WordPress blogsite).  Plug ins allow agents and brokers to add components to their blogsite that allow them to play video, scan for viruses, manage the site’s content from an administrator etc. 

It is always interesting to see which plug in technologies professionals recommend. In Reggie’s case, he recommended the following eight plug ins:

1. Gravity Forms
2. Wishlist Member
3. Altos Toolbar
4. Backup Buddy
5. WP Touch Pro
6. Events Calendar Pr
7. Sharebar
8. Meet your Commenters