Author: Aaron Traffas
Twitter clients
Image by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten via Flickr It’s no secret that we’re enamored with Twitter. Our AuctioneerTweet site has over 45 auctioneers listed and it seems we’re continuing to add several each week as more and more auctioneers join Twitter. Twitter is useful. It’s replaced instant messaging and reduced our use of email and…
US Senate designates April 18 National Auctioneers Day
Image via Wikipedia The National Auctioneers Association announced yesterday that Senate resolution 86 was passed on Tuesday. This resolution officially designates April 18, 2009, as National Auctioneers Day. Here’s the text of the bill from govtrack.us. SRES 86 ATS 111th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 86 Designating April 18, 2009, as ‘National Auctioneers Day’. March…
AuctioneerTech releases Internet clerking and bidding platform
Riding high on the recent success of its AuctioneerTweet sister-site, today AuctioneerTech released an open-source Internet-based clerking software and bidding system for auctioneers called AuctioneerTool. Based on common, open source web technologies PHP and MySQL, the client installs on any server with access to a database. The platform currently supports pre-auction bidding and Internet only…
GPPA and MPPA designations – Graduate and Master Personal Property Appraiser
One of the hats that many auctioneers wear is that of an appraiser. Appraisals can be court-ordered or requested by sellers wanting to know what their assets are worth. Many auctioneers, masters of the secondary market, serve as experts on the value of property. We caught up with our friend Jack Christy, Sr., CAI, BAS,…
AuctioneerTech launches AuctioneerTweet, gets scooped
As an effort to build and grow the community of auctioneers using Twitter, we launched a new website yesterday called AuctioneerTweet at – where else – www.auctioneertweet.com. The concept is simple. Any auctioneer with a Twitter account can join and have his or her tweets included in the AuctioneerTweet timeline. A member list on the…