ActiveRain does not feature a built-in, one-click "Export" button to download your blog posts into standard formats like XML or CSV (which platforms like WordPress or Squarespace easily accept). The link is there, "but someone lost the keys..."After some further research, and the question being asked by Richie, I found out that the original Activerain platform that was built on "Ruby on Rails" and has an issue with the Activerain exported .XML blogs posts. A simple explanation below...Here's the potential challenge/problem, and also the possible solution:Because you cannot natively export your data, migrating or archiving your ActiveRain blog posts requires a bit of workaround strategy. Depending on how many posts you have, here are some effective ways to get them importable.1. The RSS Feed Method (Best for Bulk Text Extraction)Every ActiveRain blog has an RSS feed. While it might not always pull your entire multi-year archive or full-resolution images, it is the fastest way to get your text into an importable format. Locate your feed: Usually, you can find the RSS icon (the little wireless symbol ) next to your profile or blog header. You can see your RSS feed by adding "/RSS" to your AR Blog URL. ie: https://activerain.com/blogs/activebrad/rss Use an RSS-to-XML converter: You can plug your ActiveRain RSS feed URL into online tools or feed readers that allow you to download the feed as an .xml or .csv file. Try https://codebeautify.org/rssviewer/ to preview your RSS feed and view the converted output. It works very smooth. Import: Most major blogging platforms (like WordPress) have an "RSS Importer" built right into their tools, allowing you to upload that file directly. 2. Automated Web Scraping (Best for Larger Blogs)If you have hundreds of posts and the RSS feed cuts off after a certain number of entries, automated tools can crawl your public ActiveRain blog profile and extract the data. Using Site Suckers/Offline Browsers: Applications like HTTrack (Windows) or SiteSucker (Mac) can download your entire public blog onto your hard drive as static HTML pages. Read more here on REDDIT Using Web Scrapers: Browser extensions like Web Scraper or standalone tools like Octoparse can be trained to click through your blog archive pages, grab the Title, Date, Content, and Images, and format them cleanly into a downloadable Excel or CSV spreadsheet. Try https://www.octoparse.com/ or https://webscraper.io/ 3. Automated Copy-and-Paste (The Manual Route)If your blog archive is relatively small (e.g., under 30–40 posts), the cleanest method is often a manual migration. Open your target blogging platform in one tab and your ActiveRain blog in another. Copy the HTML source code of your ActiveRain post content if you want to preserve internal formatting, or copy-paste the text directly. (Note: You will need to manually download and re-upload your images to ensure they are hosted on your new platform and don't break if ActiveRain ever changes its URL structures.) As with all technology and tools, the one thing for sure is constant growth and change. Using AI in business to help reduce the time it takes to find answers and solutions is just another technology that will continue to grow and evolve. Feel free to reach out and contact me if I can be of any assistance. While I am retired and find myself out enjoying the world, I still have the desire to give back to it as well. Looking forward to your continued successes here in the rain! :) "Learn More. Get More. Do More. Be More"

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On November 29th, 2021 - I was run over by a truck pulling a commercial trailer while riding my bike in a bike lane. It was a hit and run. I was permanently disabled that day and now live handicapped with titanium rods in the bone marrow of my left leg and hip. I'm blessed they miraculously caught the driver.I woke up in the hospital after 4 days and some surgery, and already I was seeing the world differently. With no feeling from the waist down, I feared the worst and thought I'd be paralyzed for life. Turns out it was the epidural and pain blockers.Thank God I survived that day and am able to tell the story today.  Here's why I titled this "Seeing the world differently" because it has multiple meanings and application. I saw the world so differently laying in the street in pain and helpless. Just lucky to be alive according to eye witnesses.Then I saw it soo differently from that hospital bed and wheelchair.  The fear of an unknown future really started to settle in and I felt completely helpless and totally  hopeless. I saw the world so differently, in a way I wish I never had. My new set of tools for some time to come...Then they sent me home and for almost three years now I've had to think about, live through, and continue living through the mental and physical pains but also the legal and courts systems. I'm the victim, and now the plaintiff. Geez whiz.Here's why seeing the world differently has helped me survive, cope, and even overcome this incident and all that it has consumed from me. I had vowed to never ride a bicycle again after the accident. I have since gotten back on the horse and started riding again. I no longer feel robbed of the joy! Now I go out and pedal my way through life's up's and down's.Since it was my bike that almost put me into a wheelchair, I now use that very bike as my wheels-chair and it takes me where I could have and never would have walked before. What a concept?!? I need a mini handicapped-plate?!(Who says you can't have wheels in front and back instead of on the sides)I've always been afraid of heights so now I ride my bike to locations I'd never go and I fly my camera in the sky using a drone and I get to SEE THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY even though I've been to many of these locations hundreds and thousands of time. This is a sample of some of my self inflicted therapeutic recovery and the results that come from it. Seeing the world differently from the sky is showing me how much I miss below and how much there truly is to see and learn in the world!!

 

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Thank you George Souto, Debe Maxwell, Kathy Streib and the entire ActiveRain gang for allowing me time to share on your weekly Zoom Call.https://activerain.com/blogsview/5856715/activerain-weekly-zoom-meeting-8-27-2024We reviewed what was covered previously, and then added in some live searches and attendees requests. While there is so much to cover using RPR for the masses, we drilled down on the laser focused searches and tools.What We Covered Last Time:     A. Getting Started - The Setup     B. Run Your Own Property (And preview all reports)     C. Recognize the Volume of Data, Content, Reports etc.     D. See Through Data to "CLIENT VALUE"     E. All US Properties are accessable 24/7 via Mobile     F. RPR Offers Commercial      G. How To Prospect and Farm for Marketing     H. How to Target Market/Laser Focused searches     I. Setting up and Adding Custom Pages to Reports     J. The RPR Activerain Challenge.   My goal was to try and provide everyone with enough tools, education, training, live webinars or on demand, blog posts, user groups, customer support to move forward at their own time and pace. It's just another tool in your arsenal. Here you go with some tools and resources needed to effectively or affectively be able to use PRP Successfully going forward from right here!1. Here are the Canva templates and resources I shared.https://blog.narrpr.com/type/canva/2. Your go-to, one-stop-shop for property data, tools and reports.https://blog.narrpr.com/3. What do you want to learn today and How?https://blog.narrpr.com/learning/?filter-learning_typeI hope our Zoom call was more than just an educational or even training event. I'd think everyone can now see and smell beyond our own noses and recognize that the most valuable things to our clients might be right there in our toolbox!? "Learn More. Get More. Do More. Be More"

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I can't wait to see how many people I can reconnect with and I'm not using this challenge as my drive or for motivation and inspiration. Okay, maybe I am a little.The Activerain Reconnection Rally When Debe Maxwell, CRS asked if I would help bring back the spark through this reconnection rally, I said yes. Why? I smiled ear to ear as I imagined the joy and excitement of reconnecting with some of the veteran Activerain old-timers who helped build and create this "still-going" and amazing network. All of which have very long and deep roots here. Oh, the stories to be told by these folks... but maybe not all shared. lol~ What a great idea to have a sort of reunion gathering and then just let the sparks fly. This is exactly what will happen if I can get these following members back here in the rain!My mission, vision, and goal: Reconnecting with you! It might be more exciting for me than for you!? Can you create a blog post of what you've been up to, no matter what? Share the condensed versions of your stories and journey, I want to know. Join me on a 4/30 - 11am Zoom call I'm co-hosting with Debe Maxwell, CRS. Catch up with new faces and places that sprouted while you were away. Somewhere in all this is a bunch of points if you're still into that sorta thing. Catch up with how the value of your time and content have changed... I'm pulling all the stops and inviting all these members back to participate and engage in raising the AR roof. Can we light that "spark" again, and create some Fire in the Rain!? I believe. We built it and they came. Now can we get them back?C'mon, prove me right or wrong, you know you miss me, and I miss you!~ MY RED CARPET ROLL-OUT AND VIP RECONNECTION INVITES GO TO:Jonathan Washburn, Nikesh Parekh, Bob Stewart, Jeff Corbet, Judi Barrett, Lenn Harley, Rich Jacobson, Laurie Manny, Desiree Daniels, Clint Miller, Jay Thompson, Teresa Boardman, Missy Caulk, Broker Bryant & TLW, Kristal Kraft, Michelle Rosser, Ray Saenz, Maggie Dokic, Renee Donohue, Sharon Simms, Brian Brady, Richard Bolen, Kristin Small, Aida Pinto, Fran Gatti, Rene Fabre, Jennifer Fivelsdal, Jeff Turner, Sarah Cooper, Chris Griffith, Neal Bloom, Kim Wood, Colleen Irwin (formerly Kulokowski), Gena Riede, Craig Rutman, Kathy McGraw, Gary Woltal, Christine Donovan, Marlene Bridges, Dave Roberts, Karen George, Brad Carroll Celeste Sally Cheeseman, Cyndee Haydon, Jim Crawford, Ardell DellaLoggia, Jeff Belonger, Laura Brodniak, Elizabeth Weintraub,  Susie Blackmon,Karen Hurst, Brian Schulman, Tracy Saunders, Cynthia McKenna, Nick Bastian, Judi Morgan, Margaret Woda, Jo-Anne Smith, Terrie Leighton, John Horton, Ginger Wilcox, Brian Block, Donna Harris, Mara Hawks, Tom Plant, Tisza Major Posner, Mary Pope-Handy, Mike Mueller, Sandra Cummings, Ann Cummings, Jim Lee, Monika McGillicuddy and Jay McGillicuddy Chris Tesch, Margaret Rome, Judi Bryan, Michael O'Connor, Maureen McCabe, David Podgursky, Robert Hammerstein and Lisa Hammerstein, Doreen McPherson, Melanie Ross, Jim and Maria Hart, Frank D'Angelo, John Occhi, Robert and Jani Bielenberg, Russell Lewis, Ed Rybczynski, Connie Harvey, Gary Waters, Sharon Alters, Jim Cronin, C Tann-Starr, David Childress, Joe Pryor, Mike Jones, and this is a great start. I also know some of my friends here have passed on, may they all be resting in peace.This does not include hundreds of others I have left out for lack of tagging time.This was the Activerain crew back in the day when I was a community manager. If you were named or tagged and you read this, please leave a comment so I know you were here! After 17 years here, the Activerain Gods know I sure need the points!Can't wait to reconnect with you again. "Learn More. Get More. Do More. Be More"

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Is blogging on Activerain from a mobile device doable and even necessary when you’re out in the world and Mobile? My answer, yes! The fact and reality is I’m doing it right here right now. Why? To see how much effort really goes into creating a blog post quickly and efficiently while out on the road and living your life?I wanted to see how much time it took, how many resources I needed, and how quickly I could get links, images, videos, and more posted on a blog posting. I also wanted to see if there would be any hitches in my giddyup?! You know, bugs and glitches, etc. We all know mobile isn’t the same as pads, and laptops etc.I’m creating this post using an iPhone and I suddenly realize how important this could be to track my progress along with giving guidance and instructions on how to do it along the way?! Also trying to use tags as a test. (a request from Carol Williams) Using Debe Maxwell, CRS and Kathy Streib as an example. It works.☝️Step one: You’ll need a mobile device, I use iPhone. Also Safari browser, Chrome works just as well I’m pretty sure.✌️Step two: Log into ActiveRain, and click write a post at top of page👌Step three: Do as I do, not as I say!! Start typing away… (hint) I used the speech to text tool built-in to my iPhone. I know it’s cheating, but I still have to preview and review the post before hitting submit. I’m sure all my typos, and Siri corrections will make up for the time saved. Lol✌️✌️Step four: Add images, links, and video if you choose.🖐️ Step five: Select your audience, your ActiveRain topics, your hyper LOCAL pages, if applicable, your relative groups, and your outside blogs, if applicable. Add your tags, SEO Title and Description. Lastly click the save button or the orange PUBLISH!Viola - a blog posting thought and idea, created on location, written and blogged out, and then published in literally minutes. And this can be done from any mobile device and from anywhere you are on the planet?! Internet connected of course. This is right in line with my theory, and my motto, and this is for me personally, a better, faster, easier, more efficient, more effective way to get some of my blogging done! You know what they say, practice what you preach. So I am :-)Lastly, I did say video, so here’s a link and an embed to confirm it works?!This is a moonlighting retirement activity I have taken up. It’s seeing the world and places I live and go from a whole new perspective. Imagine if folks used this in Real Estate?!? lol~ https://youtu.be/5JuDEFCc-V0?feature=sharedHere is the video embedded: This is so cool that I can do this here on AR! 😎

 

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