SEATTLE, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- ActiveRain, the nation's largest social networking site for real estate professionals, has been named Most Innovative Media Site by Inman News, the leading independent real estate website and media news service.
ActiveRain was chosen from among five other finalists in the Most Innovative Media Site category of the annual Inman News Innovator Awards. Other category finalists were "60 Minutes" Multimedia Article Site, BusinessWeek's Hot Properties, Curbed.com's real estate network, The New York Times' Real Estate Site, and The Wall Street Journal's RealEstateJournal.com.
"ActiveRain is honored to have been recognized by Inman News as the Most Innovative Media Site of 2007," said ActiveRain CEO Matt Heaton. "This prestigious award reflects our commitment to continual innovation and is a tribute to the more than 40,000 real estate professionals whose ideas and suggestions are making ActiveRain better each day."
The honor, one of five awarded in different categories at the Inman News Real Estate Connect in San Francisco, highlights companies who have "demonstrated extraordinary levels of innovation through the use of technology or the Internet that enhance the real estate transaction for consumers, positively impact the real estate industry and redefine key business models within the market."
Prior Inman Innovator Award winners include Google Earth, Century21 ClickIt, RealLiving, Curbed.com, ApartmentRating.com, NY Times Real Estate, Metrocities Mortgage, Cendant LeadRouter, Fidelity PHD, E*TRADE, E-LOAN, Lending Tree, Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation, among others.
The Inman News award follows the July launch of The ActiveRain Referral Exchange, a ground-breaking online exchange designed as the central repository for referrals for the real estate industry. The ActiveRain Referral Exchange enables referring agents at ActiveRain to communicate with other agents using ActiveRain to make referrals when there is a good match.
About ActiveRain
ActiveRain is the nation's largest social networking site for real estate professionals. More than 40,000 real estate agents, mortgage lenders, appraisers, title company officers and others in the real estate industry participate in the network to exchange ideas and generate leads. For more information or to participate in ActiveRain, visit http://www.activerain.com/.
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