Archive for April, 2009

Twitter clients

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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 Facebook. Even [...]

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US Senate designates April 18 National Auctioneers Day

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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 31, 2009
Committee discharged; considered and agreed to
RESOLUTION
Designating [...]

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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 events, [...]

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