Tech Corner

As most of us know, Xceligent abruptly declared bankruptcy near the end of last year. And as those that regularly use Site To Do Business (STDB) know, this site abruptly went off line right around the same time. It wasn’t a coincidence. Several years ago, the CCIM Institute outsourced the operations of STDB. The institute continued to own the domain, software, technology and so on. But the day-to-day operations, including maintenance, training and running the help desk, was handled by Xceligent. Regaining control of the site after the bankruptcy filing was not an easy task and complicated by the courts as well as the unfortunate end of the year/holidays timing. Within a few weeks, the most critical parts of the site, ESRI/business analysts online were back up and continued progress has been made to get the other components online. If you haven’t yet restored your access or are continuing to have difficulties, a master site has been developed. Simply click here. 

 

One last thing. Although the institute has done a fantastic job communicating to the membership, this has sometimes been hampered by the fact that email spam filters often catch emails originating from the institute.  Well over half of the emails sent by the institute never reach you, the members, as a result of being caught in spam filters. Be sure to check your spam filters and mark emails coming from the institute as ‘safe’ or ‘not junk’.