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 Web resources

Internet Public Library: Business & Economics - provides web links for commerce and industry, the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and the management of economic systems.

Geographical Names Board of NSW - assigns names to New South Wales places and geographical features and alters or discontinues geographical names.

Glossary of Terms - from the Real Estate Institute of Australia.

Investing in real estate - tips from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Property Web - statistics, trends, the market

property.com.au - puts buyers in touch with sellers, property managers in touch with renters, commercial property owners in touch with tenants.

Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) - has a bookshop and a research data section.

Residex - suppliers of information on the property market in NSW, QLD and VIC.

University of South Australia - library links to many Internet property websites.

University of Technology, (Sydney) - UTS has extensive library resources in the property area.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

For this program area the following forums may be of interest:

• Agents Online - a US forums site for the real estate industry
• Property Investing - discussion forums

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 10 April, 2007

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