How top agents keep tech in its place

The constant churn of new apps, software and services available to real estate agents presents new opportunities to boost productivity -- or create distractions that prevent things from getting done.

Three agents who have figured out how to use technology to simplify their work and personal lives will share their secrets at a panel titled "Using Technology to Simplify the Transaction -- and to Simplify Your Life" at Real Estate Connect New York City, which runs Jan. 16-18 at the Grand Hyatt New York.

Greg Fischer, broker-owner of Fischer Real Estate in Fort Worth, Texas, together with Kendyl Young, an agent with Los Angeles-based Teles Properties, and Katie Wethman, principal of the Wethman Group, a Keller Williams Realty affiliate in McLean, Va., will open up about the tools they use and how they use them on the Connect panel.