Guest blog by Becky Holton. Becky is a journalist and blogger.  She is interested in education technologies and is always ready to support informative speaking.  Follow her on Twitter, @HoltonBecky1.

With social media and online advertising quickly replacing conventional forms of marketing and the increasing globalization of industries, companies are already heavily reliant on technology as a part of their daily operations. Technological developments don't just impact how you brand your business and communicate with employees, vendors and customers. Today, technology is also reshaping commercial real estate and can have an impact on leasing. Here are five ways that tech is shaking up commercial real estate:

Even with all of the advances in the world of commercial real estate technology, it can be hard to see how many of these advances will impact your tenancy. Some make brokers lives easier, while others are internally valuable to property managers. But three technologies will have wide ranging impacts on tenants. Here they are -- and here's why they matter.

2018 is going to be another year where the lines between commercial real estate and the technology industry get blurrier. Here are the technologies that we're tracking and that we see changing how you occupy, lease, use, manage and interact with commercial real estate.

Technology is developing at a lightning fast pace, and it's easy to see how new technologies can benefit many aspects of your business from data management to financial reporting. What may surprise you is that technology also has an impact on commercial real estate for corporate tenants. In commercial real estate, technology is important because it can:

When you think about technological advancements, your mind likely turns to computers, mobile devices, automobiles and other gadgets that you use in your daily life, but technology isn't just impacting the world of consumer products. Technology is having an impact on all facets of life, and commercial real estate is no exception. Advances in technology are reshaping commercial real estate to the benefit of tenants.

Rapid advances in technology are squeezing your company's commercial real estate from both ends. From the bottom up, they are changing the ways that buildings are built and operated. At the other side of the tenancy continuum, new technology is creating new ways to work that require different types of spaces. As you try to navigate these changing waters, here are some of the latest top-down and bottom-up trends that are impacting your company's portfolio, and how to best handle them.