Times Square - NYC - January 2008
Part I - Daniel drops some knowledge
Daniel Rothamel, also known as the Real Estate Zebra, hosted a fantastic and quite inspirational real estate podcast on Friday. By providing concrete real world examples, he always manages to get his point across in way that’s easy to understand. If you want to find out what a real estate superstar is and learn some tips on what it takes to become one, please set aside some time to listen to the podcast. It’s well worth it.
Part II - RE Barcamp
Andy Kaufman updates everyone about the upcoming 2008 San Francisco RE Bar Camp event. If you’d like to attend or even participate, please visit the official wiki. Trulia is participating, will you?
Part III - The Real Estate Conversation
The last part of the podcast is where some real magic happened. Some of the top voices in the real estate blogosphere participated in the virtual real estate round table discussion. The starting line-up included our host Daniel Rothamel from The Real Estate Zebra, Andy Kaufman from My East Bay Agent, Benn Rosales from Agent Genius, Michael Price from MLBroadcast, Jeff Turner from Real Estate Shows, Ben Martin from VARBuzz and myself.
The discussion started out with everyone sharing their thoughts on how they plan on participating in RE Barcamp. Everyone chimed in with some great ideas which, not surprisingly, took us in another direction. Imagine that? Positive thoughts and energy elevating the conversation. The energy was amazing. We started to discuss the possibilities of creating more regional bar camp events. I could feel the wheels turning in everyone’s heads. We had lot’s of great back and forth. No ego’s. Just a bunch of great guys who love real estate discussing how we could help make some changes in the industry.
So here’s the challenge: How can we, as a collaborative group, get more real estate professionals and consumers to join the online conversation?
“If you are what say you are, a superstar, then have no fear, the camera’s here” - Lupe Fiasco
P.S. I love that superstar song…..my new theme song….
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February 18th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Great post Rudy.
I’m wondering how I missed that sign in Times Square.
Perhaps I was just a little overwhelmed. Desert boy in the big city and all I guess…
February 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hey Rudy- You’re right, the energy during that group conversation was amazing. It’s a shame that we got cut off by BlogTalkRadio, seeing that the after show discussion was just as good, if not better that what made it on air.
Looking forward to the next one!
February 18th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Hi Jay!
Maybe they put it up after you were there. When I saw that sign, it had blog post written all over it.
Rudy
February 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Hi Andy!
These are the types of conversations that actually lead to something positive. Although we got cut off while LIVE on the air, everything was recorded for all to listen too.
Same here, the next one will be a doozy…….
Rudy
February 19th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Great conversation. Looking forward to the next one!
February 20th, 2008 at 1:33 am
The answer to how I feel remains in the value and ease of use of the tools. Over the past few month I have explored a lot of social media tools and the ones that stick with most are those that click with ease.
The other part of getting more to join I think lies in being inclusive. There is a certain cliqueness that goes around with users and early adopters of blogs and the such that just turns people off. How about everyone reaching out around there own communities and groups to include other peers in the conversations?