REBarcamp is Right Around The Corner

The first ever Real Estate BarCamp is scheduled to take place on 7/22 at The Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. If you're planning a trip to the Inman Connect conference, why not come in a day early and join in.

Not sure what a BarCamp is? Tune in to Dustin Luther's roundtable discussion Wednesday at 1 p.m. pst and get all of the answers to all of your questions. You can also read a great article on REBarcamp from Inman columnist Matt Carter.

4Realz Roundtable Re-Cap

I'm glad Dustin has asked me to become a regular participant on the 4Realz Roundtable discussions, especially this week. The discussion was centered around Real Estate video. Check it out here:

Carnival of Real Estate # 97 Up At Trulia Blog

Rudy at TruliaBlog posts his picks for this week's CORE 4th of July style. Transparent Real Estate hosts the next Carnival of Real Estate. Click here to submit your best posts.

Podcast Interview - CREST - Center For Real Estate and Social Technology

Ben Martin, the communications and new media director for the Virginia Association of Realtors recently contacted me regarding a new initiative being backed by VAR. It's called CREST, The Center for Real Estate and Social Technology. The center is being billed as a research effort designed to help real estate professionals enter into or improve upon their efforts in blogging and social media. (CREST's efforts are not limited to the Virginia area.)

The first effort is a 14 question survey on blogging. The results will be announced at REBarcamp on 7/22. I had the opportunity to do a podcast call with Ben and Danilo Bogdanovic, a blogger in Virginia that is helping with the launch of the Center.

I think the idea behind CREST could go a long way toward helping real estate professionals create the best mix of social media and blogging tools and look forward to the results of their data mining efforts. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey and help CREST meet their goal of 100+ responses to their first effort.

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4Realz Roundtable Tonight

Tonight's 4Realz Roundtable invites agents and brokers to chime in about the technology tools that they use to help the selling process. What works for you? What doesn't? What's new and exciting? It should be another interesting discussion. Join in the conversation at 4 pm pacific.

The call was great, if you didn't get a chance to participate, you can listen here:

BravoTV Feeds The Need For "Home" Entertainment

BravoTV continues to entertain the desires of the viewing public's appetite for all things home related this season. I'm guessing that with everyone deciding that it makes more sense to travel no further than their own hallways for entertainment this summer, home related television programs will become even more popular than every before.

The popular series "Flipping Out" returns on Tuesday's at 10. A series entitled "Million Dollar Listing" premieres on August 15th. If you're the type who can't get enough of living vicariously through the trials and travails of those in real estate, you'll want to tune in.