This one time, at RE Bar Camp (San Francisco) …
By: David Gibbons, Director of Community Relations | July 31, 2008
Last week’s RE Bar Camp in San Francisco was a roaring success; a perfect storm of talented people in the right place at the right time. This video will hopefully give you a taste of what went down and who showed up to the first RE Bar Camp. And if you can overlook my amateur production skills you may pick up a few tips from the discussions I attended on “Web video” and “Blog wars.”
[Soundtrack credit: Orphan by Laptop & Reilly via Open Source Audio]
An observation from both RE Bar Camp and Inman Connect this past week in San Francisco, is that the Realtor 2.0 idea is now crossing the chasm from Realtor to broker. One of the fascinating dynamics at RE Bar Camp was the tension between the fearless early adopting Realtors and the bigger, cutting edge brokerages who see the potential but must take a cautious approach to encouraging all their agents to participate in social media. Real estate agent training in social media marketing is a growing area of need - I think we’ll see some start-up activity in that space before we return to San Francisco next Summer.
Congratulations and many thanks go to organizers Andy Kaufman, Brad Coy, Mike Price, Todd Carpenter and all their helpers and the sponsors!
P.S. Here’s more video from RE Bar Camp - Brad Coy interviewed yours truly at Zillow’s Beer with Bloggers function which kicked off Blogger Connect immediately following (and conveniently downstairs from) RE Bar Camp.
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Video from RE Bar Camp | GeekEstate Blog on July 31, 2008 9:32 am
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Brad Coy on July 31, 2008 12:10 pm
Awesome coverage. I’m so appreciative of your capturing this David. I for one, did not get a chance to get around as much as I wanted to. Great spending time with you guys at lunch and SUPER BIG kudos for Zillows efforts in getting beer for bloggers thrown at Cafe Du Nord that evening.
David G from Zillow.com on July 31, 2008 1:03 pm
Thanks Brad and thanks again for putting it together. Please feel free to re-post the video on the rebarcamp blog.
Todd Carpenter on July 31, 2008 5:22 pm
Great video David.
Jay Thompson on July 31, 2008 7:13 pm
Fabulous job capturing the atmosphere of RE Bar Camp David! Love the editing.
Joseph Ferrara.sellsius on August 4, 2008 7:27 am
Great example of the power of video to communicate. I shudder to think how many words, how many blog posts, would be needed to capture the “spirit” of REBar Camp.
Kudos, David.
Mike Price on August 4, 2008 6:02 pm
thanks for putting this vid together it’s great. And thanks again for co-locating “beer with bloggers” that was a graceful move and went a long way toward capping a memorable event. Houston is next on 10/22 http://www.rebarcamphouston.com
hassan on August 4, 2008 7:09 pm
thank you
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