Conferences

I’ve attended more industry conferences than I can readily count.  With my destination-shopper mentality, I tend to grumble a bit under my breath about the less-than-perfect efficiency of these events when I can’t just get what I want and move on.  While I believe they are necessary, I also see them as a microcosm for what is both great and frustrating about this industry so many of us call our own.

Last week in Orlando I attended both the REALTORS® Conference & Expo and a session from BloodhoundBlog Unchained.  There was no escaping the tremendous amount of excitement, enthusiasm, cooperation, collaboration, and innovation, yet I still flew home daydreaming about what I would do differently.  So here are the seven things you would find in this young curmudgeon’s perfect conference:

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First thing this morning we issued a media advisory announcing the press conference and webcast of our formal launch, which will take place on July 23, 2008 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco! 

To get all the details click here.

See you in San Francisco!

Posted by Kevin Doell

I found a great web site called “TechPresident.com” where I read that “the Internet is the dial tone of the 21st Century.” (not sure who gets credit for that gem of a quote: either Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry, or David Weinberger. Read platform.) This site outlines a platform of all the good things that can arise if the U.S. develops a top tier Internet infrastructure.The site’s outstanding little hook is to provide a dazzling array of social media tracking charts and graphs on the narrowing field of presidential candidates. For example:

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