Blogging from Connect
I am now in San Francisco, here to attend the Real Estate Connect conference later this week. The format of the week is pre-conference unofficial blogger day session tomorrow organised organically by a group of 30 bloggers mainly from the US at something that has been called RE barcamp. Barcamps are a tech event held by geeks usually as an organic meeting exchange – so we had to have RE Barcamp!!
On Wednesday the conference starts with a Bloggers Connect session through till 3pm when the conference starts. That runs through the remainder of Wed, all of Thursday and half of Friday – as ever a jammed schedule of which you have to make trade-offs as to what to attend.
I have chosen this year to blog from the conference on 2 formats – rather than just one ! – this blog which is very much an internal blog within the industry I will use to share observations and insight into the US market and developments online – it will be a bit “bitty” but hopefully interesting and insightful.
I will use the Unconditional blog to post a couple of observations which will summarise the conference from the public’s perspective sharing what I think the trends observed at the conference and the new technology ideas.
Check out the schedule of the conference and let me know if there is anything here which may be of interest or question you have always wanted to know about the US market or online.
July 22 2008 11:01 am | Blogs and News
Ross Brader on 22 Jul 2008 at 11:59 am #
This session would be interesting to get feedback on: How Agents Can Leverage Web Video to Sell Homes
Ross Brader on 22 Jul 2008 at 11:59 am #
And this one: Using Video the Right Way
Alistair Helm on 22 Jul 2008 at 1:20 pm #
Ross
You are a firm believer in video – how is the portable video camera going, I’ll get some feedback on users of it over here I am sure.
Ross Brader on 23 Jul 2008 at 7:25 pm #
The camera is great, just have to sort out some decent software. Not sure if http://www.wellcomemat.com are represented at connect – but an example of what can be acheived is here http://www.wellcomemat.com/home/services/TheSobranGroup/showcase
Ross Brader on 23 Jul 2008 at 7:33 pm #
I think an HD camera is probably going to be the way to go and have placed an HD clip as a test at http://www.sellrealty.co.nz/vimeotesthd.htm – it’s a clip I grabbed off vimeo – amazing quality even when full screen mode used. A whole range of compact video cameras have been released in the USA at less than $180 each see:
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Kodak-Enters-the-Camcorder-Market-with-Zi6-35330.htm
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/DXG-Announces-HD-at-the-Size-and-Price-of-the-Flip-Mino—New-DXG-567V-HD-35312.htm
Alistair Helm on 24 Jul 2008 at 2:25 am #
Ross
It is interesting because today I spoke with quite a few realtors all armed with their “multi-function digital cameras” – they look like normal still versions but take HD video – this conference (the blogging section) looks more like a press conference as everyone seems to be videoblogging!
The examples from Wellcomemat are great – the one I looked at had an excellent “fly-in” on Google to show the proximity and aerial perspective and then a street level fly by (video camera version) – speaking of this we will soon be able to have Street View from Google, which I believe is launching in NZ in October.