Land of The Peach & Home of The Braves - Meet Us In Atlanta

RETech South takes place one week from today in the city of Atlanta. We're really looking forward to the event. I've heard great things about last year's event. Brad Nix and Matt Fagioli have been working hard to make sure this year's event exceeds every expectation.

RETech South is a real estate technology conference that packs quite a bit into a single day. There are RE.net luminaries coming from around the country to present and be part of the panels. Scheduled to Keynote is Dave Jenks of Keller Williams who will be telling us how we can get order from chaos.

Yours truly will be moderating a panel on the main stage at 2 pm entitled,"Hype or Help? Does Real Estate Video Work as a Marketing Tool?" The panelists are a varied group of real estate professionals that I feel confident will result in one of the best sessions of the day!

The organizers of the event are using an interesting web based platform to allow the attendees to connect in a social media platform called Crowdvine. I've spent some time in the Crowdvine site for this event and I am very impressed with the clean, easy to navigate elements that bring together the event calendar, twitter feeds, documents and more under one interface. If you're attending the event I highly recommend you join me in using Crowdvine to make your experience even an better one, before, during and after the event.

Joining me on this trip will be two of my business partners, Mark Basile our Executive VP and his lovely wife Sandra. We will be conducting a breakout session at 3:30 pm to introduce ourselves and demonstrate the features of MLBroadcast and show how it generates results for marketing listings, communities and beyond. Come and find out how you can use your still photos and great copy to take advantage of advanced video distribution channels, easily and very inexpensively. We promise to make it entertaining and worth your time. If you come to this session you'll get a coveted RE Barcamp Houston '08 T-shirt and a chance to win free MLBroadcast video episodes and a custom graphic set up valued at $136!

If you haven't registered there's still time! Hope to see you there!

Podcast Interview: DiamondDwellings.Com

The folks in attendance at this years SF Inman Connect event seemed a little more engaged than usual. They also seemed a bit more genuine with regard to their desire to wrap their minds around the new rules and new tools of real estate. I had the opportunity to meet with a few people developing some fairly unique concepts. Among them is an affable guy named Matt Fagioli. We've connected briefly in the RE.net prior to the events. He showed up to REBarcamp and Inman with an energy and passion that was very contagious.

Matt is in the process of launching a new brokerage model called Diamond Dwellings. His concept is to provide area market leaders with a best-of-breed platform that takes full advantage of Web 2.0 while still implementing the best of what he affectionately refers to as "old school" marketing.

I had the opportunity to follow up with Matt and one of his agents, Lane Bailey today via audio podcast. Lane did a great job of extending his social networking chops into the events that took place in SF last week. Take a few minutes to listen to the interview and if you have questions contact Matt, he strikes me as a real straight shooter who will give it everything he has to ensure the success of the professionals that get on board with his program.

I promised Matt we would do a follow up interview next month to see where they stand with their program. Stay tuned!

Check out the interview here:

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