Thursday, April 30, 2009

Video Montage from RE BarCamp Portland


Here's a quick video montage of clips taken during RE BarCamp PDX.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Fun with Analytics: An RE BarCamp PDX Exclusive!


We attended Portland's first Real Estate BarCamp (REBCPDX ) this last week, and captured some exclusive video footage of Lorelle VanFossen giving her session on analytics.  In this quick clip she explains the importance of analyzing the key words on your website or blog.  The example she uses is hilarious!

Charles Turner of the Portland Real Estate Blog looks on.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

On Social Media Classes and 2nd Graders


Here's a topic that's been bugging me for a while now:
Self proclaimed social media "gurus" teaching social media classes.

No offense to anyone because I know sometimes the best way to learn something is to teach others, but this is getting ridiculous.  Lately, its like everyone I run into is a social media guru.  Is there a qualification for that nowadays?  Could there be another set of letters to add to the growing collection on your business card? (another of my pet peeves in the R/E industry)

Anyway, the whole point is...  Having a facebook account doesn't necessarily make you qualified to teach a class on how to use facebook as a social media marketing tool.

-Jeff

Monday, April 6, 2009

Google + Twitter = Twoogle?



There has been a lot of talk the last week or so about Google looking to acquire twitter and using the real time search that twitter is now becoming known for to add to their already dominant search functionality.  Will it happen?  Who knows?

Having real time results built in to search is pretty intriguing to a lot of people and I would imagine if the rumors are true, Google is willing to pay a pretty penny for this feature of twitter.