Mark Eibner: This is Mark Eibner with Broker IPTV and we are at Inman Connect in San Francisco, 2009. I am in the lobby here with Todd Carpenter and Todd Carpenter is the Manager for Social Media at NAR, congrats on your position there Todd.

Todd Carpenter: Thank you, thank you very much.

Mark Eibner: So what are you finding out here at this year's with the Inman that maybe different some... than some other events?

Todd Carpenter: Well you know I go to Inman as often as I can because this is where a lot of thought leaders come, not just to speak but to come and listen and so even right here in the hallway, this is a great place to be, you meet a lot of new people, you make a lot of great connections and sometimes those connections don't pay off for a year, but this is where you meet them.

Mark Eibner: Yeah how are things going with your new position at NAR right now with Social Media being something that the national association is looking more at as a viable means for business?

Todd Carpenter: Well I will tell you, when I first came on I thought maybe I was going to have to help, almost evangelize Social Media when going into the associations and really its more like I have to... herd all the different people that really want to use it right now and make sure that we kind of do it in a focused way. So I don't really have to convince anyone that this is a great idea that the association, staff and leadership love the idea of communicating and using the best means is obviously really effective way to do it.

Mark Eibner: Anything on the event or on the forefront here for the national associations meeting this year as far as there is going to be more Social Media classes more people in that genre?

Todd Carpenter: There are definitely going to be more Social Media classes within the annual event itself. In addition to that we are going to have a RE bar camp event which will be the day before the main conference which is un-conference for real estate, a great way to share ideas and then we are even going to have an event called WordCamp and this is a WordPress development seminar which won't even have real estate speakers, its all about how to develop WordPress. WordPress is a blog platform that allows the real estate agency or so the ability to get really geeky if you want to is actually going to be at NAR annual.

Mark Eibner: Excellent, it has been a great scene again Todd I appreciate you are talking with us.

Todd Carpenter: Thanks Mark.