I've been out for the last ten days, and I've got a large number of emails in my inbox. Lydia, Nicole, Ben, and James were working hard to answer your questions this week, while Bob, Matt, Jonathan, Sarah and I attended Inman's Real Estate Connect San Francisco. The event was great for this community we even won and innovator award at the technology conference. I saw a lot of Rainers there and I believe reached out to a lot of new ones. There was so much going on that it I'm still recovering.

At the conference we announced the winners of the Project Blogger Contest, Mary Pope-Handy and Frances Flynn Thoresen. The team chose to have the $5,000 prize go to Care, but more on that later.

Hugh Macleod of The Gaping Void was the keynote speaker and he gave an awesome speech on "Kula" and "Social Objects." The concept of social objects is an important part of understanding connections and the transfer of meaning.

Bloggers who attended Connect please be sure to tag your posts with "connectsf" so they can be picked up and viewed by other attendees.

I'm sorry for not getting back to a lot of you sooner, but I'll be working through to get back to you ASAP.