This morning I got back from a quick, two day trip down to San Francisco.  It was one of those wirlwind affairs trying to meet with a lot of different people in a short amount of time.  There is definetly a strong buzz growing in the industry about what is happening here at ActiveRain.  Several people that I talked to described how only a month ago they had never heard of ActiveRain, but now everyone is talking.

Since we embarked on this project building ActiveRain only six months ago (launched 5 months ago, yesterday), we felt like we were doing something that could truly leave a lasting, positive impression on the industry.  Many of our members have realized we are doing something truly special, but its just now starting to spread to the wider circle, and it's VERY exciting.  Part of my personal exitement comes from the fact that I just got invited to speak at Inman's Real Estate Connect NYC on the subject of "how online social networking can lift real estate". 

While I was in the area I had a chance to sit down and have a beer with The Real Estate Tomato, Jim Cronin (a great guy I might add)  We had a very lively discussion about how social networks and blogging are very rapidly changing the face of online real estate marketing.  While here at ActiveRain we're attempting to do this at a massive level, he is doing a great job helping individual agents transform their business and realize that the true power of the Internet is fostering the agent, client relationship rather than pulling the two apart as many companies have tried to do.