What a fun Friday afternoon! My dear friend Linda Aaron, Training and Development Manager for Coldwell Banker Bain and Coldwell Banker Seal invited me to their Summer Tech Summit in Seattle today. What a blast!

Funny, but I don't have to think but a minute to realize how much my life has changed via the world online. As I looked around the room, today was a great example of the power of social media. Many of the attendee's I know online, and several are now my "in person" friends.

Jeremy Blanton did a great presentation about social media tools. He shared several real life stories about what he did, how he did it, and what happened next. I identify with that style very well. It's more about being an explorer and sharing the experience. Jeremy was one of the first people to reach out to me on Activerain back in 2008. It was so much fun to meet an old online friend in person.

 

Always at events like this there are agents that have a list of valid concerns. "How much time does this take?" Well, truthfully, quite a lot... yet like anything we do, as it becomes habit, it takes less time as we go. I think of it like this... We have our life habits. They take up 100% of our time. When we learn something new we have to put in over 100% until we learn the value of the new one, and it replaces some of the old ones.

Personally, I feel so much joy when I get to witness the epiphanies. When a person who is new to medium 'gets it' that online is "dynamic". Blogging is the asynchronous conversation. The power of it happens when we understand that people search for stuff all the time. If we have already talked about it, posted it, engaged other people online about it, we become the content offered up by the search engines.

The power is in the conversation. When people search online for what they want and we have already initiated the conversation they are looking for, that's powerful!

Rhonda Porter, Linda Aaron, Jeremy Blanton at the tweetup.

Two people sitting across the table from me really get this too. Jim Reppond, eXp Realty, and Rob Porter, The Talon Group. (Having some iPad fun...)

So good to see so many friends today that I would probably never have come to know if it weren't for our world online. Thankyou all for a wonderful day.

Jeremy Blanton    Rich Jacobson    Jim Reppond    Rhonda Porter    Linda Aaron    Debra Trappen

Dale Chumbley    Stephanie Baldwin    Nick Church    Natalie Danielson    

Many thanks to Coldwell Banker Bain | Seal, Linda Aaron, and Debra Trappen for a great event!

"Where there's conversation, there's opportunity."

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10 Comments on Summer Tech Summit, Seattle

JUL
09
2011
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sounds like a great time!  I love to learn at events like this!
3:26am • #1
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Rene, It is great fellowship isn't it. There is nothing like sharing with like minds....and great brains.
6:10am • #2
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Hi Rene, Jeremy knows his stuff that's for sure, it must have been quite interesting. I subscribe to his AR blog and enjoy all his posts. Another sunny day in Seattle my friend, enjoy!
11:08am • #3
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Catherine: Yes, it was! I love learning this way. It is always rewarding to hear how someone else applies the tools, creates a philosophy, and puts it to work... then share's the stories.

 
1:09pm • #4
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Charles: Indeed it is... The quality of conversation is very high!
1:10pm • #5
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Hi Greg: I subscribe to Jeremy's blog also. It was great to see him in person. He has a fun style of delivery.
1:12pm • #6
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Rene, it is always fun when people you have been in contact with via the Net for years and you actually get to know them, I am sure when you meet it is like old friends meeting not for the first time but again. Glad you had fun.
6:21pm • #7
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Endre: It's like old home week for sure. I alway's enjoy these events so very much. Jeremy and I use a lot of the same platforms and it was really cool to get them from his perspective. That really enhanced and expanded my view and the possibilities.
7:49pm • #8
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Rene - I find it so amazing that people that I consider among my closest friends now, are people I have met in one form or another over the internet.  For example, Elizabeth Weintraub, a short-sale specialist here in Sacramento.  She and I often do lunch together, or have even gone fishing.  Tech fairs and conferences are a really valuable resource to those in our industry.  We count on those advances to continue our business.
9:12pm • #9
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Myrl: Couldn't agree more... and what is profound about your points is, we get to know people from all over the planet, yet people in our own area we probably would have never met, we get connected because we stumbled on to each other online.
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He also teaches social media for entrepreneurs and small business in the continuing education department at Bellevue College.

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