Since I will be joining the others at RE Connect this year, I just realized, I probably won't have much time to Blog and comment while I'm away. Oh No! :-) This will be a very exciting event and I'm certain there will be so many things I'll want to share. How will I keep up with it all? How will I keep you informed of all that's going on around us in the Big City By The Bay? I think I have found a way......
First, there's twitter, which will allow me to create short bursts of mini Blogs. This will be a great tool while we're mobile. Then, there's Utterz, which allows us to be on location, and still post Videos, Text, Photos, and Audio. Man, is technology cool or what? All this can be done from my iPhone and FLIP Video camera.
So if you're interested in what the AR Team and hundreds of other members and friends will be doing for the next 4-5 days, you can check out @BradAndersohn on Twitter, or Utterz.com. To make it easier, I've added a widget to this post so you can get all the latest and greatest happenings from this conference. This will be a ton of fun, I hope you'll enjoy these musings as much as we'll enjoy creating them.
Just click play on this widget,
you can also click on photos for a larger view.
For those of you coming to the RE Connect, I'm looking forward to seeing you again, as well as meeting many of you in person for the first time. To those who can't make it there this year, I hope this will be the next best thing to being there. I've never done a "Follow Me" Blog post like this so I hope it works, please excuse my experimenting here.
I'm out the door, armed and ready with camera and phone, so come along, follow me/us, and enjoy the ride, the journey, and all the fun! :-)
67 Comments on The ActiveRain Gang - Follow Us Live @ RE Connect
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Some of what I hope to be posting here:
Zillow's Beer with Bloggers The Winner of the ActiveRain M2T Challenge Interviews with Other Members and Guests The Trulia House Party and Friends ActiveRain Gathering at Hotel Adagio Photos and Tips from the Inman Conference Winner of the Boxing Match - Rich or Me The Dinner Party somewhere in the SF Audio/Video Clips of the Strange and Unusual
and some Surprises I just Can't tell you about just yet...
Hopefully, we'll also celebrate our 100,000th member joining this week, see Bob's post, he has some points that may be of interest to you! :-)
Brad - that is one cool widget - you bet I will be following you - looking forward to the clips of the Strange and Unusual. Your gas is cheap compared to ours!
Virginia - as you can tell by the date and time stamp on this comment, I'm excited and can't sleep. I am finally going to get to meet some of the many people I have spent hours conversing with online...in person. The widget is cool in that it will let me do everything on this post real time. Enjoy the next few days with Me, Jon, Bob , Rich and Matt. This will be fun and a great experience for all. :-)
Technology is a wonderful thing and we are pleased that you are keeping up with it so as to stay with us and share while you are away. You will have lots of members following you.
Brad, I just clicked on "follow". This will be great. I love ResPres's use of Utterz and am hoping more and more start using that as well. I am so jealous. Have a great time!
Brad, even more reason to have an "I'm away" option on our posts, LOL. Hey, have a great trip and I'll make this a feature in the ThemThem Group to get the word out.
The plane is airborne, and the gang are on their way to the big city now, looks like it will be a beautiful day in San Francisco. It's a bit overcast, but it should clear up soon. First task of the day in SF for me is.....................
Just got into the City, PARKED! Yeah!! Now I'm looking for Missy..... :-) Gonna walk over to the Swedish American Hall on Market Street for the REBarCamp.
hey Brad! Lynne Pope and I will be following you until we find you--- we have arrived!! Heading to RE Bar Camp... we will track you down (334.524.2220)
You guys have fun ! Where is Des and Brian ? I will try and follow along, so bussssy over here. Now, I have to go and give 2 tutorials for the two newbies on AR that took me up on my offer...Wooo Hoooo we comes 100,000 !!!
Be safe, All of you !
PS - Tell Desiree I said no feeding babies Margaritas ..hehehe
Hey everyone, just got back to the room to change and clean up for the Zillow Party "Beer with Bloggers" tonight, just wanted to check in and tell you the REBarCamp today was great! The best part of it all is really just connecting to all these people in person, and truly social networking with some of the best folks in the business.
I thought I'd have my own room, but just found out I am sharing a room with none other than the guy I'm gonna stomp in the Wii Boxing tourney tomorrow, that's right, Rich is my roomy! Look for an audio podcast coming from Rich real soon..
Gary - what a treat, the pleasure was all mine! :-)
Brad, I"m really enjoying your podcast. Thanks for keeping us updated. I"m looking forward to hearing who the winners are for M2T. Tell you roomie Huntsville Alabama said hi! BTW...loving Mixpo! You all behave, and continuee to have a great time!
Brad, I'm back. I am still not able to get any emails or comments by email from AR so am missing all of the SF action...I know everyone at AR is busy but I haven't gotten emails for quite a while and would sure love that fixed. Thanks!
"The Unofficial Poster Child of ActiveRain!" I love it. You've got my vote to make it official. I would love to be stalking you at RE Connect, but can't make it this year. BTW, I've searched for my pic in your background among the other Rain People, and I'm not sure, but is that the top of my head that you've cut off on the bottom row on the left? If so, I'm honored that I made it that far! :O) LOL!
Have a fabulous time at RE Connect and keep us posted on all the gossip... great events.
Brad, the Utterz.com was way too cool! I got to totally catch up on 22 as of now clips you did. I hope you're having a great time. You have helped me learn so much in the past 2 months. I hope that I'm up to speed enough next year to go to this convention. Right now, I think I'm too new and everything would go right over my head!!!
Hi Brad, I have been following you each day. So we are 30 minutes away from the winners of the Make Over contest. My money is on Missy and also ( got to have a back up) Brian. I would guess you will be back on soon.
Rich sounds exactly how I imagined he would. I hadn't a mention of Brian Brady as yet.
Was that Roberta Murphy I saw in the one of the photos?
I sure wish I was there. But as it turned out I have a new multimllion dollar International Buyer in a hurry to close on home in La Jolla, so that bodes well for business.
I will be back later this evening ion hope to hear more.
So good to see you, Brad. Wish we had more time. I found it hard to keep up with all the acitivyt - jsut blogging live was a challenge. Look forward to hearing more about the party.
I didn't know about this "RE Connect" --- I would've gone! I think I will have to give up real estate sales just to learn about Active Rain, and all this bloging stuff! lol!
I didn't know what I was getting into when I signed up but it's too late for me to back out---I am hooked on you guys!
Is this a yearly thing---and is it open to everyone! If so--I will be there next year! Or are you guys doing one down here---in So Cal? Or maybe hold one in Hawaii---then I can take a Vacation and use it as a Tax write off--ha! ha!
Brad, I'm really enjoying your updates. I also think it is making more than just a few of us wish we were there! I for one plan on attending next year, for certain.
Loving your podcast and your interviews! Thanks for sharing with all of us.
I'll be back to add more later, heading home from San Fran now, I'm gonna miss all these awesome people I just spent the last 3 days with... but I'm also looking forward to seeing my wife and kids.....I'M EXHAUSTED!!
I have got sooooo many things to share, the learning experience was phenominal, the conference was jam packed with people and information, and meeting everybody finally. was the very BEST! :-)
Brad, is that your dog in the car? what a beautiful dog! I hope you have a lot of fun. Never tried Twitter, but may give it a try now. Thanks for sharing,
Congrats to Roberta Murphy for winning the iPhone 3G at the Trulia party, sorry I didn't get a picture of that, we had to leave a bit early to go setup our AR party. Way to go Roberta, so happy you won it!! :-)
But I made the mistake of checking the notify me box---I went back to my comment to unchecked it but I am still getting notifications on this post--how do I stop it!
Aida - hahahaha! You're not the first to send me an email like this! lol~ Just uncheck the box to notify you. If you're still getting them, then you broke ActiveRain, great going! I bet you won't make that mistake again. I love you too!
Seriously, If you do still get emailed comments, put in a ticket, there may be a bug in here. That photo of the dog driving the car is probably the culprit! :-)
Jeanette - we sure missed you being there, but I know you were there in mind and spirit. Hopefully we'll meet in person one day soon. Congrats on making it to the Finals and thanks for all your hard work and contributions. Stellar, to say the least! :-)
Harold - hope you were able to keep up with me... I was all over that place just like many others. Now that it's over, I can look back and see how much I really did cover. I was exhausted when I got home. hahaha. :-))
Diane - I have dabbled a bit with utterz, but this will be my first REAL LIVE use of it. I'm glad I was able to do it in a post. Now it's here to reflect on forever instead of 40 different posts, I have it all in one. Very cool. :-)
Duane - thanks for the feature in the Them Them group. I know how you want that away button, but with Internet access available virtually anywhere and anytime these days, are we really ever away? I was out of town for 4 days at this event and though I was away, the technology and tools available allowed me to stay connected just like this post. It will only get better too. I think the out of office sign, or the Gone-Fishin door signs may be a thing of the past. The future brings so much technology, and so fast, you don't want to be away these days or you'll miss it! lol~ :-)
Mara and Lynne - it was great seeing you both. I know Lynne had a great time, I saw the photo someone took of her sleeping while in one of the breakout sessions. They were nice though, it never got posted. lol~
Don Rogers - I hope this widget was useful in keeping you up to date with what was going on in SF. There was some great connecting going on. Hope you'll join us next time. :-)
Diane - there must be something going on with your email host or somehow you inadvertently unchecked the right box on your my settings page. I am getting my email and have not heard of other members not getting theirs. I know Missy had the same issue a while back, can you check with her to see how she got it resolved? If you're still having an issue with it after that, let me know and I'll have the AR Tech team take a look. :-)
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Some of what I hope to be posting here:
Zillow's Beer with Bloggers
The Winner of the ActiveRain M2T Challenge
Interviews with Other Members and Guests
The Trulia House Party and Friends
ActiveRain Gathering at Hotel Adagio
Photos and Tips from the Inman Conference
Winner of the Boxing Match - Rich or Me
The Dinner Party somewhere in the SF
Audio/Video Clips of the Strange and Unusual
and some Surprises I just Can't tell you about just yet...
Hopefully, we'll also celebrate our 100,000th member joining this week, see Bob's post, he has some points that may be of interest to you! :-)