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Blogging at Ed.Con 2006
Yesterday, Russ Cofano and I gave another blogging seminar, this time in Seattle as part of Ed.con 2006 put on by the Washington Realtor Association.
I thought the day went over really well and considering it was the first seminar we’d given to the “home town” crowd, I found it to be especially fun. Marlow Harris was in attendance (and provided the original photo of Elvis and Liberace).
Russ gave a nice overview over on Realty Objectives [link removed]. (Note that Russ also got us certified as instructors so that the Realtors in attendance were able to get clock hours for our seminar!)
If you were in attendance (and there were at least 200 of you!), then please feel free to give us your opinion of the seminar in the comments. Also, if you decide to set up a blog, then please let us know about it!
Two follow up items from the seminar:
First, I was asked by more than a few people if they could become a contributor to RCG. The easy answer is “Yes!” The hard answer is that it takes some work on your part! I’m constantly trolling the local blogosphere to see what authors are interested and would make a great fit for RCG. If you are interested in blogging on RCG, let me know and start leaving comments. The most common way for people to get invited as a contributor is to join our community by leaving comments… If someone is actively adding value to the conversations on the site, then it is a no-brainer for me to invite them to post articles!
Second, I didn’t to cover either RSS or Feed Readers… For more background, check out this article I published a while back that deals with both RSS and feed readers. Joel also posted an article recently that gives a more up-to-the-minute take on feed reader options.
Thanks again to everyone who attended.
Posted: October 5th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: agents, bellevue-real-estate, blogging, bloginar, realtors, Seattle, seminar, Washington
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from Marlow
Time October 6, 2006 at 6:43 am
I’m so glad I was able to attend the blogging seminar yesterday. It was well-presented, cogent, and full of interesting information. And it was good to see the big brains behind the blogs in action! Oh, and I got a couple of clock hours too. That was a great idea to get the course certified. Thanks for putting that together.
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from 360Digest » A sad and pathetic tale
Time October 7, 2006 at 12:07 pm
[...] I attended an education conference sponsored by the Washington Association of Realtors. One of the seminars was REALTORS(c) and Blogs, taught by Dustin Luther and Russ Cofano of Rain City Guide. There were about 200 people in the audience. All around me were real estate agents and brokers. Dustin was enthusiastic and clearly excited about the topic. Russ was even-tempered and a presence of authority and gravitas. It was a perfect set-up, and the 3 hours were packed with information. However, some in the crowd around me grumbled. A few harumphed. Others were skeptical. What is this blogging thing of which you speak, they asked? Where do you find these blogging things? Who reads these blogs? What IS a BLOG? Yes, it would be fair to say most did not get it. The average age of real estate agents in the U.S. is 54 years old. Now, maturity is not a bad thing. Age can bring experience and wisdom. But what I witnessed, mostly (not totally, but I’d say a good majority) were anachronistic responses better suited for the last century. Yes, all used a computer, all had cellphones. But that’s about it… really. [...]
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from Maureen Francis
Time October 8, 2006 at 5:41 am
What a great con-ed opportunity for Washington Realtors. Would have loved to hear it.
How about a Michigan tour? Unfortunately, I think you might be met by a lot of “blog? what is a blog?” questions here. I’ve tried to get most of my office to use ActiveRain, and only one other agent actually ‘get’s it.’
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from Al Johnson
Time October 9, 2006 at 8:44 pm
I also attended Dustin and Russ’ blog class– nice job, gentlemen. I am inspired. But I’m writing here off-topic in case no one has called attention to this wonderful article by Blanche Evans in the 8/31 Realty Times about getting “Zillowed.” Forgive me if this has been commented on before, but one of my agents just sent it to me today, and I’m a new reader of this site. Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/qjsd5
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from Jerry Campbell
Time October 13, 2006 at 10:51 am
Dustin and Russ…Thanks for putting on an awesome seminar about Blogs at this year’s Washington Association of Realtors Convention. I thoroughly enjoyed all the useful information you provided us in attendance. I really hope you two are invited back in the coming years because most people would find it very informative.
What really grabbed my attention was the difference between our traditional real estate web sites, that are more static in nature vs. the Blog sites that are Dynamic. That alone convinced me I had to go to the next step and start a blog for my business. To me a Dynamic site is one of the key issues with search engines like Google, MSN & Yahoo.
When I got back last weekend…I took one of my domain names and started my own real estate blog for the Bellingham, WA area. Thanks for inspiring me and providing the tools I needed to get going on this project.
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from Dustin
Time October 13, 2006 at 11:22 am
Al and Jerry!
Thanks for the kind words and the great information.
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from Dustin
Time October 13, 2006 at 11:24 am
Maureen,
While I’d love to have a national tour (or would I?), we have no plans for any events outside the west coast. That may change in the future, but both Russ and I are pretty swamped with existing engagements (i.e. work!). 
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[...] name lapse and it was snatched up by, uh, another type of businessman. But not just my mistake, as links to the site remain live on other real estate websites [...]
1. Comment from Cheryl, Broker in L A CA
Time October 6, 2006 at 6:29 am
Dustin, If you ever have an overflow of contributors :-), you can send some my way. In my mission to emulate RCG, I’m just about ready to start “interviewing” contributors for http://www.nelalive.net. Los Angeles orientation is preferred; interesting, articulate, and opinionated is required.