Rain City Guide

You: An articulate, interesting and dynamic real estate agent/broker with a desire and determination to turbo-charge your online marketing activities. You have a wild streak and are willing to consider the day (potentially sooner than later) when nearly all of your business is generated online (a la Ardell)
Me: A ruthless online real estate marketing [...]

Inman’s Most Innovator Awards will be announced at a the SF Connect conference on Wednesday (7/26) between 5PM and 6PM… I’ve had more than a few requests to have dinner/lunch over the two days I’ll be at Inman, so what I’d like to do is organize a dinner at one of my favorite restaurant [...]

Russ Cofano and I are giving our 2nd Bloginar for agents next week on how to use blogs to effectively generate leads. Interestingly, the sponsor of the event, Coldwell Banker, decided to open up our seminar to all southern california real estate agents and not just Coldwell Banker agents (WOW!)… Not only that, but [...]

Thanks to Tom of Trumba, I’ve been playing around with Trumba’s calendar solutions. They are definitely doing some interesting things and there are some benefits to their solution that go above and beyond the current offerings of Google Calendar I discussed a little while back. In particular, I really like two features they’ve added [...]

Wow!
I just returned from MindCamp2.0… and am now just getting mentally back on my feet enough to write a quick story of my adventure.
What is MindCamp?
MindCamp is an “unconference” organized by self-proclaimed geeks… I view it is a great place to learn about cutting edge computer stuff by the people who are [...]

Barge? Life? Art?
Enter the Living Barge Project.
The Living Barge Project is a large-scale, temporary public art installation by Sarah Kavage and Nicole Kistler that will be moored on Seattle’s Duwamish River for the month of April 2006. Native plants will be installed on an industrial barge, creating a temporary floating island full of [...]

Brief overview of the event…
Moderator:

Jim Reppond, a Residential Real Estate Agent of Coldwell Banker Bain

Panelists:

Nikesh Parekh, VP of Corporate Development of HouseValues
David Eraker, Founder of Redfin
Spencer Rascoff, CFO of Zillow and a blogger
Gordon Stephenson, Managing Broker with Real Property Associates

Jim did an excellent job leading the discussion. I didn’t take notes, but [...]

The Norwegian Constitution Day parade is going on tomorrow, May 17, in Ballard!
The official Syttende Mai site gives the meaning behind the day along with a list of events. For more info, check out the wikipedia entry.
The Seattle Times describes the event as “One of the largest May 17 parades in [...]