Inman Connect review
Five quick observations about this week's Inman Connect NYC:
- The declining housing market, credit crunch and looming recession seemed to dominate the conversations. Reason? All panelists in four general sessions (here's the liveliest one ) revolving around the economy acknowledged how critical the problem is with varying degrees of doom. There was not too much room for optimism although John Vogel does propose a solution.
- Brian Boero provides 50 powerful tips to help your business (the powerpoint will be posted here once I receive it)... and he goes beyond the remedial.
- Twitter arrives with real time comment streams on speakers in session. The stream reminds me of a ticker tape, and future conferences might experimentally include Twitter in one of the presentation windows behind the speakers (although I see it could easily distract the audience). Andy Kaufman (working virtually from Berkeley) ingeniously set up a compendium of Twitter streams from the Inman participants' Twitter feeds using Yahoo Pipes.
- With Blogger's Connect II and the Active Rain party, bloggers remain focal points in the conversations around real estate. Surprisingly, the bloggers are still a pretty small group; we're meeting each other twice a year now but the size of the group in NYC and SF seemed the same. One question coming up: "is it too late to blog?". If real estate agents decide not to blog, then their competitors will and still leave them in the dust as blogs eventually dominate search engine rankings. Blogging is still in the early stages.
- Video ubiquity. Sellsius' Rudy live blogcast a portion of the Inman proceedings. Inman "cameras" were distributed to several bloggers to capture the social side of the conference (mostly "Hi there" and a wave, like most home videos...). However, I tried searching for these videos and can't find them uploaded yet.
Nice post. Thank you for the summary. Surprised to read that nobody talks much about SEO. There are a lot of small firms that rank well on searh engines because they use potentially "Black Hat" methods e.g. link farming, three way link routing, etc... Google will be cracking down on all of them this year. Hopefully there will be more SEO sessions at SF Inman Connect.
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Hi Andrew... just returned from NYC... yes, SEO is too arcane a subject for Realtors. Methodologies change too often to keep track.
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Hello Pat!
Our paths didn't cross here in NYC. Sorry to have missed you.
Great re-cap. Can't wait to see Brian's 50 Power Point presentation.
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