REBarCamps vs. 140 Twitter Conference
Posted by Pat Kitano at 5/26/2009 9:29 PM 
Categories: Events and Premieres
Tags: REbarCamp 140 Twitter
Categories: Events and Premieres
Tags: REbarCamp 140 Twitter
After attending numerous REBarCamps (REBarCamp Philly starts tomorrow) and now a part of the new 140 Twitter conference, I can make these observations:
What is surprising is how well attended and vibrant REBarCamps are, and how the level of social media savvy of many real estate agents exceeds the social media experts who haven't applied theory to practice. I know many real estate social media folks get pretty bored at traditional Web 2.0 conferences.
| REBarCamps | 140 Twitter | |
| Focus | Business practical | Developer and marketing focus roughly equal |
| Weakness | Wide variation of social media expertise from newbies to leading-edgers | All things Twitter is a narrow topic. Already knew of most interesting applications |
| Sociability | Everybody knows each other, one big family | Social media more fragmented into cliques |
| Networking | Easy because everybody knows each other | Easy because Twitter introductions are welcome |
| Utility | Everybody on same wavelength - common business interests facilitate opportunities | Twitter and conference participant "tags" make it easy to find people with common business interests |
| Average age | 50 | 30 |
| Participants | No Twitter developers at REBarCamps and no real estate agents at 140 Twitter | |
What is surprising is how well attended and vibrant REBarCamps are, and how the level of social media savvy of many real estate agents exceeds the social media experts who haven't applied theory to practice. I know many real estate social media folks get pretty bored at traditional Web 2.0 conferences.
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