As the Social Media Manager for Obeo, I love anything and everything to do with technology and social media. And I have been a faithful RE Bar Camp attendee for sometime now. But it’s amazing to me how many Realtors have no idea what RE Bar Camp is. So let me give you a quick explanation. On the National RE Bar Camp website, they describe it like this: “RE Bar Camp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.”
I love that RE Bar Camp is the open environment. Even though each session has a speaker/leader, this person’s job is to be the moderator. Everyone in the session is invited to participate, to share ideas and opinions. The result is tons of great ideas, loads of interaction, and plenty of fun! But what I love BEST about RE Bar Camp is that it is usually FREE. It’s always hard to believe that something so wonderful and educational can be free. But thanks to hard working event planners, and fabulous sponsors, these events are almost always free.
This past week I had the pleasure to attend RE Bar Camp Orlando, and it was by far the best RE Bar Camp experience I have had yet! I am happy to publicly thank Debbie Kirkland and Chris Brown for putting this event together. You both did an amazing job! Speakers/moderators from all over the country, most of whom are social media Rock Stars, lead fascinating sessions on a great menu of topics.
During RE Bar Camp Orlando, there were 5 session time slots throughout the day, and 5 sessions to choose from during each time slot. The topics included blogging, geo-location, Facebook, Twitter, SEO, Tech Tools, iPad for Real Estate, and much much more. It was hard to decide which session to attend, because they all sounded so good! Here are some some of my favorite sessions. Todd Carpenter, the Social Media Manager for the National Association of Realtors lead a terrific session on technology. Lesley Lambert lead a session on 20 Social Media Tips, that turned out to be my favorite session of the day! Bobby Carroll lead an interesting session on Photo Blogging. Bill Lublin lead sessions on Facebook ethics and on using the iPad for Real Estate.
In spite of all the great learning that took place, the best thing about RE Bar Camp Orlando was the networking! I got to meet IN PERSON some of my best Twitter and Facebook friends. And of course they were even more fabulous in person.
RE Bar Camps are going on across the country. Be sure to check out the National RE Bar Camp website to find a camp near you!
View the Memory Site we put together for RE Bar Camp Orlando here.
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As the chief executive officer and president of Obeo, Glade Jones is the company visionary who sets its strategic direction. He is also chairman of the board and chief liaison with outside board members, overseeing leadership accountability and partner relationship building.








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