Brainstorming with real estate innovators in Boston & beyond

admin June 23, 2006

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The unconference movement has spawned a nationwide series of self-defining BarCamps, which in turn, are spawning other events and informal user groups. For example, a handful of attendees at BarCampBoston have formed an informal network of Real Estate Innovators and hope to meet monthly as the sign-up poster above suggests. If you’re in Boston, join us tonight, Friday, June 23, 2006 at GeoMancers meeting at MIT to discuss what was hot at Where 2.0. (Email RECafe@mac.com or call 617-661-4046 for details, or to participate in future Real Estate Innovators gatherings in New England.) BostonPodCamp is tentatively proposed for later this summer, August 19-20th?, and BarCampManchester (NH) is also in the pipeline.

Anyone interested in organizing a BarCamp in Yosemite or somewhere else in or near San Francisco for an open-ended unconference — or a just a few conversations on hiking trails, around campfires, or in a bar — AFTER Real Estate Connect SF 2006, July 26-28?

For those who don’t know, Connect is the leading real estate technology conference hosted annually by Inman News in San Francisco (that this blogger has missed only over the past decade). This is the first year they will be offering a Real Estate Software Developers Day. If you can’t wait for that event, there is a BarCamp in San Francisco this weekend, June 23-25, 2006, and like all BarCamps, be prepared to bring your own session topic or demo.

Can’t make it to San Francisco? It’s fun to watch who signs up for local BarCamps (see Boston example), and how related wikis and blog posts spring up before, during, and after the event. So keep an eye on BarCamp San Francisco for real estate related topics this weekend. Anyone interested in organizing real estate sessions at BarCampEarth, a "simultaneous compendium of Barcamps around the world to commemorate
the one-year anniversary of the first-ever BarCamp" August 25-27, 2006?

Categories: Change Agents, RECALL: Real Estate Consumer Alliance, Social Networking, Tech Trends

Host your own unConference

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admin June 2, 2006

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Picnic-style Bubble Hour: “We’re not in Kansas any more”

What a week on Wall Street! How soon will housing prices in Boston respond to the credit crunch? That’s the subject we explored in our blog post last night that’s already been visited by more than 400 readers. Many of them have come from a link on local favorite, BostonBubble.com, so we’re inviting readers, Real Estate Cafe clients, and others to join us TONIGHT, Friday, August 17, 2007 for a picnic-style "Bubble Hour" at the Hatch Shell on Boston’s Esplanade, just before the outdoor showing of the classic movie, "The Wizard of Oz."

As always, Friday Flicks are FREE and start at sunset (approx. 7:30pm, we’ll start gathering around 6:00pm so we can share insights into the falling housing market). If it is not obvious where we are, please call us.

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If you’re a real estate professional, or just obsessed with money-saving real estate tools and toys, as we are at The Real Estate Cafe, join us for a real estate round table beforehand across the Charles River at MIT’s Muddy Charles Pub (TENTATIVELY, approx. 4-6pm). Bring your laptop so we can surf some of the hot new sites featured at Real Estate Connect in San Francisco. We’re also eager to begin brainstorming about the proposed real estate unconference this Fall in Boston.

If it is easier for fellow real estate professionals to meet earlier in the day, or in another venue (or to postpone the technology debriefing until another date, please use this wiki-style event planner to "Talk about it."

admin August 16, 2007

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Topic cloud for strategic planning issues in real estate

Posting this message from the blog room at the National Association of Realtors midyear convention in Washington, DC hoping some other industry innovators see it and decide to "meet-up" here sometime in the next 48 hours. Also, hope others are interested in exchanging insights into promising new innovations in the blogosphere, like the topic cloud on RealEstateBlogSites. Wonder what a convention topic cloud would look like if people were posting live from the conference?

This could be an interesting experiment: how about creating a topic cloud of issues covered in the NAR Strategic Planning Committee meeting earlier today? That was a private meeting, by invitation-only, but it wouldn’t be hard to use blogs to speculate about the kinds of issues the industry and real estate consumers will face in coming years. One good jumping off point for that discussion is Stefan Swanepoel’s report, Top 15 Real Estate Trends: 2006/7. Or you can just jump in anywhere you like by posting a comment below. What are the top 10 issues real estate professionals will face in the next five years? How about the top 10 issues real estate consumers face? Are they the same, or different? If the latter, why?

admin May 16, 2006

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Time for a “Real Estate unConference”? Let’s start planning

Nearly a year and a half after participating in my first "unConference," I remain interested in (1) meeting monthly with other real estate innovators in Boston, and (2) developing a "Real Estate unConference" model that can be replicated by fellow change agents around the country. If you are not familiar with the unconferences, visit our earlier blog post entitled, "Brainstorming with real estate innovators in Boston & beyond" or join us this weekend at PodCamp Boston2:

Would like to brainstorm with real estate innovators (or any
podcasters, bloggers, and social networking gurus) about the
possibility of hosting a "Real Estate unConference" for home buyers,
sellers, and "alternative" money-saving business models (for sale by
owner, fee-for-service, etc). Some idea starters are online at: http://realestatecafe.pbwiki.com/Unconference

admin October 26, 2007

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“Virtual REBarCamp” kicks off series of real estate round tables in 2010

Looking to get a headstart on real estate in 2010? Real estate professionals and software developers across New England are invited to participate in the…

admin December 30, 2009

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