Summer Tech Summit, Seattle
What a fun Friday afternoon! My dear friend Linda Aaron, Training and Development Manager for Coldwell Banker Bain and Coldwell Banker Seal invited me to their Summer Tech Summit in Seattle today. What a blast!
Funny, but I don’t have to think but a minute to realize how much my life has changed via the world online. As I looked around the room, today was a great example of the power of social media. Many of the attendee’s I know online, and several are now my “in person” friends.
Jeremy Blanton did a great presentation about social media tools. He shared several real life stories about what he did, how he did it, and what happened next. I identify with that style very well. It’s more about being an explorer and sharing the experience. Jeremy was one of the first people to reach out to me on Activerain back in 2008. It was so much fun to meet an old online friend in person.
Always at events like this there are agents that have a list of valid concerns. “How much time does this take?” Well, truthfully, quite a lot… yet like anything we do, as it becomes habit, it takes less time as we go. I think of it like this… We have our life habits. They take up 100% of our time. When we learn something new we have to put in over 100% until we learn the value of the new one, and it replaces some of the old ones.
Personally, I feel so much joy when I get to witness the epiphanies. When a person who is new to medium ‘gets it’ that online is “dynamic”. Blogging is the asynchronous conversation. The power of it happens when we understand that people search for stuff all the time. If we have already talked about it, posted it, engaged other people online about it, we become the content offered up by the search engines.
The power is in the conversation. When people search online for what they want and we have already initiated the conversation they are looking for, that’s powerful!
Rhonda Porter, Linda Aaron, Jeremy Blanton at the tweetup.
Two people sitting across the table from me really get this too. Jim Reppond, eXp Realty, and Rob Porter, The Talon Group. (Having some iPad fun…)
So good to see so many friends today that I would probably never have come to know if it weren’t for our world online. Thankyou all for a wonderful day.
Jeremy Blanton Rich Jacobson Jim Reppond Rhonda Porter Linda Aaron Debra Trappen
Dale Chumbley Stephanie Baldwin Nick Church Natalie Danielson
Many thanks to Coldwell Banker Bain | Seal, Linda Aaron, and Debra Trappen for a great event!
Originally posted on Activerain.com, July 9. 2011.
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