REBlogWorld and New Media Expo

REBlogWorld & New Media Expo Oct. 15-17, 2009

When I’m not writing here I have several other blogs which get a little of my attention.   One of them at this point in time is the Real Estate Blog World and Media Expo site.

This is a conference held each year in Las Vegas.   Last year it was in September.   I participated in a session at the conference last year and found the Blog World conference to be quite an educational experience.   This year I’m on a panel to talk about Hyperlocal Media and Real Estate.   The description for the session is:

“We have known for years that real estate is local; the best agents are those who know their own communities. With the advent of blogging and social networking, real estate professionals have been given the tools to really hone in on their communities on a hyperlocal level. A hot topic outside of real estate, companies like the New York Times and Chicago Tribune have also started hyperlocal initiatives. Come hear a diverse range of views on hyperlocal media and real estate from Realtors, as well as traditional and new media profession.”

Even if you have never heard the term Hyperlocal media before; you are familiar with it if you have read this blog for any time at all.   It is one of the reasons I’m on this panel.   This is a hyperlocal media blog.   In plain english, it is a blog about a community and its events and hot simply a blog about Tucson real estate statistics and listings.   We have those here, but we also have a lot of event information and photos of Tucson and the desert Southwest.

I’m not just speaking at this years conference.   I’ve also taken on the responsibility of being the Webmaster, or Blogmaster for the REBlogWorld.com site.   There is a lot of work that goes into an event blog.   Especially when that even it just over two weeks away.   There is a lot of new content and adjustments being made on an almost daily basis (sometimes hourly basis).

Once the event is over there are follow-up blog posts, photos of the event and sessions and posting of videos of those sessions to the site.   It has taken up more of my time than I had initially scheduled for the project.   But it is an amazing conference.

More than Real Estate

The thing I like best is the REBlogWorld conference is a mini one day event embedded into the bigger, MUCH BIGGER BlogWorld and New Media Expo.   The overall conference features speakers who are on the cutting edge of new media and technology.   People who are involved in media well beyond real estate.   This means I get to hear and speak to authors and writers who are on this cutting edge; there are too many to mention here but visit the Blogworld expo website and you will see who is going to be speaking. All together there are more than 300 speakers for this 3 day event.

I get to see what new technology is being rolled out in the coming months from the vendors and sponsors section of the expo as well.   Last year I was exposed to new technologies and was able to try them on this blog before they were in general release.   I’m sure there will be even more this year.

This is just one reason the posts here have been fewer than normal.   There are other things that have been taking up time as well (building the “EASY BUTTON”) is one of these.   A little education and a little research are a couple of other I’ll share more about this week.