Hopefully, if you’re reading this post, you read my earlier post from Inman Connect in San Francisco earlier this week. That was sort a neat tech moment, written on my phone, a Treo 755, during the conference in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
It was just one of several exciting moments for me, starting with meeting Teresa Boardman the minute I walked into REbar Camp to listening to Kris Berg who is as smart and funny as she is pretty, or finally meeting Benn and Lani Rosales.
Add to that days of meeting and listening to bloggers from all over the country like Jonathan Dalton and Jay Thompson from Phoenix, or Kelley Koehler (AKA Housechick) and her husband Chris, or Missy Caulk and Maureen Francis, Andy Kauffman and Vicki Moore .
All of these people have in common a relationship through AgentGenius a national real estate blog started by Benn and Lani. The blog, a family enterprise has been nurtured and grown through their efforts and in a relatively short period of time has become nationally recognized. Earlier this year, I began reading the blog and shortly after, I was invited to start writing. I enjoyed the blog, I found that it was itneresting and diversified. There were articles on business models, ethics, staging, technology, news, and a wide range of topics. There was industry news as well. It was on this blog that the News of the NAR- DOJ settlement was first broken to the real estate community.
Like anyone, I appreciated the writing and the writers at AgentGenius because they were who I was familiar with, and who, I became friendly with over spaces of thousands of miles. And though I didn’t take the quality of writing for granted, I did become accustomed to it.
Today; the following appeared in Inman News;
The Inman Innovator Awards honor forward-thinking technologies, Web services, business models and innovators in online real estate, brokerage and media companies….
The Agent Genius blog took honors as the “Most Innovative Blog.” Agent Genius is a popular multi-author real estate blog that is designed by and for real estate agents. The company features posts about new real estate technologies and business models, as well as discussions of industry topics and trends.
Congratulations to all my fellow geniuses, and especially to Benn and Lani Rosales for their vision and their tireless efforts to build a place worth visiting.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Jonathan Dalton // Jul 26, 2008 at 11:17 am
It was a pleasure meeting you as well, my friend!
2 Kris Berg // Jul 26, 2008 at 11:40 am
Bill – You were absolutely one of my highlights! Now, let’s see if we can all recover in time for New York.
3 Missy Caulk // Jul 26, 2008 at 11:51 am
I’m so jet lagged, still on S. F. time. Hopefully, be better tomorrow. Last night before leaving, Lani twittered we’re at Starbucks down from the Palace. That worked! Maureen and I walked down and said goodbye.
4 Bill // Jul 26, 2008 at 1:18 pm
@Jonathan- You are the man I aspire to be- You make it to Philly when the Eagles are playing and you have a seat in the box! Even if you like the Bucs
@ Kris – Do you think you’ll be able to fit that in with the TV career and movie shoots? A star has been born!
@Missy I’m still on SF time too – off course I’ll be in LA until Tuesday – It was so nice meeting you and Maureen and your wonderful daughter
5 Jay Thompson // Jul 26, 2008 at 5:28 pm
It was a pleasure and honor meeting you Bill!
6 Lani Anglin-Rosales // Jul 26, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Bill, meeting you was seriously one of the biggest highlights of the trip!!!
You nailed it by calling it a “family enterprise” because we do function well together offline and we all know each other personally as well as professionally. LOVE having you around Bill, keep up the great work here, at AG and in the RE world!
PS: Sheila’s a trip, we really really enjoyed spending time with y’all!
7 Vicki Moore // Jul 27, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I agree with Lani. Meeting and spending time with you and Sheila was definitely the highlight of the event. You two are quality people.
8 Bill // Jul 27, 2008 at 5:50 pm
@Jay The honor was all mine! – Well mostly mine – Well maybe it was good for both of us – But I hope it was at least as good for you as it was for me!
@Lani – Words cannot express – Or at least I can’t It was a blast hanging with you IRL Now I gotta figure out how I get to Austin for the Improv festival..
@Vicki (((Hugs))) from both of us. You’re my favorite parking lot parkner (get it, I made a spelling joke – see, see)
9 Maureen Francis // Jul 29, 2008 at 12:32 am
My only disappointment at Inman was that you were cut short at the microphone when you were asking a question. I hope they have you on a panel next time!
10 Daniel Rothamel, The Real Estate Zebra // Jul 30, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Bill,
It was great to get to see you again. The time was only too brief.
AgentGenius does rock, even if I am a bit biased.
11 Bill // Jul 30, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Maureen; I have an opening for representation…
Thanks for your kind comments.
Daniel – We need to do that TV show – I know you;re a big community guy now, but I’m just sayin’
12 Benn/agentgenius // Aug 1, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Bill, I hope that you’ll forgive my arriving late to your party, but like most of the rest of the folks that attended, I’m barely catching up from a week away.
Most sincerely, I enjoyed meeting you and the lovely wife.
I knew from the minute I saw your first comments around the blogging community that you were in a league of your own, not only professionally, but as a person.
Thanks for the kind words, Benn
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