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I am at the RosenShingle Resort attending ReBarCamp Orlando. If you’re in the real estate industry you may be familiar with Rebarcamps. They are peer to peer opportunities for learning and sharing.
On my Facebook profile IMentioned that I was going to be there, and someone wanted to know what applications there were to justify [...]

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As I write this, I am in a hotel in Western Pennsylvania, where ReBarCamp Pittsburgh will take place tomorrow.
I’m writing this post because of a few conversations I had recently with friends of mine. It seems that there was a conversation about whether ReBarCamps served any purpose. Concerns were expressed that [...]

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I spent several days last week teaching the SMMI CSM course to a group of top agents in Chicago. I left there Saturday to attend the wedding of my best friend’s daughter in Sarasota Florida, but I find myself in Tampa this morning waiting to fly back to Chicago for ReBarCamp Chicago,
You may be familiar [...]

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September 11, 2001 – was a world changing day. I remember going to work in my car listening to the Howard Stern show on the radio, when Howard started talking about a plane running into the World trade Center. The first thought that went through my mind was that a small plane had [...]

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Tomorrow morning I fly out to Atlanta for ReTechSouth.
The conference has grown into a pretty substantial it event describing itself as;
A place where agents, brokers, lenders, builders and many other real estate industry practitioners could join together to collaborate on how technology can improve business
Sounds pretty good doesn’t it? And I’m very impressed [...]

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2008 was a tough year. And its not one I’m sorry to see leave.
The challenges we face in business are just  part of our business, which is now and has always been cyclical. But  2008 will always be the year that I lost my best friend, suddenly, without explanation (not that [...]

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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 [...]

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Yesterday I got to meet a number of the people that I have been conversing with, arguing with and agreeing with for several months.
In an very limited structure these people gathered together from all over the country to talk about what they do and how they can do it better.
Tagged on to the INMAN Connect [...]

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For years I have avoided going to Inman Connect. I go to Century 21’s International Convention. I attend two NAR meetings , and several committee meetings. I attend REOMAC conferences because I am a member, and I generally have two brainstorming group meetings a year. Its a lot of travelling, [...]

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