Highlights of RETech South- *Mwaah!*, y'all!

Okay, this video contains the purported highlights from RETech South in Atlanta, which I came back from last week. The cool thing about this was that we were streaming live and the “”Mwaah!” went out to my friend @JohnLauber, who was not there at the conference. He had tweeted me first with a hello “Mwaah” and my friends from dakno.tv helped me to return the *smooch.*

And to me that is the beauty of this social media stuff. A friend whom I have never met face-to-face can blow a kiss from Pennsylvania and have it caught and returned from Atlanta Georgia. The information that I am absorbing from this conference (except during my moment of distraction) is being sent out to my friend- and friends all over the country- at the same time I am seeing it. Everyone watching the stream could see how happy Lori Bee and I were to be sitting there.

And this information was being shared freely. Not everyone was as willing or as able as I was to take money from my children’s college fund to fly down to Atlanta, and video of a good deal of the conference was streamed as it happened, and the rest can be found being put up on YouTube, Facebook and Viddler over the next couple of weeks, together with photos, blogs and microblogs of the event.

I have had people say to me, “Is this social media stuff making you any money?” Let’s just say no, for the sake of argument. But how much is education worth? How more pertinent is this information than a CE course that you jam into the week before your license renewal? And more important- how would I have met the people that I had without the interaction afforded me by social media?

And I would never have had a kiss blown to me across 791 miles.

If you haven’t already, go to twitter.com and sign up, then find me (heyamaretto). Then scoot over to facebook.com- you can “friend ” me at http://profile.to/dianeg. Then take a deep breath, go over to wordpress.com and sign up for your blog if you haven’t already.

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Comments

Brent says:

March 27, 2009 at 2:56 am

Great post! The inspiration that came out of REtechSouth is incredible, but I still see so many not ‘getting it’. Social Media is suppose to be social…giving, sharing and learning together. NOT just another avenue to pitch your wares. I learned SO much at REtechSouth, and even more at the various social events before and after the conference. The PEOPLE is what all of this is really about, and events like REtechSouth just afford us the opportunity to take our online relationships, offline or IRL.

heyamaretto says:

March 27, 2009 at 3:05 am

I get so angry when someone tries to make me quantify the worth of these social things. No one expects you to rate or justify a friendship, and this is what you have- a vast extended network of friends.
If twitter were one advertising post after another, you might as well be reading the classified section of the newspaper.

GH says:

March 27, 2009 at 9:20 pm

Your blog is quite impressive. Cool layout, high pagerank and all. What is your secret sauce? There are definitely much to learn from you.

March 27, 2009 at 9:31 pm

Secret sauce? I don’t know- I didn’t know about the high pagerank, and thanks for the kudos re: the design. I really love doing this: that might be it. Standard wordpress.com site with a tweaked header. I have an art background, but the header was just put together on paint, so it is something anyone can do. : )

Susie Blackmon says:

April 3, 2009 at 12:09 am

I love the ‘r u making money on Twitter’ questions from the majority of local realtors… Uh, how is sitting in your RE cubicle waiting for the phone to ring, or for walk-ins, working out for you honey? Guess you can’t see all the buyers for the sand in your eyes.

Look forward to trying to keep up with you here and on Twitter.

April 3, 2009 at 12:26 am

I love your directness! It’s so true! We lost 25% of all of our Realtors in the past 3 years in this area. How is the old business model working? Not so well.

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