The Countdown has begun!

It is one week, 7 days, until Real Estate BarCamp in Rye, New York.

If you are not going, then it could be a year for all you know or care, BUT if you are going……there is an excitement that is beginning to build!  For me, it will be my 5th rebarcamp, but I am as excited as I was for my first one!

I guess I would say, the first thing that I am excited about is the people!  People that I know and I will have a chance to renew the friendship.  Then there are people that I have met on Twitter and Facebook and now I can meet them in real life (irl). And finally there are people that I will meet for the first time at the rebarcamp and we will continue our connection via Twitter and Facebook until we meet again.

Some of the people in the first category are Liz Nunan, Deb Madey, Marilyn Urso, John Reinhardt, and many more.  People that I know on Facebook but have not met yet irl are Nicole Beauchamp, Dawn Bricker, Deborah Camacho, Gunna Voigt just to mention a few.  And for the third category, I know I will meet many new people at rebarcampRye and we will start connecting on Facebook and Twitter after the rebarcamp is done.

The second thing I am excited about is knowing I am going to be learning a lot of new things from the discussions in the sessions and in the hallways on the breaks, and yes at the bar afterwards!

I will walk away from ReBarCamp Rye with more friends, closer friends, and more tools to help me in my real estate business.  Hopefully, I have given you a peek into why I am going to my 5th rebarcamp!

See you there!

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Top ten reasons why you should be at RE Bar Camp Rye !

10. You have nothing else to do on a Saturday .

 9. You’re kind of curious what all this social media stuff everyone is talking about is.

 8. You want to learn, but you’re leery of all these expensive conferences around. Did you know REBCRYE is FREE

7. You have started to Tweet, but you feel like a Twit ….

 6. Facebook is like a foreign country to you. (Ok ,a really HUGE foreign country)

 5. When you think of using video, you think of how confused you were when MTV launched.

 4. You want to see how other people are integrating technology into their businesses.

 3. You want to share how much you feel like a Twit.

 2. You want to share what you know, meet new people, network and grow .

 1.We will be there to share what we’re doing and how it’s working-we were in your shoes once.

All in jest-but knowledge is growth and power. If your goal is to learn and use social media-to learn how to integrate technology into your business-to enhance-then THIS is the event for you. This isn’t JUST about social media, it is about connecting,engaging,offline,in the real world. We ARE you, who better to talk to then people who are and have been in the trenches as active real estate professionals? We’ve got some great people attending,at all levels of knowledge,some awesome people planning on participating-including Chris Smith from Tech Savvy Agent ,a blog which recently won most innovative blog at Inman this year !

So why exactly aren’t you registering RIGHT NOW ????

RSVP,now-less than two weeks to go ! See you on September 11^th at the Hilton Rye Town. Don’t miss out !

Have any questions-feel free to reach out to any of us and we’ll answer !

A bit of what an RE Bar Camp is, and why there’s one on 9/11

What is a barcamp?

From the www.rebarcamp.com  website:

The concept for RE Bar Camp came from a technology BarCamp event held in San Francisco. Wikipedia defines a barcamp a: An international network for user generated conferences-open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.

RE BarCamp is a BarCamp for Real Estate-what that means-the event is not structured like a typical planned conference. Every session isn’t planned out in advance. No one is paid to deliver a session. Anyone can deliver a session, and attendees are strongly encouraged to participate.

Anyone can lead a session, anyone can participate-or you can feel free to suggest topics that you maybe want to learn more about. It is very much what YOU make of it.

REBarCamp events are run completely by unpaid volunteers; they are typically free because of the support of sponsors.

This is NOT a for profit venture, it is very much a labor of love-to provide a forum where you can comfortably attend,network,learn,grow and participate.

Why 9/11 ?

Having an event on this day was not by design. The New York State Association of Realtors ® has their Fall Business Meetings beginning on September 12^th  .It was suggested at the Winter Business Meeting that a RE Bar Camp be held on the 11^th and they are a sponsor, providing the venue at the Rye Town Hilton.

For all of us ,as a nation collectively ,9/11 is a somber day, a day of remembrance of a most horrific series of terrorists acts that morning.

For those of us in the NYC metropolitan area, our experience of the events of that day, isn’t how we saw it on TV or read about it-it’s how we LIVED it, and how we still live it. Many of us had deeply personal ties and suffered losses of family, friends, colleagues and other loved ones.

The decision to incorporate the obvious significance of the date into the logo was meant in deference and honor to the very acute meaning of the day, and its losses in our area. It was not meant to defame ,or attempt to profit in any way shape or form. Because of the date of the BarCamp,the planning committee decided that there will be a philanthropic component to it-and we are in the process of narrowing down a 9/11 related charity to which a donation will be made (after covering expenses for event, funds exceeding will be donated ).

We hope that you will join us on Saturday September 11^th 2010 for RE Bar Camp in Rye, NY.  For more information or to RSVP go to www.rebarcamprye.com. Follow us on Twitter @REBCRYE .Event hashtag #REBCRYE and join our facebook page at http://facebook.com/rebcrye .

210 Consulting is Proud Sponsor of #REBCRYE

I am excited to announce that we here at 210 Consulting have jumped on board as a sponsor of #REBCRYE in NY on September 11, 2010. This is our fourth Real Estate Barcamp that we have sponsored. For this Barcamp we have created their logos for both their soon to be launched site and also their Facebook Page. We teamed up with Mike Mueller to help design and create all the necessary sites for this event.

While we are sad that we won’t be able to participate in this event in person, we believe the importance of these type of events and therefore were happy to assist in getting this event off the ground. If you have never been to a Real Estate Barcamp before, I would highly reccommend attending this event. People will travel from long distances to participate.

What is a Barcamp? Barcamps are usually day long events that have no schedule or agenda. The discussions for the day are decided at the event by those in attendance. There is no pre-planned schedule. If there is a topic you want to discuss, you simply write it on the schedule in the morning and people who are interested in your topic will come to the session. If you are afraid of having to talk about the subject, that is where true Barcamp spirit comes in. The sessions are not to be presentations. So leave the powerpoint presentations at home. Instead ask questions of the group and engage them in sharing with others.

The most successful sessions I have ever participated in are those in which I did nothing but facilitate where the conversation was going by asking questions of the group and allowing those in the audience share their experiences and successes. If you can achieve this in the session you suggest and moderate, you have reached the pinnacle of what a Real Estate Barcamp was designed to be.

If you were wondering what type of things were going to be covered at a Real Estate Barcamp, some of the things I have seen discussed regularly include things like: Facebook, Twitter, blogging, WordPress, Mobile apps & much much more. I have seen discussions on the mortage market, how to use Microsoft Outlook, and even how to create successful listing presentations. That is what makes Barcamps so wonderful, there is no agenda and no subject is off limits.

So if you are near NY on September 11, 2010, make sure to plan on spending the day at Real Estate Barcamp and learning information on how to revolutionize your online marketing strategy for your real estate business.

Originally Posted at: 210 Consulting- Social Media Advisors

Welcome!

The site has officially been launched!

photo credit: Carter Kelly Kramer

Wodpress Blog, Twitter account and even the Facebook page have all been created.

Now all we need is for you to register!  (hint hint)