BrokerIPTV:  Hi.  I am Mark Eibner with RE BarCamp Denver and I have the great honor to be speaking with Rob McNealy and Rob McNealy is the most followed individual on Twitter at least in Colorado he claims, not in the US, but in Colorado and welcome Rob.

Rob McNealy:  Hey, thanks for having me out.

Interviewer:  Hey, great, great speech today.  Great talk today.  I think there is a lot of people that are still confused about what Twitter is.  What's the simple essence of twitter?

Rob McNealy:  It's conversation.  It's that simple.  Being able to engage with lots of different people in lots of different places, efficiently, easily, across the world, that is all it is.  It's nothing more complicated than that.

Interviewer:  Yeah, it's really just the ultimate networking tool.  It's like being able to attend 20 parties at one time instead of one party a month.

Rob McNealy:  Exactly.  The beauty is that you could have a conversation about anything any time of the day.  If you have a decent amount of followers, you could talk about anything and there will be someone that at least is knowledgeable about that, that has some experience in that, that has interest in that, and then once you connect with those people, it's just great.  So, I am... some days, I am on Twitter on Friday nights you know screwing around[Phonetic] and I will get nostalgic and listen to some old YouTube videos, music in the '80s for instance.  I will post I am listening to this Random Man that I used to like back in the '80s and a big conversation will come up and that leads to things like what they were doing when that band was popular, like, "Oh, I was in high school," and "Men at Work was out there or "I was you know dating my first girlfriend."  "Oh, I really loved that song when I got my first car when I was 16" and then you get to really know people and develop these friendships because ultimately that's what you would talk about in a bar.

Interviewer:  Yeah.

Rob McNealy:  That's what you would talk about if you are meeting someone at a cocktail party.  Twitter allows you to do that 24 hours seven days a week with people all over the world.

Interviewer:  Yeah, it really truly is amazing.  I mean the whole social media phenomenon is something even more powerful than like the Gutenberg Press.  I mean it really is.

Rob McNealy:  I don't know if it's that influential, but I definitely think that it's a paradigm shift in how people collectively communicate with each other without having to go through gatekeepers and I think that's fundamentally what the big difference in social media is, but right now at this moment in time, Twitter is the best tool that you have.

Interviewer:  So, you are an independent businessman, you run a flooring company, is that correct?

Rob McNealy:  I do.  I run a flooring company and a digital marketing agency called contrivedmedia.com.

Interviewer:  Well, let me ask you this other than music that you are listening to when you are bored on Friday night, what... what's the main emphasis?  What do you mostly tweet out to your followers?  What do they want from you?

Rob McNealy:  Well, one of the things I do a lot is I look and search for interesting information, not only just for my followers, but for me.  I am really very selfish.  I am looking for things that I find interesting and things that I find interesting, I make the assumption that people are following me also might find interesting and I send and post those links to that interesting content.  I think it's probably the number one thing that I do on Twitter and then you know, I am just trying to make friends with people.  I am trying to connect with people.  People buy and work with and joint venture with and partner with people they know, like, and trust and it takes time to develop that trust and that friendship and so the more, you know, mundane details people know about you and your life and your passions and the dreams and things you have done, the better you can build that relationship.

Interviewer:  Yeah.  Well, actually great information today Rob.  We really appreciate you giving us the interview.

Rob McNealy:  Thank you so much for having me out.

Interviewer:  We will be in touch.

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BrokerIPTV:  Hey, this is Mark Eibner at RE BarCamp Denver and I am with Kristal Kraft today and Kristal Kraft was the evil mastermind behind RE BarCamp.  Tell us how are things going so far Kristal?

Kristal Kraft:  Oh, it's great.  I am absolutely delighted.  We have had a great turnout.  The speakers were fantastic and it seems like everyone is having a good time. 

Interviewer:  Yeah, I had heard you had up to 500 registrants at one time.

Kristal Kraft:  You know, it got really close to that, but we didn't get that many come yet.  We have got people coming in and out, so, you know, it's... it will probably be around 300, maybe a little over 300.

Interviewer:  Yeah, so 300 is our body count.  They still... it looks like they have still got shirts left, so some of those people didn't show up, the first 180?

Kristal Kraft:  Well, you know, the people who are here are just drooling over those shirts.  They are hoping those people don't show up, so... and oddly enough those were the people who signed up first.  So....

Interviewer:  Yeah, I have actually had people [Voice Cross Over] asking about this shirt.  Is this like a collector's pirate shirt[Phonetic]?  So, this was the pirate[Phonetic] shirt.

Kristal Kraft:  Well, you could sell them.  You will probably get, you know, a casino[Phonetic] for that at least.

Interviewer:  Well, there is only four in Denver.  Here is two and there is two more in someone's back seat.

Kristal Kraft:  [laughs]

Interviewer:  So, anybody you are looking forward yourself to listening to this afternoon?

Kristal Kraft:  Yeah.  Actually, I was hoping nobody would show up for Dave Smith's[Phonetic] class on HDR photography because I wanted him all to myself.

Interviewer:  Oh.

Kristal Kraft:  But I don't think that's going to happen.  [laughs]

Interviewer:  Yeah, you are lucky to have him out here.  He is quite the catch to get out here.

Kristal Kraft:  Yeah, he is... he writes the realestatebloglab and he is out of Tucson and anybody who is blogging or is on WordPress, they really need to subscribe to his blog.  It's very, very good and he is also an amazing photographer.

Interviewer:  What was the name of his blog again?

Kristal Kraft:  It's called the realestatebloglab.com.

Interviewer:  Well, we appreciate all you have done here, putting this together Kristal and we will look forward to seeing the rest today.  Thank you.

Kristal Kraft:  Thank you.

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LIVE COVERAGE AND INFORMATIVE INTERVIEWS FROM BROKERIPTV.COM

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BrokerIPTV and Ricardo Bueno are working on being the sponsored IPTV Media Coverage for REBarCamp/LosAngeles

Real Estate Barcamp Los Angeles

* Strategies of Blogging for Business in Real Estate

* Preferred Blogging Platforms

* Online Tools to Boost Your Blog (and ultimately your biz)

* Twitter Strategies

* Marketing on Facebook

* LinkedIn Networking Tips

* Vlogging Tips

* Leveraging Social Networks like Active Rain

* Driving Traffic to Your Site

* Lead Generation Strategies

* Search Engine Optimizations Tips

Location: Pasadena Hilton

168 South Los Robles Avenue

Pasadena, CA 91101

Date and Time:  Thursday, April 02, 2009 at  9:00am to 5:00pm

Cost:   FREE!  But you have to RSVP here

Follow us on Twitter: @REBarcampLA

Interviewer:  And welcome Broker IPTV.  Today's show is brought to you by Meridian Title and Escrow, Colorado's largest mortgage and real estate broker owned title insurance company.  Today's guest is Ricardo Bueno, and Ricardo is coming to us from Los Angeles, California and Ricardo, welcome to the show.

Ricardo Bueno:  Hey, thanks for having me.  How is it going?

Interviewer:  It's going well.  I understand you are a freelance social media consultant or strategist and you work and build custom websites for brokers, is that right?

Ricardo Bueno:  That's right.  I am a social media consultant with the Real Estate Tomato and we design custom blogs [Inaudible] for agents and we train through them the adoption process of social media for their business.

Interviewer:  Excellent.  So you are probably the right person to be in charge of REBarCamp, right?

Ricardo Bueno:  [laughs]  Well, I hate to toot my own horn, but I would hope so.

Interviewer:  So, tell me about REBarCamp, what is REBarCamp?

Ricardo Bueno:  Well, REBarCamp is... it stands for Real Estate Bar Camp and it's essentially a one day free social media conference for the real estate space.  It's being held bar camp style[Phonetic], so it should work out to be a pretty good event.

Interviewer:  Great and you got roped into this event by how?

Ricardo Bueno:  [laughs]  We attended Real Estate Blog World last year.  I forget the date when that was, but I was sitting at a dinner with Rich Jacobson - the community builder for Active Rain Corporation, Irina Netchaev, and Jeff Dowler, real estate agents, we are just talking about different conferences that are going on and what a lot of real estate folks are doing as far as adopting social media into their marketing and you know one thing led to another and the conversation ended up turning, "You know Ricardo, why don't you try hosting a real estate bar camp?" [Voice Cross Over]

Interviewer:  There you go, Real Estate Bar Camp, Los Angeles.

Ricardo Bueno:  My hometown, so I thought why not, let's give this a shot.

Interviewer:  What's the date on that?  Now, you are having it this year?

Ricardo Bueno:  The date is set for Thursday, April 2nd.  We got a space over at the Pasadena Hilton.  So, we would probably be doing a couple of things before, but we will have more details on that coming up on the website, but we are set to go live Thursday April 2nd from 9 to 5 and probably have a after party to kick things up[Phonetic].  [Voice Cross Over]

Interviewer:  So, April 1st, you will be having a pre-event that evening?

Ricardo Bueno:  That's correct.  We have the Active Rain guys and several other folks coming in from out of town.  So, we thought it would be a good time to get together with them and you know do something the night before.  Stacey Harmon is going to help in organizing... is helping organize something, set something up so we should be good.

Interviewer:  So, for agents that are wondering out there, what... #1, what REBarCamp is, it's social media, this would probably be the prime eight or nine hours to spend and see if social media is right for you, right?

Ricardo Bueno:  Oh yeah.  I mean the cool thing about the bar camp model, in this REBarCamp is that it's not a vendor fair.  So, it's going to do a couple of things; it's going to... first of all pull people's guard down, so you know because it's not a vendor driven event, people aren't going to be hesitant to show up you know and fear being sold something.

Interviewer:  Right.

Ricardo Bueno:  And it's going to ensure that we have really individuals who are passionate about this stuff.  So, I think there will be a lot more collaboration and energy going on throughout the room; it's really learn all of this stuff.

Interviewer:  Okay.  Well, tell me about your sponsors; it looks like Diverse Solutions, Zillow?

Ricardo Bueno:  Yeah.  We got a lot of great sponsors, both national and local.  We got Diverse Solutions, Zillow, Retrove:  The Real Estate Search Engine.  We got Altos Research, Cyber Homes, The Real Estate Tomato, and Active Rain.

Interviewer:  Excellent.

Ricardo Bueno:  And in terms of the local folks, it's really exciting to see a lot of local folks are showing interest.  We got CV Escrow, SoCal CRS, Up-2-Date Real Estate, and a few other brokerages really showing some interest.

Interviewer:  Why don't you give me some names real quick as far as some of your speakers you already have planned to speak at the event?  Jeff Turner?

Ricardo Bueno:  Well, yeah, we got Jeff Turner, you know Real Estate Shows, Dustin Luther with 4realz Consulting, we got Jim Marks, we got Jeff [Inaudible] over in Active Rain and few of the other Active Rain folks.  Ginger Wilcox is coming into town.  Reggie Nicolay [Phonetic] should be coming in and so it's turning out to be a pretty good line up.

Interviewer:  Actually, well, those are some big powerful names as far as social media in real estate.  So, it should be a good show; so, if they need information, they go to rebarcamp.com/losangeles, is that what your domain is?

Ricardo Bueno:  Yeah, that's correct, it's rebarcamp.com/losangeles, everything there from our about to the RSVP is on the site and any more information, they could always get in touch with me.

Interviewer:  Great.  Well, lots of good information Ricardo.  We appreciate you coming on for this interview today and we will be talking to you soon.

Ricardo Bueno:  I think [Inaudible].

Interviewer:  You bet.

Announcer:  Once again the dates out there for REBarCamp Los Angeles is Thursday, April 2nd and they are planning some pre-event festivities on April 1st, April Fool's day.  So, that should probably be a great one to attend especially with some of the members that I know are being there on April Fool's day.  The slide here shows you it's the Pasadena Hilton, 168 South Los Robles Avenue in Pasadena, California.  We have got the sponsors up here, Diverse Solutions, Zillow, Retrove, Altos Research, Cyber Homes, The Real Estate Tomato, and Active Rain; also, some local sponsors CV Escrow, Southern Cal CRS, and Up-2-Date Real Estate.  Once again, that domain name was rebarcamp.com/losangeles.  Lots of great speakers there, Jeff Turner, Dustin Luther, Jim Marks, Ginger Wilcox, and of course Ricardo will be speaking with Chris Hotz from the Real Estate Tomato.  Hope to see you all there.  Broker IPTV is working on having coverage of the event.  Have a great day.

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BrokerIPTV:  Today we are talking with Vali Wimberly from The Berkshire Group.  Welcome to the show.  Glad to have you.

Vali Wimberly:  Thanks, it's good to be here.

BrokerIPTV:  Well, we are talking about RE BarCamp, Denver.  What is RE BarCamp, Denver?

Vali Wimberly:  That's a good question.  I get that question a lot actually.  BarCamp is going to be a one day convention and it's anybody in the real estate industry, not necessarily realtors, but anybody who wants to know a little bit more about being a little bit more tech smart[Phonetic].

BrokerIPTV:  Yeah.  Now, I understand your group is part of the group that has helped organize the event.  Is that true and how did you get involved?

Vali Wimberly:  Yeah.  Absolutely.  I actually... I got recruited by Todd Carpenter and Krystal Kraft.  They wanted somebody else to help them out with the entire function and I said yes.

BrokerIPTV:  Now, what is the guts[Phonetic] of this?  People get together and they kind of share ideas, is that a little bit of how it goes?

Vali Wimberly:  Yes.  It is... I think the best way to describe it is with the word unconference[Phonetic].  It's a day of really good information, but in the beginning of the day we don't have a schedule.  We essentially make the schedule based on what people submit at our website of what they would like to hear and they would like to learn more about and also the day of the conference in the morning, we kind of survey who is there and see what they want to know.

BrokerIPTV:  And are you just like picking a speaker out of the group that happens to be there or are these people booked in advanced type of thing?

Vali Wimberly:  That's a good question.  We have a lot of the people, the who's who of the different social medias and blogging that are already there.  So, we are picking people that are very knowledgeable about it and they are coming to it.

BrokerIPTV:  All right.  Now, this is the first of its kind in Denver, is that correct?

Vali Wimberly:  It is and we are really excited about it because there has been a few across the nation and they have generated a lot of just good information and a lot of excitement.  So, we are really happy to have one in Denver here finally.

BrokerIPTV:  What other cities have kind of undertaken this little adventure?

Vali Wimberly:  Well, the first one was in San Francisco and Seattle just had one recently.  They had over 400 people sign up.

BrokerIPTV:  Wow.

Vali Wimberly:  And pretty much a couple of hundred people came to that one.  So, there was really, really good information at the same time lots of attendees.

BrokerIPTV:  Give me some examples of the topics you are going to cover.

Vali Wimberly:  Well, again, it is going to be a lot of tech stuff, but a lot of blogging for business, click to closing, things like social media sites and how to really use them to your advantage, Facebook and Twitter.  I mean how does that help you in business, a lot of people don't really make that connection and we will definitely be talking about that at a basic level and at a very advanced level as well.

BrokerIPTV:  Who can attend?

Vali Wimberly:  Anybody, anybody who wants to know more about this.  So, it can be somebody who knows a lot will have advanced sessions.  For people that want to know more about maximizing SEO and stuff about like basic beginning blogging, it just really depends on what the people want to hear that are there.

BrokerIPTV:  Yeah.  Cost?

Vali Wimberly:  It's absolutely free.  That's one of the best things.

BrokerIPTV:  Oh, that's great.

Vali Wimberly:  Yeah.

BrokerIPTV:  That's the best cost you can get.

Vali Wimberly:  Yeah.

BrokerIPTV:  All right.  How about where is the event being held and when?

Vali Wimberly:  Well, it's going to be... it's at 7100 East Belleview, which is at the Armbrust Real Estate College and MetroList.  It's in the building and we are going to... they have been very generous, they have donated their facilities and so that's where we are going to have lots of space to have all the different sessions.

BrokerIPTV:  And how does somebody sign up?

Vali Wimberly:  They sign up online on our site.  It's rebarcamp.com/denver.

BrokerIPTV:  Vali, thanks, appreciate you being here.

Vali Wimberly:  My pleasure.

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