Inman Connect Recap

Last week, a few of us attended the Inman Connect Conference in San Francisco. It was a fantastic conference with great networking opportunities. RE Bar Camp helped set the stage for a great week — a group of about 100 or 150 bloggers and techies gathered to chat about the latest and greatest products and ideas relating to real estate technology. It was great to meet some of those who I chat with regularly, but have never met in person. It’s no secret I’ve been a fan of MyBlogLog for a long time, so it was great to meet their Product Manager, Ian Kennedy, and Community Manager, Tilly McLain. They even added a feature to MBL just in time for the conference that pulls in any new listings you add on Zillow into your New with Me feed, which can then be seen by all your friends on MyBlogLog.

As I already mentioned here on Zillow Blog, Beer with Bloggers was a blast.

I was in and out of meetings for much of the conference, but the sessions I attended did not disappoint. I won’t go into too much detail, but one major theme to the conference that we noted was the notion of a “nomad lifestyle” — your phone is now your email, your laptop, your stereo, your camera, your camcorder, etc. It’s imperative for real estate agents to be reachable and have all their information with them at all times. The new “office cube” is anywhere, and the notion of a virtual workplace is becoming more and more mainstream as people live increasingly mobile lives. For those that want to read more insights from the conference, head over to the Connect SF 2008 group on Inman.

I almost left San Francisco without getting on video to embarrass myself, but no such luck — Christian Schweiger and Jay Thompson nabbed me just before I headed to the airport for a short re-cap.

All in all, I and the rest of the Zillow team had a blast and we’re looking forward to connecting again with everyone in New York next January!