Schedule of Events

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TUESDAY, JULY 22
Time Session Title
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Bloggers Connect Welcome Reception
  "Beer with Bloggers"
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23
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9:00 am – 12:00 pm INTERNET MARKETING WORKSHOP
9:00 am – 9:45 am Case Study: How a High End Broker is Using Social Networking
9:45 am – 10:30 am Case Study: How One Broker is Making Group BloggingWork
10:30 am – 11:15 am Case Study: Intero Gets Aggressive with Web Platform
11:15 am – 12:00 pm Case Study: How a New Brokerage is Doing it Differently
   
9:00 am – 2:45 pm BLOGGERS CONNECT
9:00 am – 9:45 pm Creating Content that Hooks Readers
9:45 am – 10:30 am Case Study: How Four Bloggers Are Closing Sales
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break
10:45 am – 11:30 pm Leaving a Digital Footprint
11:30 am – 12:15 pm Blogging Pitfalls: How NOT to Get Sued
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch (Not Provided)
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Growing Pains: Take Your Blog to the Next Level
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Q&A with all Speakers and Networking
   
9:00 am – 12:00 pm FORECLOSURES WORKSHOP
9:00 am – 9:45 am Foreclosure 2.0: Using Technology to Gain Business
9:45 am – 10:30 am Helping Homeowners While Closing Business
10:30 am – 11:15 am No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Where's the Risk?
11:15 am – 12:00 pm Foreclosure Landscape: A Look at Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed
   
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open
   
12:30 pm – 2:45 pm Sponsor Intensives
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm How to Build a Multimedia Brokerage Company
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Virtual Earth and the Re-engineered User Experience
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Bring a buyer’s hidden motivations to life with your online marketing and website strategy
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm How Agents Can Leverage Web Video to Sell Homes
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Bring Properties to Life with Microsoft Virtual Earth
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Nike, Apple, Consumers and You
   
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
MAIN CONFERENCE
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Welcome Address
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm One-on-One: The Election, Customer Service and the State of the Media
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm 50 Technologies To Help You Survive the Downturn
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm The Housing Debate: Bull vs. Bear
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Cocktails@Connect Reception
THURSDAY, JULY 24
Time Session Title
   
8:30 am – 12:00 pm MAIN CONFERENCE
8:30 am – 9:00 am 6 New Ideas That Will Change Real Estate
9:00 am – 9:15 am Starting From Scratch: Building a New Franchise from a Clean Slate
9:15 am – 10:00 am Super Size Search
10:00 am – 10:45 am Keynote Address – Inbox Zero
10:45 am – 11:00 am Radical Marketing for Real Estate
11:00am – 11:45 pm The MLS Mess
11:45 am – 12:00 pm How the Next Generation is Consuming Media
   
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open
   
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Sponsor Intensive
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm You’re Not Just a Head Shot
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Innovate & Integrate – Next Generation Solutions with Virtual Earth
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Become an expert in the homeownership lifecycle and win customers for life
   
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Meet the Leaders
   
2:00 pm – 4:45 pm Innovation Tracks
   
  Savvy Agent Technology
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Using Video the Right Way
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm The Hottest Productivity Tools
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Analytics and ROI: It’s About Tracking
   
  New Business Opportunities
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Tapping the Global Real Estate Market
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Prospects in Rentals: Grow Your Rental Business Online
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Working the Foreclosure Market
   
  Future of MLS
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Public-Facing Web Sites: Good or Bad?
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Changing Roles: Brokers & MLS vs. Listings Aggregators
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Change or Die: Does the MLS Risk Becoming Irrelevant?
   
  Broker Breakout Session: Real Estate Brokerage of the Future
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Building a Killer Brokerage Web Site
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm Building a Brokerage Brand in a Web 2.0 World
2:30 pm – 3:15 pm Niche Marketing: How to Get Yours
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Eat the Paper: Virtual Office Pros and Cons
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Round Table Breakout
FRIDAY, JULY 25
Time Session Title
   
8:30 am – 12:00 am MAIN CONFERENCE
8:30 am – 9:15 am Finding Buyers Outside the U.S.
9:15 am – 10:00 am Get Social or Die
10:00 am – 10:45 am Evolution of the Real Estate Portal
10:45 am – 11:00 am Innovator Awards
11:00 am – 11:45 am When Will the Housing Market Turn?
11:45 am – 12:00 pm What Did We Learn?
12:00 pm Program Ends