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Real Estate Connect at San Francisco's ornate Palace Hotel in late July brought together real estate executives, brokers, agents, analysts, lenders, investors, bloggers, authors and others to hear and see the latest trends and predictions, as well as to network up a storm and commiserate about when home sales will emerge from their doldrums.
All the hip Internet buzzwords - user-generated content, social media marketing, virtual communities, portals, video-enabled, digital innovation, transparency, mobility, blogging (of course), wireless, nomadic - were trotted out, along with demos galore of how to apply them to the buying and selling of homes. Click Here for the rest of the story.