Thank You From the “Staff”

This wouldn’t have been a successful event without attendees, facilitators, and sponsors. We thank you for the kind things you have said on the tweets and Facebook comments and on this blog, but we’d like to turn it back toward you now. Y’all were great to hang with for the day.

We had about 200 pop in throughout the day, which is not too shabby given it’s our first RE BarCamp in the Twin Cities.

This also makes the owner of the rented space happy. He was worried about the fact that 400 registered (actually it was more like 430, but sshhh) for a floor that is really meant for 200. We did our research, and it seems that free events tend to have a 50% turnout.

I’m not sure what that says about our noncommital society, but whatever the case, it worked in the favor of RE BarCamp – Minneapolis-Saint Paul. We were thrilled with the turnout, and we anticipate that we’ll need a bigger boat for the next one.

Try not to forget about us over the next month. We’ll be posting material from presenters here. We have already posted several photos over on our Facebook Fan Page.

Cheggitout: http://www.facebook.com/#!/REBCMN

PreBarCamp Tweetup at Maxwell’s

There will be a pre-event gathering the night before at Maxwell’s, located at 1201 Washington Ave S, just down the street from Spill the Wine. Typically, this event is called “Beer with Bloggers,” but you don’t have to blog or even microblog (i.e., tweet) to hang out. Just be nice.

We’ll call this event a PreBarCamp Tweetup. Spread the word.

Location: Maxwell’s
Address: 1201 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Monday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Until: We’re tired and nervous about waking up early for RE BarCamp the next day!

What to Bring to BarCamp

Real Estate BarCamp – Minneapolis-St. Paul is almost here, and many of you still don’t quite understand what you’ve signed up for.

Where’s the itinerary? Who are the speakers? Do I have to stay the whole day? Is this just for bloggers who tweet about their bookfaces?

There will definitely be elements of social media and technology in the day’s proceedings. Technology tools that empower individuals inexpensively are interesting to talk about in an industry driven by individuals who rely on technology to do their work.

And among real estate professionals, things like RPR, VOWs, mobile real estate, market data, photography, branding, and more have proven to be popular topics at BarCamps and more traditional conferences across the country.

Your BarCamp volunteers have been paying attention to what people are talking about, both away and at home, and we are prepared to set the table of conversation topics. But we hope you’ll do it for us when you arrive on Tuesday.

You will be encouraged to both submit topics AND facilitate sessions. The desire is to have six concurrent sessions going in six different time slots throughout the day. But we didn’t establish 36 topics ahead of time, so we’re expecting you to make your mark.

Bring fresh ideas, bring an open mind, bring a laptop (or netbook), bring a fully charged mobile device, bring a digital camera, or, heck, show off your new iPad if you got one.

Whoever comes and whatever we decide to talk about and whatever it is we bring will contribute to exactly what the day was meant to provide.

Sounds a little goofy, doesn’t it? But it’s working. From Orange County to Atlantic City, it’s working. And we’re excited to be adding to the conversation on Tuesday.