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.