It’s Official: The Newbie Sessions

We had a very energizing planning session yesterday and one of the decisions that we agreed on was to have an a official track dedicated to the pariticipants who are newer to social media.   Now before some of you ol’ salty seasonsed savvy social media guru’s start to roll your eyes at the thought of a track being dedicated to those who are a greener, anyone who has attended an reBarCamp knows full well that a good amount of the participants are “newbies”.   When I attended my the very first reBarCamp in San Francisco a couple years ago, even though my blog was up and running, I really wasn’t functional with Twitter or Facebook.  In fact, I learned about Flickr and all it’s possibilities by sitting in a session that Teresa Boardman was in…but I digress.   We were all reBarCamp and/or social media newbies at one point in time. 

Our plan is to have one of the rooms at our venue, the Seattle Center NW Rooms, dedicated to this track.   If someone who is new wants to make themselves comfortable all day, they can.  If some of the sessions offered in that room/track do not appeal to them or there is another session they want to see in another room, they are of course, free to do so.

Last year, we had a “newbie” track where many of the sessions were referred to as “101″.  2011 is going to be a little different as we are planning on having a majority of the sessions for newbies set with moderators and folks who are experienced with the topic of that session.  We’re hoping to pull from some of the great talent we have coming to participate from across the nation and local real estate professionals who have found success on that specific topic.   The goal is not to have lectures or pre-planned presentations – we are staying true to the reBarCamp experience as far as that’s concerned.  It will probably be more like a causal panel with plenty of Q&A opportunities.

A majority of Seattle reBarCamp’s agenda will still be determined by the participants the morning of the event as always.   So do bring  your ideas and I’m really hoping the “Guru’s” will really ”bring it” so we can have advanced sessions and everything in between.

Update February 22, 11:  we’ve just added a rough draft of the agenda for this track…and it looks like we’re renaming this “the Rookie Sessions” in the spirit of spring training!