This nugget from Pat Kitano of Transparent Real Estate:
“Facebook is the white pages,
Your blog is the yellow pages.”
There were more thoughts on why it’s important to be a part of the online conversation. With those of us who blog, that tends to be the central node of our informal social network. We do still tend to take part in the “real” social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Active Rain though.
Dustin Luther, of Move.com, brought up the point that anytime you link to someone, you “vote” for them. This is the foundation of the informal network.
Anil Dash spoke about the reality that human behavior hasn’t changed – we’re still the same. Social networking is what humans are born to do. The sites are just revealing the types of things that we do anyway. These same behaviors are just manifesting in a new medium.
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It really has been a blast meeting up with everyone at this event and I’m glad to see there was a nugget of information you found valuable on our panel!
I know I’m biased, but I have seen many examples of the benefits of connecting in an online community.
I think issues will arise going forward where relevance plays a greater factor in these communities. More and more people will belong to say 3 or 4, that they check on daily or weekly for business and personal reasons, and others that they’ll participate in monthly.
I agree with Caleb in some regard. I don’t think that professionals will be members of 3 or 4 communities, I think it will be 2, maybe a max of 3. Real Estate Professionals just don’t have the time to interact with that many communities. I think they will find the top 2 sites they like and will spend maybe a few minutes each day or a few times a week.