As a creator of the Search Marketing Salon (along with Lorna Li), I am very excited to announce that we have partnered with SEMPO to host an event on August 13^th at Medjool in San Francisco (from 6-8). For those of you not familiar with SEMPO, it is a group for search engine marketing professionals in San Francisco, we get together and discuss online marketing strategies, industry trends, and we just have a good ‘ol time. For those of you not familiar with Search Marketing Salon (you better be!) we host events in San Francisco as well and we open up our doors to online marketers, entrepreneurs, social media experts, etc. We love meeting clever and creative people from all around the world. If you are not a member yet, then feel free to join our group. We are going to building out our site in the near future and will have some very exciting things going on so stay tuned!

The event is going to be sponsored by Marin Software and there are a lot of great folks attending to it should be a good time, we currently have 103 rsvp’d guests so if you would like to attend (and I hope you do!) please visit our meetup page.

I hope to see all of you there!

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Yesterday was the Real Estate Bar Camp in San Francisco at the Swedish American Hall.  This was my first bar camp of any kind and I must say it was great.  For those of you not familiar with a bar camp think of an ad hoc conference.  People know to show up but the sessions and topics are picked right on the spot and whoever wants to lead a session may do so, anyone can be a speaker.  Once the speakers are chose and the times are set up, the fun begings.  Multiple sessions go on at the same time so you just pick what sessions you want to attend and then go.  Here are the pics from the event:

“Why So Serious?” Mr. Chris Peri taking care of business

“5 Must have social networking tools for realtors”

This is what the schedule looked like, Andy Kafuman did an awesome job coordinating

Another shot of the schedule with a random finger and Andy Kaufman’s hand

“Stairway to heaven”

Random shot of folks talking

How can realtors use web 2.0 tools for training?

Panel discussion on guerilla markering tactics

Random discussions happening all over the place

Getting ready for another session

The aftermath

Overall the event was a great success.  I found it very interesting to hear how folks in the real estate industry are using social media tools foster and build relationships.  There were many interesting sessions and many interesting people.  Thanks again for everyone who helped put Real Estate Bar Camp together.  I’m definitely looking forward to my next bar camp, I actually like the crazy environment and ad hoc discussions, it feels more personal and it’s easier to connect with other people

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For those of you that were around, it was great seeing all of you and meeting many of you.  For those of you that weren’t able to make the event..WTF?!  (kidding, kidding).  There were around 25 of us gathered on the rooftop of Medjools in San Francisco.  Here are the pics

The Flip it Girl crew, Kary Rivera and husband (forgot his name!)

Tyler Willis from Inolver with Andrew Hyde in the background

A Mr. Andrew Hyde

Laura Fitton aka “Pistachio”

Photrade CEO Andrew Paradies and Vp of Marketing Krista Neher

Libby Heeb from Symyx, Noah from Involver and Nikki from Involver

You See Me?  Flip it Girl!

Crowd Shot at Startup Drinks

Searchme engineer Jeff Emrich

Random shot, Eh, I’m no Brian Solis

UPDATED:  In all fairness I did not take this last pick, in fact “Tyler Willis stole my camera and created an artistic masterpiece with his unbelievable eye and awesome talent.”  A little bird told me to add that in, the little bird shall rename anonymous…sort of.

Overall a great event with lot’s of great people.  Tyler from Involver wanted to seat me at a different table because I’m still a P.C. user, who knows maybe I’ll convert one day

Hope to see you at the next tech event!

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