Self-promotion is one of the more difficult parts of this job for me. That said, I would be negligent to my business if I didn’t at least try to take advantage of this upcoming opportunity.

With a little help from a friend and some tweaking to the boilerplate release from Inman, I released this last week –

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Jim Duncan to Speak at Inman News
Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007

Charlottesville, VA – July 6, 2007 – Jim Duncan, REALTOR® & blogger of Century 21 Manley Associates, will be a featured panelist at Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007 this August 2nd, at 2 pm. He will speak on new media and real estate blogging. The complete speaker lineup and program details are available at http://www.realestateconnect.com/sf07.
Hosted by Inman News, Real Estate Connect is the premier executive gathering for everything related to real estate, technology and digital media. This year’s event will draw upwards of 1500 mega-agents, top brokers, technologists, opinion leaders, entrepreneurs, decision makers, press, analysts and investors from across the country. RE Connect SF ‘07 takes place August 1 – 3 at The Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco.

“We pride ourselves on attracting the most dynamic and captivating speakers in the industry, Jim certainly fits that description,” said Bradley Inman, Founder and Publisher of Inman News. “Past speakers have included Seth Godin, Barry Diller, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, Google co-founder Larry Page, and Priceline.com chairman Rick Braddock.”

Real Estate Connect SF ’07 also includes four pre-conferences: Internet Marketing Boot Camp, Connect TECH, Broker Internet Session and Bloggers’ Connect. Registration for the event runs until July 24th, 2007.

About Jim Duncan
Jim has lived in Charlottesville for nearly 20 years and is married to Charlottesville native Walker Duncan, with whom he has two children. A REALTOR® who has specialized in marketing, seller representation and buyer representation for the past six years, and has been a real estate blogger for the past two and a half, Jim has been regarded as a leader locally and statewide on real estate and technology issues.

Jim’s blog, RealCentralVA, is regarded as one of the best sources of unbiased and accurate information and analysis in the Charlottesville region.

About Real Estate Connect
Real Estate Connect is the premier real estate, mortgage and technology conference, drawing the industry’s most influential decision makers, opinion leaders and technology experts into an active forum for discussion and debate.

The event is organized and produced by Inman News (www.inman.com), the nation’s leading independent media news service and licensed content provider for the real estate, mortgage and real estate technology sectors. Inman’s clients and partners include 50,000+ Web sites and 250+ U.S. newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, Comcast Spotlight, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS MarketWatch, and many more.

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Media Contacts:

Century 21 Manley
Jim Duncan
434-242-7140
866-820-4039
Jim@RealCentralVA.com

Inman News
Matt McAllister
Marketing Director
Tel (510) 658-9252 x142
Fax (510) 658-9317
mattm@inman.com