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Going to San Francisco Next Week

Jim Duncan Speaking in San Francisco Thursday, July 24, 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Changing Roles: Brokers & the MLS vs. the Listing Aggregators Panelists: Ben Phillips , Vice President & New Product Development, Managing Director, Realogy Franchise Group Beverly Faull , GM & SVP, Fidelity National Information Services Celeste Starchild , Vice President Broker Sales, ListHub: Broker Division of Threewide’s Broker Division Jim Duncan , Realtor/Blogger, RealCentralVa.com Sean Black , VP of Sales, Trulia This is the third time I have been invited to speak at Inman Connect, and every time I learn something new. – In San Francisco 2007 I spoke about the benefits of local blogging – Earlier this year in New York City I was on a panel titled, ” Blogging, a Fresh Take on Client Prospecting ” * I despise writing stories with “I” as one of the core elements, but writing this post in the third person would have been a bit odd (and perhaps arrogant sounding)

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Recapping yesterday’s radio appearance discussing the Charlottesville Real Estate Market

In short we spent about forty five minutes rambling about the state of the Charlottesville area real estate market and touched on the following topics (from memory) – – Have green homes reached a tipping point? … At least one story idea came of the show, and I might try to write a story about it in the next couple of weeks – what percentage of properties are on the market in the respective localities in the Central Virginia region?

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Duplicate content in the RE.NET

One of the key concepts of the real estate blogging space has been the original content and unique voices found at each different site; this originality seems to be waning a bit this year as the medium grows and the same content is published at different sites. … For example, and I’m not alone in my writing responsibilities, I write at a couple of places – – RealCentralVA – a blog focused on the Charlottesville/Central Virginia real estate market and trends affecting same.

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Social Media Explained and Expanded

| View | Upload your own For example – I can be contacted here in a variety of ways; below are a couple of the many. (the closest thing to a resume I have to offer) Jim Duncan's friendfeed

…A few of the topics we plan to discuss are – -owners being upside-down when trying sell their house -being uncomfortable buying in these times, even though it may be the best time around -how much should a seller lower the sales price?

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