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)
Posts tagged MLS
Does the Baby Convey?
Seen in an MLS listing in Charlottesville this evening. 
Not to take away from Athol , but this one’s pretty good. (note: the house is actually listed as vacant, so it’s probably a safe assumption that neither the baby nor the pacifier conveys)
Charlottesville has its own Bubble Blog!
I don’t know how I missed Real C’Ville for so long (they’ve been up since May 2008), but here they are – offering candid commentary on the market and most interestingly, different houses on the market : This house is on pretty Oxford Place, the one-way horseshoe street that jogs off and back to lovely Oxford Road, in the Rugby area. … As you drive down Oxford Place, almost immediately to your left it’s like you’re in Belmont or Woolen Mills, back in the day: there’s overgrown foliage obscuring an abandoned house and dead cars w/tags expired in 2003.
What’s outside the window?
I’ll be adding these photos to my listings soon – what’s outside the window of the house, what the street looks like, what’s to the left and right … not just because a client mentioned it to me the other day, but also because Google just released Panoramio : Have you ever looked at a photo and wondered what was beyond its edges – just what was left of that castle or what the facade of Notre Dame looks like from close up? … I only wish we could integrate this into the MLS … but we’re relatively limited in the photos we can upload and then we’d likely run into the “you can’t have your own branding!”
What will MLS data standards do for the consumers?
With the recent talk of how forthcoming data standards are going to make property data sharing more efficient and thus better for consumers and Realtors, here is one of my requests – I’d love to see a (Google) Mashup (or the MLS would be even better, and I think a no-brainer) providing an overlay of school districts. … Even better, make it so that registered users could make their own pages with all their important locations to help them organize their thoughts and help their Realtor representatives better understand their thoughts and thought processes.