On Twitter there is often a push on Fridays for people to recommend who they feel others should be following. This week I’ve decided to highlight some people I’ve met through Real Estate Webmasters.
I owe so much of what I know about online real estate to the information I’ve learned and friends I’ve made over at the Real Estate Webmasters forums . Going to the SEO summit last year changed my perspective on how I am running my business. Follow these people on twitter – well worth your time.
Eric Blackwell @ericblackwell was one of my first friends on the REW forums, letting me know on my first introduction post that he had gone to school in Davis and helped me feel welcome to the community.
Lou Lynch @mortgagesdotcom is probably the main person responsible for me actually “getting” twitter. He was one of the first REW members that started intereacting on twitter and got others interested in really trying it.
Rob Masse @rmasse10 is the other responsible party for me being on twitter. I can talk to Rob at length about most any subject. Another reason I like Rob, he has more computers at his house than I do.
Derrick Monroe @RealtorDMG lives outside of Minneapolis and besides owning his own brokerage has a variety of side businesses including a car wash, pet wash and during the winter time does a lot of snowplowing in his town. I was Derrick’s first friend on twitter and I think his first friend on facebook as well. I do my best to keep Derrick out of trouble.
Ryland @REW_ryland is a sales rep for Real Estate Webmasters and also is a funny guy. Check out his blog sometime.
Big talk on the REW forum for the past week is a new referral contest where the winner will get a limited edition custom website. If you are already a REW community memeber pop over and check it out – if not sign up, write a post introducing yourself and do a favor, mention my name (Carolyn Gjerde-Tu). I’ll be posting more details here soon, including how you can also be eligible to win an awsome website.
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Having some common ground with you on this one, this was a brilliant one, Carolyn. The ability to paint such a vivid picture of all the brilliant ones above with just a couple sentences, is an art…well done.
Question(s) back to you (or anyone) —
If you could only choose ONE social networking platform, which one would it be? I think I know your answer, Carolyn – but just interested. Let’s leave forums out – but let’s include all social bookmarking sites too. So From Twitter, to Facebook, to Stumble, to Facebook, to Digg, to Mixx, to Puurple…which one? And why (grin)? Did that make sense?
Hey Kevin, great question, because it isn’t an automatic answer for me but it comes down to only two choices, Facebook and Twitter. There are things I really like about Facebook and it’s a different sort of community, but I think personally I get more out of twitter. It’s the interaction between people as well as sharing sometimes really great information. It’s like picking up snippets of conversations that if I’m not careful can lead me into many different directions.
Oh, and I could probably write about my friends all day long – that really isn’t hard – just not sure how engaging the blog would be after a while.
Ah, the crew from REW. That actually rhymed. Great bunch of folks and a great online community. I’ve learned a lot on the forum as well.
Hey Carolyn, since you brought this up, I just wanted to say I truly enjoyed meeting you and hanging out a little at the REW Summit 08. That was a great time to meet so many people in person, many I have known for years online.
I don’t participate on Twitter as much as I’d like to, but I do like it especially that its real time. Of course, I like REW alot too and most of my friends on Twitter are from REW and have taught me so much.
Carolyn,
Even though I do not personally know most of my Twitter / REW friends I can say one thing – I have learned a ton from them anyway. It seemed odd to me at first to be social with so many you don’t know but in many ways you come to know them over time and posts which is pretty cool! You’re right, I think you were my first friend on Twitter as well as Facebook; pretty sure you’re who lead me to both – thanks and thanks for all your advice over the past several months and the rest of my social buddies & the gang at REW.
I just noticed this post, “where have I been”
Derrick – where have you been?? j/k
Dennis – it was nice meeting you as well – hopefully we’ll get to hang out again this summer.
Sue – you participate plenty on twitter. The cool thing about twitter, facebook, etc. is that YOU choose how you are going to use it. They still work if you only use once a week or even once a month.