In case you missed it - this week on InmanTV:

Landing good leads - today and tomorrow

Lead generation on the Internet is a hot topic these days as more Realtors look to the Web for new clients. Dave Wengel of TargusInfo discusses some of the ways agents can get leads, what good leads look like and where lead generation is heading in the future.

Konstantin Guericke was the co-founder of the popular social network LinkedIn and he joins InmanTV to talk about his latest project, Jaxtr.com - a web-based click to call widget you can embed on your web site or blog to connect your visitors directly to your telephone.

Teresa Boardman is a REALTOR® and licensed broker with Keller Williams Integrity Realty in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of The St. Paul Real Estate Blog a “hyper local” blog that focuses on St. Paul and on real estate with hundreds of articles and more than a 1000 photos.

In case you missed it - this week on InmanTV:

What’s Craig Up to These Days

Craig Newmark is a customer service rep and founder of craigslist. He started craigslist in 1995 and it quickly grew to become the most influential classifieds site on the Internet. Since then, he has maintained an obsessive commitment to customer service to the craigslist community. He sits down with InmanTV to share some of his new community efforts, particularly involving Mideast peace and new forms of media, involving “participatory journalism” and blogging.

Social Mapping with Platial.com

Platial.com lets you create your own maps for the web and layer in all kinds of information and create your own mashup. CEO Di-Ann Eisnor tells us more about the trends in social mapping and how it can be used in real estate.

Overcoming Blogging Fears with Anil Dash

Anil Dash is Chief Evangelist at Six Apart, Ltd, and is a recognized expert on blogs and web technology, having founded one of the earliest and most popular weblogs on the Internet. Anil joins us on Inman TV for a conversation on the history and some of the challenges in introducing blogging into your business.

It may be gauche to discuss my impressions of last week's Inman ConnectSF on the Inman blog, but here it is:

Web 2.0 hovered over the Palace Hotel starting with the unprecedented Blogger's Connect. This beta conference graduated immediately as a starter into Connect NYC in January. Why? It was the intimacy and good will of a congregation of incredible diversity - geographically, demographically, even a high school friend of John Harper's who has been befriending us bloggers on Facebook -  all devoted to a pursuit usually done alone on a keyboard, sometimes late at night. It was like a high school reunion... the fun kind.

Web 2.0 continued to be the thread that tied Connect conversations together - almost all participants acknowledge that a sea change is happening. It was about blogging, video or the Active Rain community redefining real estate marketing, about the new heavyweights Zillow and Trulia gaining momentum and percolating interest from the venture community, and about all those new user-generated content sites launching weekly.

Talking about Web 2.0 revealed the new sociologies evolving around real estate. Brad Inman noted an attitude change towards real estate that seems to coincide with the emergence of Web 2.0. He discusses how boomers purchased real estate in private, perhaps reflecting societal modesty around money we grew up with, while Generation 2.0 collaborates with their friends and family on the purchase... one can almost imagine the process documented on a Facebook group. Here's a more traditional exchange - Travis Wright kindly mentioned that he's noticed me at Inman lately, so I've become like family - it just reinforces the fact that the industry believes in face time, and conferences are the physical equivalents of Facebook.

The media was us. Inman TV broadcast everything (even in the hotel rooms), so much so they recruited my friend and colleague Kevin Boer as a temp interviewer. No camera phone was left unclicked, and there were more pictures of a famous RV that (with all due respect ) I could imagine. Mike Price mentions that only a few years ago, "We paid big bucks for a conference video or audio CD."

What wasn't Web 2.0 was topical news changing the industry -  the shadow of the multiple meltdowns, 60 Minutes - and deserving awards. After contemplating Connect over the weekend, I attempt to explain Web 2.0 (in two parts) within the context of real estate at Transparent Real Estate today.

Thank you everybody at Inman.

--Pat Kitano, Transparent Real Estate

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Kick back, put your feet up and tune in to Inman TV. We're calling it Real Estate Television, and it's our new Video Blog (or vlog) where we get the chance to talk to some of the most important personalities in real estate today.

But InmanTV isn't just about us showing you, it's about you showing us as well.

If you've got a real estate related video, send it in for consideration and we may just publish it on InmanTV. A couple of things to keep in mind...

• Keep it editorial, not advertorial. It's ok to explain to us what your company does but frame it within the context of a greater discussion.
• Let your personality shine through. InmanTV is about people, not products.
• Short but sweet. Keep it tight - under 5 minutes please. Get to the point.
• Don't sweat the technicalities. Don't worry about shooting HD or broadcast ready video here. YouTube is going to kill it anyway.  Make sure your video is well lit, but more importantly, make sure you have decent sound.

To submit a video, shoot your video, upload it to YouTube and then head on over to Inman TV and click the big orange 'Submit a Video' button. If we like what we see, your video will soon be published for the world to see.
 

Karim Tahawi of my-currency.com joins us on the InmanTV couch to explain what exactly is the 'wisdom of the crowds' and how it can be used to value a home.