We returned home late last night after a horrible 12 hour drive from DC. Traffic and weather conditions were a total nightmare. Jay even managed to get us lost a few time despite the GPS’s best efforts to give him directions…needless to say it was not a “fun” ride. 
The conference was very good albeit it very busy. Tuesday night we attended the New Hampshire Welcome reception held at the Omni Shoreham. It was fun to mingle with fellow New Hampshire-ites and chat up the conference.
One thing that I noticed through-out the conference was technology, internet and blogs. I think the National Association of REALTORS sees the writing on the wall and is attempting to “wake-up” the masses but I think that the masses are not yet ready to wake up. Jay and I Twittered our conference experience and I know we were the only NH REALTORS to do so. One cool thing to happen was we got interviewed by the Real Estate Zebra Daniel Rothamel, it is a long interview but if you want to see it follow the link to the Agent Genius site where he posted it.
We also spent some time with fellow real estate bloggers from all over the country, that’s the beauty of Blogging, even though many of us had never met in person we all felt like we knew each other. We enjoyed a great dinner that was organized by Matt Rathbun with the RE.net/ Twitter gang and on Thursday enjoyed a presentation by fellow Bloggers Chris Elizabeth Griffith, Tony Arko and Kieth Garner known as @ktgeek on twitter.
We both attended many presentations about information affecting real estate, the market and future projections. I’ll be posting more about the conference later but in the meantime enjoy my slide show of The New Hampshire Welcome reception and some of the RE.net world folks in DC.
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1 Linda Davis // May 17, 2008 at 10:39 am
I see so many faces I know! I’ll be there next year. It is too close to pass up. I think I’ll take the train though. That drive sounded miserable.
2 moni // May 17, 2008 at 11:06 am
Linda… I hope you can make it next year. I would have flown or taken the motor home but I have a burst ear drum so no flying and we didn’t have enough time to take the motor home. The ride home could have been a lot better had we left on Saturday and not gotten lost
3 Chris Shouse // May 17, 2008 at 11:38 am
I wish I could have been there to meet all my twitter friends in person. Sounds as if it was very good information and a lot of fun to boot. I enjoyed the twitter updates.
4 Chris Griffith // May 17, 2008 at 11:40 am
It was great meeting so many friends. I can’t wait until November to meet the rest of them! Thank you for attending my forum, Monika & Jay, and for supervising my Metro experience.
5 Ann Cummings // May 17, 2008 at 7:19 pm
What a bummer I chose to miss this one - sounds like it’s one that I really would have enjoyed. Certainly seeing all those pics full of people I know online would have been fun to meet as well.
Orlando for sure, and DC probably next year, too!
6 New Hampshire’s lovely rugged seacoast // May 18, 2008 at 3:48 pm
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7 Monika McGillicuddy // May 18, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Chris C. It was a lot of fun meeting everyone in person.
Chris G. Your forum session was awesome. See you in Orlando!
Ann …Orlando for sure!!!!
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