We are so excited, and honored that you are taking time away from your family and business to come and share your knowledge with us! THANK YOU!

As you know, this is the first time we’ve helped organize a Real Estate BarCamp, and it has definately been a learning experience!

We are blessed to have a great facility - with six Break Out Rooms. Dakno will be live streaming, and we’ve check (and re-checked) that we have plenty of Bandwidth! (since the event is at our TMLS office and Raleigh Regional Association of Realtors Offices… we figured doing something that brought TMLS “down” would be a legacy we didn’t need!  ROFL!!)  In addition, we have 2 other video crews / cameras that will tape sessions, and put them on the web after the event!

Several Thought Leaders requested that we have White Boards in their room. We realize this is the GREENEST way to do a presentation – however we will be using large “recycled paper” on Easles.  We also have overhead projectors, with Screens and a laptop that we will test with it it prior to that morning.  If you want to hook yours up – cool, if you want to use a thumb drive – that’s cool too. If there’s something else you need, please raise your hand so we can have it available!  (in the larger rooms we have microphones)

We have a fairly large group of Attendees (we registered/have on the list close to 350)!  The largest room holds 300.  We’ve been told that “they don’t all come,” by other organizers… we’ve also been told by our Board that they generally have a 90% attendance for this type of event… So we are expecting more than 250 people and LESS than 300!

If you are driving in the morning of the event, please read this regarding parking. We are asking Thought Leaders to get there around 8:30.  We want to recheck microphones, check and be sure your overhead presentation works, answer any questions you have… and we are setting up what we are referring to as the “Green Room” for you guys.  The “Welcome” starts at 9:30, and the first session starts at 10:15.

We have a fairly large number of Thought Leaders! This is GREAT since the goal is to break this large group down to small groups!  At times we could be running 5 Sessions!  We’ve continued to “poll” the Attendees, and we expecting to have “Beginner 101,” Intermediate Sessions for folks who are currently Blogging, using FaceBook, maybe on Twitter – but need some tips so they will see more closed deals from their activity, and some “Advanced Sessions,” that we hope some of you guys will enjoy!

Prior to Lynchburg, Nannette Saunders told me, “It’s our job to get the people here, have a space and the equipment they need – the rest will work out!” We especially agree that this is true!  We are hoping that some of you will decide to work as a panel, one attendee suggested that there could be a panel of “Success Stories We R Closing Deals from Online Marketing” suggesting that folks really want to hear from Agents who are really using these tools and closing deals!

Again, THANK YOU for coming and sharing what you’ve learned!  Remember to bring your camera, and your spirit of flexibility and willingness to work with us to make this a GREAT event for everyone!