Archive of derek overbey

Roost’s 50 RE People You Should Follow on Twitter for October 2009

So here is our fourth installment of Roost’s 50 Real Estate People You Should Follow on Twitter. If you are seeing this list for the first time, you need to stop and click the July List, August List and September List first because there are some incredible people in real estate who you could be following on Twitter. I know our October List is coming out a little late, but there is a reason. I attended RE [...]

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Derek Overbey to Speak at REBlogWorld on Social Media in Real Estate

We are proud to announce that Derek Overbey, Senior Director of Marketing & Social Media at Roost, will be speaking at REBlogWorld next week on a panel titled “Social Media in Real Estate. He will be sharing the stage with such notable social media veterans as Jeff Turner, Jay Thompson and Rhonda Porter with moderation from Matt Fagioli, newly appointed VP of Business Development at Inman.

Derek is a 14 year veteran of the real estate and technology  industries with stints [...]

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Roost was captured by the Nerd Stalker

I had the pleasure of meeting Adolfo Foronda on Seesmic last year. I thought he was a great guy with a witty sense of humor. Little did I know, he lived a second life as the Nerd Stalker. While hanging out at one of the latest Mashable Monthly soirees, I had the opportunity to sit down with the Nerd Stalker to tell him a little about Roost. Click here to see the short interview.

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Interview of Gary Vaynerchuk at Inman Connect NYC

@doverbey and @morganb interview @garyvee and Inman Connect NYC.

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Is Home Ownership still the American Dream?

The credit crunch, bank failures and Wall Street meltdown has been the negative talk for the last several weeks. And before that all we tended to hear about was how bad the housing market had become. Has all this negative talk killed the American Dream of owning a home? I think not.

If you look at the increased traffic to real estate and real estate related websites like Roost.com, people are still out there trying to grab on to that [...]

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Can You Use Your Website As a Trampoline?

Do you remember when you were a kid and you would spend all day at some neighbor’s house bouncing up and down on their trampoline? Well that bouncing may have been a lot of fun when you were a kid, but it sure isn’t any fun when it comes to your website!

According to the Wikipedia definition a bounce occurs when a website visitor leaves a page or a site without visiting any other pages before a specified session-timeout occurs. What [...]

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Roost.com is going to Inman’s Real Estate Connect

So it’s mid-July, and to most, the holiday season is still five months away. But for all those real estate technology geeks out there, our Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa starts on Tuesday and lasts the rest of the week. Inman’s Real Estate Connect San Francisco is once again gracing us with its presence in this beautiful city of ours.

This is the one event that cannot be missed if you work in the real estate technology space. It’s a [...]

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Social Networking and Real Estate

We know how important social networking is becoming in our daily lives. Drew Izzo, CMO of Roost.com, and I attended SocialMediaCamp this last Tuesday and learned how social networking sites are being integrating into businesses everywhere. From Twitter to LinkedIn to Facebook, the world is becoming connected.

So I got a tweet this morning from Peter Cashmore at Mashable.com linking me to a post on their site titled “

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