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“In the Nest” Episode 1 – Special Guest: Tara Hunt, Author of The Whuffie Factor

Derek Overbey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:08:47 +0000

This is Episode 1 of our new video series called “In the Nest” where we interview various personalities both inside and outside the real estate industry. In our first episode, we were privileged enough to secure an interview with Tara Hunt (AKA @missrogue) the night before her keynote at the REALTORS Conference & Expo in San Diego this last weekend.

We had the opportunity to sit down with her and ask her why she was chosen to speak at the conference [...]

Recap of The 2009 REALTORS® Conference & Expo and REBarCamp San Diego

Derek Overbey — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:43:18 +0000

So I’m back from attending RE BarCamp San Diego and the 2009 REALTORS Conference & Expo in sunny San Diego. It was one of the best that I have ever attended from a content standpoint. The sessions were well thought out and the speakers were intelligent, insightful and some were even humorous ( Teresa Boardman AKA @tboard, this is targeted to you).

The Expo was a little smaller than in year’s past and there [...]

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

Derek Overbey — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:40:17 +0000

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 [...]

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

roostblog — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:19:35 +0000

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 [...]

Roost was captured by the Nerd Stalker

roostblog — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:42:54 +0000

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.

Interview of Gary Vaynerchuk at Inman Connect NYC

roostblog — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:22:41 +0000

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

Is Home Ownership still the American Dream?

roostblog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:59:06 +0000

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 [...]

Can You Use Your Website As a Trampoline?

roostblog — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:37:09 +0000

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 [...]

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

roostblog — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:52:41 +0000

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 [...]

Social Networking and Real Estate

roostblog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:57:38 +0000

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 “