Bloggers Bring Buzz to Real Estate Connect NYC 2006 Conference, January 11-13


NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/09/06 -- Blogging, the new-fangled
mode of online communication, has taken over the online real estate
industry as one of the most innovative sources for local, hands-on
housing and neighborhood information. Real estate's most prominent
bloggers will provide perspective at Inman News' Real Estate Connect
NYC conference (January 11-13, 2006, Marriott Marquis, New York) on
how blogs are transforming the industry and how brokers and agents can
use blogs to market real estate. Blog sessions at Connect will range
from: "Blog-o-rama: Using Blogs to Market Real Estate" to "The World
is Changing: A Look at the Industry from the Outside."


"With Inman News' news reporting heritage, one of our goals at Real
Estate Connect is to highlight the most innovative tools, technologies
and media outlets to market real estate and inform home buyers and
sellers on the housing market," explains Bradley Inman, Founder and
Publisher of Inman News (www.inman.com). "The conversational,
community-based aspect to blogging is perfectly suited to real
estate."


Blogger celebrities such as Curbed.com's Lockhart Steele have
generated so much interest in the topic that Real Estate Connect
organizers are co-hosting an invitation-only party with Curbed.com and
craigslist.org at a hot downtown nightspot for 300 of those in the
know. Exact date, time and location are being kept under wraps.



-- Curbed.com - Lockhart Steele, publisher, and Alexis Palmer, director

of operations

Curbed.com is the irreverent center of the virtual New York City real

estate conversation -- and beyond. Updated more than a dozen times

daily, Curbed has been so successful since its May 2004 launch that

it has spun off Los Angeles real estate blog Curbed LA, architecture

blog, The Gutter, and food blog, The Eater.


-- Brownstoner.com - Anonymous, blogger

The secretive author of Brownstoner has built a blogging empire on "an

unhealthy obsession with historic Brooklyn brownstones and the

neighborhoods and lifestyles they define." He (She?) will be wearing a

mask at Real Estate Connect NYC to preserve his (her?) anonymity.


-- Gothamist.com - Jake Dobkins, publisher

Gothamist is a Website about New York City and everything that happens

in it: news and events, restaurants and bars, happenings and goings-on.

Liesl Schillinger of The New York Times Book Review describes Gothamist

as a "marvelous, not-to-be-missed Web site" and "a crystal ball that

reflects everything worth knowing about this city."



Blogging is just one of many hot, new topics being addressed at the
Real Estate Connect NYC 2006. Craig Newmark, founder and customer
service representative of craigslist, may reveal more details about
his secret venture that will help people find the most trusted
versions of the more important news stories on the Web. The conference
will also tackle topics including: Mapping and Mobile Technology, MLS
Debate, Real Estate-Mortgage Dance, Luxury Home Marketing, Anti-Trust,
Paperless Technology Innovations, Power Broker Divas, and much more.


ABOUT REAL ESTATE CONNECT


Real Estate Connect attracts the industry's most influential decision
makers, opinion leaders and technology experts into an active forum
for discussion and debate. Attendees can participate in nearly a dozen
interactive roundtable sessions, ask the industry experts their
burning questions and network with future partners and customers.
Leading venture capital firms, technology innovators and real estate
executives will also provide their insights and knowledge.


Real Estate Connect NYC 2006 is supported by premier sponsors
including: Bank of America, MapQuest Business Solutions, Fidelity
National Financial, HomeGain, Real Living, Stewart Realty Solutions,
the National Association of Realtor's Center for Realtor Technology,
Technology Concepts, RealtyTrac, WolfNet Technologies, the New York
State Association of Realtors, Pennsylvania Association of Realtors,
Connecticut Association of Realtors, New Jersey Association of
Realtors, the Real Estate Board of New York, IMPREV, Instanet
Solutions, Countrywide Financial Corporation, RealEstate.com, the New
York Times and eNeighborhoods.


Find out more about Real Estate Connect NYC 2006 online at:
http://www.inman.com/connectny.


ABOUT INMAN NEWS


Inman News (www.inman.com) is the nation's leading independent real
estate news service and content provider to 250+ U.S. newspapers and
50,000 Web sites. Inman reaches millions of consumers each day through
clients and partners such as The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald,
Washington Post, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago
Tribune, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, The Wall Street Journal Online,
CBS MarketWatch, and many more.


Inman offers information-based products and services for the real
estate professional and consumer, including special reports, digital
media and premium news content for the Web. Inman also produces
several Real Estate Connect conferences per year for the real estate
industry, gathering together a high-powered mix of entrepreneurs and
industry leaders who network and share innovations in technology and
business models to enhance the industry and overall home
buying/selling experience.


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