{"id":1255,"date":"2007-04-03T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2007-04-03T21:05:26","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T04:05:26","slug":"greg-peeing-on-the-tree-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1255\/greg-peeing-on-the-tree-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast with David Gibbons, Zillow.com&#8217;s Director of Community Relations: &#8220;We are throwing the gates wide open to the entire community&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/ZillowPix\/DavidGibbons.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"6\"\/>Appended below is an audio podcast with David Gibbons, Director of Community Relations for Zillow.com. In this recording, David talks with me, reflecting upon the details and implications of tonight&#8217;s new software release.<\/p>\n<p>RE.net readers know David as the voice of Zillow on real estate weblogs, effecting the small miracle detailed in <i>The Cluetrain Manifesto:<\/i> Engaging in the conversation of the marketplace in a way that shows that Zillow will do what it can to ameliorate difficulties. I happen to know that he&#8217;s good at that job, because I have a talent for cultivating difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Until tonight, David&#8217;s title was Director of Customer Service. In addition to tending to the concerns of the RE.net, he was charged with dealing with the email and phone calls a site as busy as Zillow.com incites. He talks a little about that on the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>David is originally from South Africa, which accounts for his accent. Before working for Zillow.com, he worked for Amazon.com.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>BloodhoundBlog features extensive coverage of tonight&#8217;s announcement from Zillow.com:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1257\" target=\"_blank\">A broad overview of the new functionality and its implications<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1256\" target=\"_blank\">Zillow.com&#8217;s press release announcing the new software release<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1255\" target=\"_blank\">A podcast with Director of Community Relations David Gibbons<\/a> (this post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BloodhoundBlog contributor Brian Brady will also be covering the story at these sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/activerain.com\/blogsview\/69134\/Active-Rain-to-get\" target=\"_blank\">Active Rain<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/delmar.typepad.com\/brianbrady\/2007\/04\/new_kid_on_the_.html\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s Most Opinionated Mortgage Broker<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?cat=25\" target=\"_blank\">BloodhoundBlog has published more about Zillow.com than any other weblog or publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appended below is an audio podcast with David Gibbons, Director of Community Relations for Zillow.com. In this recording, David talks with me, reflecting upon the details and implications of tonight&#8217;s new software release. RE.net readers know David as the voice of Zillow on real estate weblogs, effecting the small miracle detailed in The Cluetrain Manifesto: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,18,5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-interview","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-podcast","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-zillowcom","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2664,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2664\/zillowcom-announces-its-sponsorship-of-bloodhoundblog-unchained\/","url_meta":{"origin":1255,"position":0},"title":"Zillow.com announces its sponsorship of BloodhoundBlog Unchained","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"BloodhoundBlog has grown up with Zillow.com. 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Everything is scaled to fit the weblog column, so the live pages, when they\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12764,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12764\/where-would-david-gibbons-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":1255,"position":2},"title":"Where Would David Gibbons Go?","author":"Brian Brady","date":"July 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Home, of course. Anybody who followed his World Cup trip to South Africa saw the glow on his face, in his Facebook pictures, and the longing in his heart, on his Facebook status updates.\u00a0 Social media are interesting platforms.\u00a0 They have the power to bring you much closer to people\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1574,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1574\/seven-days-of-the-dog-bloodhoundblog-is-the-real-estate-weblog-to-turn-to-for-hard-charging-hard-news-reporting\/","url_meta":{"origin":1255,"position":3},"title":"Seven Days of the Dog: BloodhoundBlog is the real estate weblog to turn to for hard-charging hard news reporting","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"BloodhoundBlog is celebrating its first birthday this coming Friday, so I wanted to take a little time to highlight some of the best work we've done over the last twelve months. 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