{"id":2320,"date":"2007-12-04T17:50:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T00:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2007-12-04T18:21:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T01:21:30","slug":"inman-bloggers-disconnect-absorbing-the-priceless-wisdom-of-brilliant-speakers-who-are-not-doing-what-youre-trying-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2320\/inman-bloggers-disconnect-absorbing-the-priceless-wisdom-of-brilliant-speakers-who-are-not-doing-what-youre-trying-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Inman Bloggers&#8217; Disconnect: Absorbing the priceless wisdom of brilliant speakers who are not doing what you&#8217;re trying to do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of salient facts, evidently unknown behind the Rust Curtain of the Inman Empire:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To the extent that Glenn Kelman is a weblogger at all, he is a corporate weblogger. He doesn&#8217;t know anything about real estate weblogging, as he made plain in his sweet, charming, engaging keynote address at last summer&#8217;s Blogger&#8217;s Connect.\n<\/li>\n<li>Lockhart Steele publishes real estate porn. I&#8217;m told Curbed is a fun read (I don&#8217;t read it), but it&#8217;s not real estate weblogging as we understand it. As with Kelman, I&#8217;m sure Steele knows many interesting things. They&#8217;re just not the things real estate webloggers might hope to learn by attending Blogger&#8217;s Connect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So: Inman runs an event, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2305\" target=\"_blank\">Have a Cigar<\/a> as far as I can tell, and delivers speakers who know nothing about the topic.<\/p>\n<p>This makes sense to whom?<\/p>\n<p>The logical choices for the keynote address were\u00a0me, Dustin Luther, Brian Brady or Joel Burslem. Brad Inman seems to carefully identify and recruit coveted audiences so he can spit on them, but, in this case, I think the man simply doesn&#8217;t\u00a0know what he doesn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Come to the Blogger&#8217;s Connect keynote address and learn how to&#8230; what?<\/p>\n<p>Truly stoopid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A big bonus for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?page_id=2245\" target=\"_blank\">BloodhoundBlog Unchained<\/a>, in any case. We were going to kick ass anyway, but the contrast will be that much more telling.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Inman\" rel=\"tag\">Inman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Inman Connect\" rel=\"tag\">Inman Connect<\/a>, <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>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate training\" rel=\"tag\">real estate training<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of salient facts, evidently unknown behind the Rust Curtain of the Inman Empire: To the extent that Glenn Kelman is a weblogger at all, he is a corporate weblogger. He doesn&#8217;t know anything about real estate weblogging, as he made plain in his sweet, charming, engaging keynote address at last summer&#8217;s [&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":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1487,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1487\/dancing-on-bridges-understanding-great-real-estate-webloggers\/","url_meta":{"origin":2320,"position":0},"title":"Dancing on bridges: Apprehending great real estate webloggers&#8230;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[Okay, BloodhoundBlog will be two years old in less than an hour. 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