{"id":5483,"date":"2008-11-10T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T19:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2008-11-10T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T19:03:15","slug":"unchained-notes-an-outsiders-view-from-inside-the-hound-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5483\/unchained-notes-an-outsiders-view-from-inside-the-hound-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained Notes: An Outsider&#8217;s View From Inside the Hound Pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Random Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nA day and a half since I left Unchained Orlando, but my head is still spinning.\u00a0 Maybe it was Orlando &#8211; the home of Disneyworld &#8211; that added to the surreal nature of the experience.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t been there, Orlando is beautiful in a Disney kind of way: everything is clean and bright and just a little plasticized.\u00a0 Maybe the buildings all use the same 7\/8 scale that Disney uses, or maybe Unchained was just oversized&#8230; hard to say.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days I am going to share a few of the gold nuggets I panned from the rapid flood of information that was one long, intense, ecstatic day at Unchained.\u00a0 But not today.\u00a0 Today I am still sifting and understanding.\u00a0 Today I have only themes and simple data &#8211; points of interest that do not connect into a greater whole.\u00a0 For new information to infiltrate and impact our daily activities it must be processed and that is where I find myself: clarifying the headers, organizing the outline and slowly expanding the void with pages and pages of ideas handed to me while I was there.\u00a0 Bloodhound Unchained in 36 hours.\u00a0 A blur of activity, a multitude of speakers &#8211; each sharing freely and every last one of them speaking much too quickly for my longhand chicken scratch &#8211; and laughing.\u00a0 Laughing so much at times my sides hurt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dark Theme Emerges<\/strong><br \/>\nThe one theme I find over and over again is most assuredly not on Greg or Brian&#8217;s agenda, but the results speak for themselves.\u00a0 Allow me a few words on most of the speakers and tell me if you see a thematic element:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we opened with Greg discussing the Greeks and the disciplined violence that was the Spartans<\/li>\n<li>you had Brian sharing the dark secrets of being a Ninja in social media marketing<\/li>\n<li>Teri warned of a fatal addiction to the Tweet drug<\/li>\n<li>there was Kelly exhibiting the cool, detached efficiency of a hit man targeting Google<\/li>\n<li>Mitch covered 100mph and proved that speed does kill the competition<\/li>\n<li>we were exposed to John&#8217;s killer app<\/li>\n<li>and finally, Eric explained how to make the organically grown poison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5483\/unchained-notes-an-outsiders-view-from-inside-the-hound-pound\/#more-5483\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random Thoughts A day and a half since I left Unchained Orlando, but my head is still spinning.\u00a0 Maybe it was Orlando &#8211; the home of Disneyworld &#8211; that added to the surreal nature of the experience.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t been there, Orlando is beautiful in a Disney kind of way: everything is clean and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3570,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3570\/unchained-in-orlando-scouting-disneyville-for-the-perfect-location\/","url_meta":{"origin":5483,"position":0},"title":"Unchained in Orlando: Scouting Disneyville for the perfect location","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We got to go to StarPower this year as guests of Russell and Wendy Shaw, which was very gracious on their part and positively dispositive on ours: We could not have made the trip without them. 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