<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!--Web 2.0 Content Powered by MyST Blogsite® (http://blogsite.com)-->
<!--A service of MyST Technology Partners, Inc. (http://myst-technology.com)-->
<?xml-stylesheet href="http://blog.recyber.com/public/styles/etc/object.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>

<?myst-baseUrl http://blog.recyber.com/public/?>

<MySmartChannels Public="true" UserID="122138" dT="51" t0="1223778354726">
     <GetChannelItem_Result>
      <Item>
       <Resource>
        <ObjectID>184087</ObjectID>
        <ObjectClass>Resource</ObjectClass>
        <OwnerID ObjectClass="Domain" Title="[2] Real Estate Industry Leader's Roundtable">122155</OwnerID>
        <CreatedByID ObjectClass="User" Title="rbarney">123562</CreatedByID>
        <ModifiedByID ObjectClass="User" Title="rbarney">123562</ModifiedByID>
        <CreateTime Title="2007-09-24 10:40:56 EDT">1190644856324</CreateTime>
        <ModifyTime Title="2007-09-24 10:44:37 EDT">1190645077098</ModifyTime>
        <SecurityModel>Controlled</SecurityModel>
        <Name>John Helmering-- Real Estate Interview</Name>
        <Summary>The Evolution of Real Estate Aggregators.</Summary>
        <Description>&lt;img alt="John Helmering" hspace="10" src="http://www.recyber.com/cyberspaceradio/speakers/images/455.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;b&gt;John Helmering&lt;/b&gt; has been selling real estate in Colorado since 1988. He is a Certified Residential Specialist, has served locally as a director for the Vail Board of Realtors, and is a founding member of the Workwide Recreation and Resort Sales Council. John has been recognized nationally as one of the top100 producing Prudential Real Estate Affiliates and has opened several new offices in the Vail Valley, working in the capacity of managing broker. John's passions and pursuits include out of the box marketing, the changing real estate industry and real estate technologies. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2005, John Helmering co-founded &lt;a title="Blog Site" href="http://www.realestateblogsites.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Blogsites&lt;/a&gt;&amp;trade; a service firm that has established itself as the leader in business blogging solutions for the real estate industry. His company has worked in providing corporate and agent blogging solutions along with education for some of the top real estate firms and organizations in the country. His client list includes the National Association of Realtors, Real Living, Exit Realty, Howard Brinton's Star Power, Allen Hainge's Cyberstars, and the industry's largest virtual real estate community-the Real Estate CyberSpace Society. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;In his real estate interview at &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a title="Radio" href="http://www.recyber.com/cyberspaceradio" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#cc9900"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Real Estate CyberSpace Radio&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;he&amp;nbsp;discusses the following&amp;nbsp;real estate information:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;The Evolution of Real Estate Aggregators&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;A number of aggregators outside real estate from industries such as media and travel recognized an opportunity to present property information to buyers online; however, these vendors found that real estate is not the simple commodity they envisioned. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;It is important for an agent to be involved in transactions most of the time because matching buyers with properties is so subjective; agents will always be needed to facilitate transactions. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;Early aggregators include HomeGain and Lending Tree; they charge agents a fee for referrals. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;Some of the newer, Web 2.0 aggregators-such as Trulia, Google Base and Edgeio-allow property listings to be included in a database for all consumers; these sites, which send buyers and sellers back to real estate agents for free, perform a real service for both consumers and agents. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;REALTOR.com, the most famous aggregator, is very agent-centric; since that site was inaugurated, outsiders have been trying to capture real estate space.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;In this briefing&amp;nbsp;he also&amp;nbsp;covers the following useful real estate topics:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;Web 2.0 Defined&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;Social Networking&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;&amp;quot;Findability&amp;quot; Online&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;Real Estate Blogsites&amp;trade; (REB)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;More Cutting Edge Tools&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"&gt;A Blogging Deal&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Estate in Perspective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</Description>
        <ResourceTypeID ObjectClass="ResourceType" Title="Item:Link">9</ResourceTypeID>
        <ContentType>application/xml</ContentType>
        <ContentDocument>
         <ItemProperties>
               <CommonProperties>
                <Hidden>false</Hidden>

                <Keywords>
                 <Keyword>John Helmering</Keyword>

                 <Keyword>Real Estate Aggregators</Keyword>

                 <Keyword>Real Estate Blogsites</Keyword>

                 <Keyword>Real Estate CyberSpace Radio</Keyword>

                 <Keyword>Real Estate Interview</Keyword>

                 <Keyword>Web 2.0</Keyword>

       </Keywords>

                <Links>
                 <Link>
                  <Title>Interested in other Real Estate CyberSpace Radio interviews?</Title>

                  <Synopsis>The Real Estate CyberSpace Society provides realtors with access to other top notch real estate interviews!</Synopsis>

                  <URL>http://www.recyber.com/cyberspaceradio</URL>

        </Link>

       </Links>

      </CommonProperties>

               <RemoteInfo>
                <UserAgent>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)</UserAgent>

                <RemoteHost>127.0.0.1</RemoteHost>

                <RemoteAddr>127.0.0.1</RemoteAddr>

                <RemoteUser>rbarney</RemoteUser>

      </RemoteInfo>

     </ItemProperties>
        </ContentDocument>
       </Resource>
       <Shares/>
       <Subjects/>
       <UserPermissions>
        <CanDelete>false</CanDelete>
        <CanDiscover>true</CanDiscover>
        <CanEdit>false</CanEdit>
        <CanEditPermissions>false</CanEditPermissions>
        <CanRead>true</CanRead>
       </UserPermissions>
       <CommentInfo>
        <CommentChannelRef AllowAnonymous="true" Inherited="true">
         <ChannelID ObjectClass="Channel" Title="[Public] Public Comments">205853</ChannelID>
         <UserPermissions>
          <CanCreateChannelItem>false</CanCreateChannelItem>
          <CanDelete>false</CanDelete>
          <CanDiscover>true</CanDiscover>
          <CanEdit>false</CanEdit>
          <CanEditPermissions>false</CanEditPermissions>
          <CanPublish>false</CanPublish>
          <CanRead>true</CanRead>
         </UserPermissions>
        </CommentChannelRef>
        <Comments/>
       </CommentInfo>
       <Views>
        <SourceID ObjectClass="Channel" Title="[2] Real Estate Industry Leader's Roundtable">122155</SourceID>

               <View>
                <Name>blog</Name>

                <Model>blogsite/RECyber/web</Model>

                <Style/>

                <Scheme/>

       </View>

      </Views>
        <Views>
         <SourceID ObjectClass="Channel" Shared="true" Title="[Public] What's New">122161</SourceID>

                <View>
                 <Name>blog</Name>

                 <Model>blogsite/RECyber/whatsnew</Model>

                 <Style/>

                 <Scheme/>

       </View>

                <View>
                 <Name>edit-item</Name>

                 <Model>blogsite/RECyber/web</Model>

                 <Style/>

                 <Scheme/>

       </View>

                <View>
                 <Name>left</Name>

                 <Model>blogsite/RECyber/left-content</Model>

                 <Style/>

                 <Scheme/>

       </View>

                <View>
                 <Name>right</Name>

                 <Model>blogsite/RECyber/right-content</Model>

                 <Style/>

                 <Scheme/>

       </View>

                <View>
                 <Name>wide</Name>

                 <Model>blogsite/RECyber/wide-content</Model>

                 <Style/>

                 <Scheme/>

       </View>

      </Views>
        </Item>
       </GetChannelItem_Result>
      </MySmartChannels>
