{"id":433,"date":"2006-12-05T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2022-10-13T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T16:26:10","slug":"a-record-turnout-for-meetup-over-35-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/a-record-turnout-for-meetup-over-35-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"A Record Turnout for Meetup &#8211; over 35 participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a busy day.  We ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/events\">2 training sessions<\/a> on the same day as the <a href=\"http:\/\/realestateagent.meetup.com\/109\/calendar\/5249618\/\">RET Meetup<\/a> so that our out of town agents could make a day out of it.  It was great to see such a strong turnout.<\/p>\n<p>The morning started with one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/events\">our regular training sessions<\/a> at 10:00am.  We added a new session yesterday called Study Hall.  The Study Hall was a presentation on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) done by Derek who is one of our lead programmers.  It was an educational session on what CSS is, how it works, the benefits, etc.  All in all it was a great presentation.  After Derek we had a open format for agents to ask specific questions about their websites.  It was a great opportunity to work with agents on specific ideas or questions that they have.  We discussed and helped setup <a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.com\">Feedburner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rss_reader\">RSS Readers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps&amp;nui=1&amp;continue=https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/siteoverview%3Fhl%3Den&amp;hl=en\">Google Sitemaps<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">Google Analytics<\/a>, plus much more.  It was a success and we will be running it again.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/realestateagent.meetup.com\/109\/calendar\/5249618\/\">Vancouver Real Estate Tech December Meetup<\/a> at 6:00pm last night was a big success.  There was a record turnout and some great presentations.<\/p>\n<p>On short notice we adjusted the agenda and invited my brother <strong>Michael Jagger of <a href=\"http:\/\/providentsecurity.ca\/\">Provident Security<\/a><\/strong> to speak.  He talked about common security problems and ways to counter act them.  Plus showed so pictures of some common break ins and what could be done to <a href=\"http:\/\/providentsecurity.typepad.com\/community_security_the_pr\/2006\/03\/five_minute_pro.html\">5 Minute Proof a home<\/a>.  Then he discussed his success with <a href=\"http:\/\/providentsecurity.typepad.com\/community_security_the_pr\/\">his blog<\/a> and how it has effected his business.<\/p>\n<p>Next, myself and <strong>Mitch Jarvi from Reachd.com<\/strong> did 2 website reviews where we brought a couple of sites up onto the big screen so that we could review what the agent was doing with their site and any feedback either of us had or the group had.  &#8211; Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver4sale.ca\/\">Jack Ying<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegiesbrecht.com\/\">Mike Giesbrecht<\/a> for volenteering their sites &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, we had <strong>Gordon Lau from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebgv.org\">Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver<\/a><\/strong> discuss copyrights and how <a href=\"http:\/\/crea.ca\/\">CREA<\/a> works to protect the copyrights that they have.  Gordan had some great information about what domain names you can&#8217;t register and how certain terms need to be phrased on your website.<\/p>\n<p>We also had a <strong>silent auction<\/strong> with all proceeds going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbank.bc.ca\/\">Vancouver Food Bank<\/a>.  The auction generated over $600.00 in donations for the Food Bank and included a Nintendo Wii, <a href=\"http:\/\/vOpenHouse.ca\">vOpenHouse.ca<\/a> Video Tours, a customized Ubertor website from <a href=\"http:\/\/RealStock.ca\">RealStock.ca<\/a>, 2 One Hour Coaching Sessions from Dara at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RealtySupport.ca\">RealtySupport.ca<\/a> and a last minute entry of 2 hours of secretarial work.<\/p>\n<p>We also collected cash and food donations for the Food Bank.  We have quite a few boxes full of food.   A big <strong>thank you to Milan&#8217;s Bistro<\/strong> for letting us use his yaletown restaurant for our sessions all day today and a big thank you for his food donation.  Milan filled 2 of the boxes himself with supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures of last nights Meetup thanks to RealStock.ca:<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/wp-content\/IMG_9365realstock.jpg\" alt=\"myrealpage demo\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/wp-content\/IMG_9368realstock.jpg\" alt=\"provident security presentation\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/wp-content\/IMG_9374realstock.jpg\" alt=\"vancouver real estate meetup\"><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/wp-content\/IMG_9378Realstock.jpg\" alt=\"milans bistro yaletown\"><\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/a-record-turnout-for-meetup-over-35-participants\/' data-title='A Record Turnout for Meetup &#8211; over 35 participants' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/a-record-turnout-for-meetup-over-35-participants\/' data-title='A Record Turnout for Meetup &#8211; over 35 participants' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a busy day. We ran 2 training sessions on the same day as the RET Meetup so that our out of town agents could make a day out of it. It was great to see such a strong turnout. The morning started with one of our regular training sessions at 10:00am. 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