Anne Gardner's suggested topic:

- What gives you inspiration for your Blog, where's the Fodder?

- What do you regret blogging about in Real Estate? Specific posts or a way you structured your first blog, can you tell I am learning here?

Ben Martin's suggested topic:
* The latest CREST blogging survey data.

Candy Lynn -

• I love for someone (not me) to walk us thru converting from wordpress.com to wordpress.org also how to set up a wordpress.org from scratch... (I second this one!!)
• I'm going to be "covering" the bloggercon so please seek me out for interviews etc
  

Brian Block's suggested topics:
* "You've Got a Blog -- Now What?" -- How to Blog for Business
* Incorporating Video & Humor in Your Blog

Danilo Bogdanovic

• How was your approach to blogging changed since you first started?
• What technologies have you incorporated into your blogging efforts in 2008?
• What technologies that could be incorporated into your blog/blogging efforts would you like to see come out in the future?

P.S. I'll be "covering" the BloggerCon as well and will be getting everyone's feedback throughout the afternoon.

Matt Wilkins

• tips for converting fron diferent blog platforms (typepad,blogger, etc.) to wordpress.org {Thanks, Matt - I have a Typepad that I can't wait to migrate to WP.org, I just don't know what I'm doing. If someone wants to use my site as a test subject, I'm glad to help with that. - Jeremy Hart}
  
• using your blog to effectively connect iwth potential clients
• knwoing when it's apprpriate to break out and use multiple blogs

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The following are talks that were suggested for Real Estate BloggerCon 2.0 (Spring 2008)

Danilo Bogdanovic's suggested topics:
* Why do you blog?
* Are you converting lurkers/lookers into clients?
* Which social media sites (could be your blog) are your clients finding you through?
* What feedback have you been getting from clients that found you through your blog or social media sites?
* How does your blog compare to other local agents and their blogs or static sites in search engines?


Frank LLosa's suggested topics:

• Shoot like a professional. Kodak v570 tutorial. And edit photos for your MLS listings.
• How to make a Washington Post Sunday 2 line ad for $16

Ben Martin's suggested topics:

• Stupid blog tricks (set up roundtables for Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger and Active Rain blogging platforms, and learn from your peers about how to trick out your blog)
• Real estate blogging research (Brainstorm development of a real estate blogging survey that would help us benchmark how blogs are being used and to what extent. Some potential questions to ask: 1) As of today, how many subscribers do you have? 2) What blogging platform do you use? 3) What site analytics package do you use? 4) How many unique visitors have you had in the past year? 5) What is your average length of visit for the past year? 6) What social bookmarking plugin are you using, if any? 7) Do you publish a full or partial RSS feed? 8) Do you offer subscribe by email? 9) What is your incoming traffic breakdown? [direct, referral, search] 10) How many posts have you made in the past year?

The Zebra's suggested topics:

* Developing a plan for content creation.
* Improving the quality of your content for your readers. (formatting, copywriting, editing, etc.)
* Integrating your blog into other social media efforts.
* Side note-- Wet Paint doesn't fully support Safari-- WTF?

Other potential topics:

• Widgets that Work (from Plugoo to Vyew, Meebo to Wufoo and every crazy Web 2.0 company name in between, what widgets deliver real value?)
• How to write for SEO and not come across like a robot
• Book reports (Wikinomics, Here Comes Everybody, Freakonomics, whatever’s hot on your reading list)
• Legal, ethical and regulatory implications for REALTORS® using social media
• Integrating other social networking sites (Linkedin, Facebook, etc.) into your blogging efforts.