
Manager, Real Estate Blogger at Strong Team REALTORS, Founder-- RealEstateZebra.com, Commnunity Manager at Inman News
Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Manager, Real Estate Blogger at Strong Team REALTORS, Founder-- RealEstateZebra.com, Commnunity Manager at Inman News
Charlottesville, Virginia Area
(Real Estate industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
My role as Community Manager is to function as a link between the Inman News members and users and the Inman News management team. My responsibilities include: moderating user comments and group topics in the Inman.com Community: creating content for the Inman Blog and daily news headlines that highlights contributions of the Inman.com Community; providing feedback to the management team from the Community on various projects and initiatives; developing and coordinating the content for Blogger's Connect, a component of the Inman Connect Conference; reaching out the the larger community of real estate industry professionals in order to increase membership and involvement at Inman.com.
(Real Estate industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
RealEstateZebra.com is a comprehensive Web 2.0 resource for news, opinion, and information that effects real estate professionals. From blogging to vlogging to podcasting, RealEstateZebra.com provides entertaining and informative content for real estate professionals. I also give presentations to various conferences and groups for real estate professionals, ranging in topic from use of video and other technology tools, to the impact of social media on the real estate industry.
(Real Estate industry)
December 2005 — Present (4 years )
Strong Team REALTORS is an independent real estate brokerage that I helped start along with my wife, Kari, and my mother-in-law Patsy Strong, who is the Principal Broker. We provide professional real estate services to the Charlottesville area.
(Real Estate industry)
2004 — Present (5 years )
(Real Estate industry)
January 2004 — December 2005 (2 years )
English 2000 — 2003
English 1998 — 2000
real estate, marketing, technology, politics, BMW, basketball, officiating
Charlottesville Area Association of REALTORS, National Association of REALTORS, Virginia Association of REALTLORS Commercial Alliance, Piedmont-Shenandoah Basketball Officials Association, BMW Car Club of America,, Virginia Association of REALTORS, Real Estate Blogosphere, Rapport, Twitter, Officiating
-Featured in October 27, 2008 Wall Street Journal article highlighting the use of Twitter in business
-Presentation before the Marketing and IT Directors for the member brokerages of The Realty Alliance Nov. 2008 (topic: The impact of social media on Real Estate brokerages)
-Presentation for the National Association of REALTORS Center for REALTOR Technology Nov. 2008 (topic: how to use Flickr in business)
-Appointed as the Vice-Chair of the National Association of REALTORS Business and Technology Forum (2009)
-Presenter at Real Estate Blogworld Sept. 2008 (topic: using video in real estate business)
-Panelist at Inman Bloggers Connect San Francisco July 2008 (topic: Take your blog to the next level)
-Panelist at Inman Bloggers Connect New York City January 2008 (topic: use of video in real estate business)