RE Barcamp and Beer With Bloggers were a blast!

Wow.

I got home from Inman Connect SF 2008 on Saturday (finally), and between all the pictures I took, and getting caught up on work, I am just getting around to posting about my experience. It was awesome.

The whole thing began on Tuesday with RE Barcamp and Beer With Bloggers. RE Barcamp was a very interesting experience, since it was a completely ad-hoc gathering of industry folks to talk about everything from blogging to photography. The topcis were diverse, the discussion was lively, and a good time was had by all. Brad Coy, who was one of the chief organizers of the event, got my thoughts in an interview just after everything wrapped up for the day:

One of the things that I took particular joy in doing was sharing with everyone the RE Barcamp Surprise. I worked together with Grant and Gia from RealSeekr.com to put together super hero trading cards for folks who were able to get their information to us. It was short notice, but we had about 75 people participate. Here are the cards just before they were handed out:

Handing them out was a lot of fun, and people even traded them amongst each other. They were quite a hit, and Nick Bastian shared his collection with everyone:

(Pic Courtesy of RailLife)

Bill Wendel was there and caught some of my presentation on video:

The whole thing was a very memorable experience, and I can’t wait to see everyone again in NYC. In order to save all those memories, I took as many pictures as I could (I actually took a lot more, but user error resulted in some blurry photos). You can view the entire set on my Flickr page.

The experience also resulted in a lot of very interesting and enlightening conversations and ideas. You can bet that RE Barcamp and Beer With Bloggers is the inspiration for many posts to come. . .

mike simonsen

Daniel - those cards were a huge hit! Kudos to you guys for pulling that off. What a great day.

Brad Coy

Worst idea of the day was bringing my laptop...never opened it up we were so crazed. Best idea was keeping my Xacti camera handy. Thanks for the recap. What makes REBarCamp is having guys like you showing up and going all out and participating. Like you had nothing else to do all week.

Great to meet you Daniel.

Daniel Rothamel

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Brian Block

Daniel,

The Blogger trading cards ROCK! They were definitely one of the big highlights of the entire week in San Francisco. Thanks for all your hard work and efforts in making REBARCamp and Bloggers Connect such a success.

Nick Bastian

When you say, "it was awesome" and "the whole thing was a memorable experience," I couldn't agree more. Thanks so much for all of the work you and so many others put in to the events. I really enjoyed getting to know a whole bunch of REALLY great people. Keep "rockin the stripes," my friend!

Gia & Grant Freer

Without a doubt, REBarCamp and Beer for Bloggers not only rocked the stripes but kept it real too! Had a blast working with you Daniel - fantastic idea. Oh, by the way, thank you for our Zebra Shirts - Grant was wearing his on Saturday when Lewis Hamilton took Pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix :)