Re: [projectvrm] Online Townhall Proposal: The State of VRM

[Bill Wendel < >]

Lucas,

I cannot speak for the VRM community overall, but if you are willing
to test your Town Hall software on a VRM Vertical, I would like to
propose REAL ESTATE.  Why?  Here are 10 top of the head responses:

1.  The leading real estate technology conference occurred last week
in NYC, and some participants are debating the best way to host
debriefings to digest all of the content:
http://epilogger.com/events/real-estate-connect-2013
http://epilogger.com/events/real-estate-connect-2013/allstats

2.  In advance press, the event organizer, Brad Inman, challenged the
real estate industry to come up with a "BIG vision" for the future and
the first few paragraphs of this scenario sounded like VRM
functionality:
http://bit.ly/RELatte

3.  But conference kick-off keynote on "Making Home Buying as Easy as
Purchasing a Latte," the expert panel that followed, and the
"LatteVision" Facebook page set up afterwards seem to focus more on
creating a paperless transaction rather than something more ambitious:
http://www.realestateconnect.com/nyc13/agenda
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LatteVision/

4.  In contrast, this list of VRM idea starters could bring about
fundamental changes in the real estate industry by giving homebuyers
and sellers the ability to control their data:
http://bit.ly/MyREdata
http://bit.ly/reVRM-Minifesto

5.  As this slideshow suggests, the Digital Asset Grid + Identity +
VRM could be a GAME CHANGER in real estate:
http://slidesha.re/YK0bS7

6.  If the conversation is left to real estate professionals invested
in the existing business model, game changing transformations are
unlikely to occur anytime soon.  However, if your Town Hall software
can expand the "LatteVision" to include consumers as well as the VRM /
Identity community, the discussion could go beyond the industry's echo
chamber to a really BIG vision.

7.  To get an interactive conversation started, the attached, postcard
sized reVRM-Minifesto Idea Starters could be used in visioning
exercises by local groups. To use your language, they are
"statements/hypotheses that members of the VRM community may want to
debate."

8.  The National Association of Realtors' (NAR) Strategic Planning
Committee has already developed a national campaign to involve 20,000
members in a series of local visioning exercises in 2013 to "Rethink
the Future of Real Estate":
http://reThinkFuture.com

9.  To my knowledge, no effort is being made to involve consumers, or
app developers, but NAR realizes that change is inevitable, and is
warning their members that they cannot bury their heads in the sand:
http://rethinkfuture.com/scenario-planning/ostrich/

10.  Bottomline:  Would using a VRM vertical like real estate help you
test your software and engage the VRM community in the way you'd like?
 If so, how can I help you move your proposal forward.

Bill

-- 
"The next major revolution in real estate will be fee-based services
replacing the blanket commission pricing that has dominated the industry
for so long."
Former Chief Economist, National Association of Realtors

Bill Wendel
The Real Estate Cafe
Serving a menu of money-saving services since 1995
97a Garden St.
Cambridge, MA  02138
617-661-4046 office / cell

 
http://www.realestatecafe.com
http://twitter.com/realestatecafe





On 1/20/13, Lucas Cioffi 
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 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been happily soaking in the discussion on this listserv since
> attending the 2008 VRM workshop in Cambridge.
>
> I'd like to organize a 2-week asynchronous online townhall on the State of
> VRM for two reasons: 1) I want to create a robust knowledge-sharing
> opportunity for the community and 2) I want to test out the software that
> I've built.
>
> I don't like the form that online townhalls take in politics-- they are
> mainly 1-way broadcasts of information.  So the software I'm building
> focuses on a many-to-many sharing of information.  Instead of broadcasting,
> the convener asks questions or opens up hypotheses for feedback/debate.
>  The format is 1) discuss relevant facts and definitions 2) brainstorm 3)
> deliberate and 4) summarize.
>
> This is not to replace the listserv-- just to provide a temporary space for
> more in-depth discussion at scale to move some ideas forward.  Would
> something like this be useful to us or would it be a waste of time?
>
> If this is to succeed, I'll need some help choosing the following:
>
>    - What are some open-ended questions that members of the VRM community
>    may want to discuss?
>    - What are statements/hypotheses that members of the VRM community may
>    want to debate?
>    - Additionally, if there are any words/phrases that have unclear
>    definitions within the community and are important for the community to
>    have a broader consensus emerge on these terms, which words would they
> be?
>
>
> Lucas Cioffi
> Board Member, National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
> CEO, AthenaBridge Inc
> Charlottesville, VA
> 917-528-1831
>

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