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July 1st, 2010

Onboard Client Speakers at Inman SF

By Jackie Berg, Marketing Specialist

We are just a few weeks away from Inman Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2010 and are looking forward to the discussions that will bring together 2000 real estate and technology professionals. Here are just a few clients we will hear from next month:

  • Curt Beardsley, VP of Product Marketing, Realtor.com
  • Sherry Chris, President & CEO, Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate LLC
  • Wendy Forsythe, VP of Network Services, Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate
  • Matt Goyer, Director of Online Marketing, Redfin
  • Glenn Kelman, CEO & President, Redfin
  • David Marine, Director, Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC
  • Errol Samuelson, President, Realtor.com

Click here to read bios of all of the speakers for this year’s conference.

We have a whole crew headed over to San Fran (dangerous, I know…) who are looking forward to these discussions. Onboard Informatics is yet again a proud sponsor of Inman Connect. If you are attending, be sure to stop by Booth #100 to get a sneak peak of what we’ve been working on over the summer.

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June 24th, 2010

Onboard Clients Honored for Technology Innovation

By Michael Groysman, Marketing Intern

iia2010We aren’t the only ones who believe our clients are meeting today’s consumer in the places and ways they expect to search for homes. Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Realtor.com, Redfin, and ZipRealty were just named as finalists in the 2010 Inman News Innovator Awards in the ‘New Technology’ category.

Onboard Informatics would like to congratulate each of our clients for bringing such forward thinking ideas into our industry and for blazing trails in the midst of an ever changing market.

Other applications nominated for the ‘New Technology’ category are DocuSign ESIGNControl, NearBuy Real Estate Search, Roost Social Real Estate Platform (Facebook), Trulia, Walk Score, and Zillow’s iPad app.

Nearly every contender for most innovative new technology is in the mobile arena. In 2009′s Most Innovative New Technology category, there was only one mobile nominee.

The Inman Innovator Awards will also honor innovations in brokerages and franchises, web services, blogs, and media sites. Onboard will once again be present at the event rooting everyone on. Swing by booth #100 and say hello if you are coming to the show.

If you haven’t seen our clients’ applications, stop over to their sites to get a look before the show:

Best of luck to the nominees!

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August 5th, 2009

Onboard client speakers at Inman

By Jackie Berg, Marketing Specialist

We are proud to have a number of our most prestigious clients and partners speaking throughout the event. Here are just a few Onboard clients speaking at Inman this week:

  • Steven Berkowitz, CEO and Director, Move and Realtor.com
  • Nick Bilton, Designer, User Interface Specialist, Journalist, Hardware hacker, Researcher, New York Times
  • Eric Bryn, VP of Strategic Development, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World
  • Louis Cammarosano, General Manager, HomeGain
  • Sherry Chris, President & CEO, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC
  • Laura Cochran, VP of Marketing & Sales, MRIS
  • Margaret Kelly, CEO, RE/MAX International
  • Glenn Kelman, CEO & President, Redfin
  • Jeremy Stoppelman, Co-founder and CEO, Yelp Inc.

If you’re not at Inman, you can watch a live stream of the Bloggers Connect program here.

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July 23rd, 2008

RE Bar Camp Report

By Robert Hahn - VP, Marketing

When I first heard about RE Bar Camp, I thought, “Now, this is an event I have to attend.”

The actual event itself did not disappoint.  The gathering of some 100+ people who are on the cutting edge of real estate, of mortgage, of technology in this industry, was really a refreshing breath of air for me personally.  And as a representative of Onboard Informatics, I was happy to see just what the sorts of challenges and needs people were facing out there.  Some of those issues, we may even have a solution for.  Not sure which ones yet, but it was a great learning experience.

It was chaotic, to be sure.  The hall itself was noisy, to be certain.  Perhaps in the future, we’ll find better spaces for the format that RE Bar Camp takes.  Basically, you get a group of people together, then people just post what they want to talk about or present.  Then other people just attend these ad hoc sessions.

One of the best sessions was about usage of Web 2.0 technology in the mortgage business.  Talk about a commodity business where people are nonetheless adding value in all sorts of different ways, and leveraging technology to do it.  I mean, money is the ultimate commodity, right?  Well, not to these guys.  I came away learning quite a bit about how that industry works, what some of the challenges are, and what some of the solutions people have crafted are (Twitter 4TW).

One of the most amazing facts I learned was from an agent, Stacey Harmon from Orange County, CA.  She enters her listings into a total of ten different systems and websites, ranging from her MLS to Zillow to Trulia to her corporate site to her blog to… well, a bunch she couldn’t even think of.  This is one of those things that I look at and go… “We are living in the 21st century… right?”  This is something that I think the industry needs to solve, and quickly, if we are ever to become truly professionalized.  Transporting data from one computer system to another is a challenge, but it isn’t an impossibility in this day and age.  Seeing as how we have an expertise in data, this is something we may have to think about some.

I’m looking forward to the actual Inman conference as well, but this was a fantastic event in and of itself.  Highly recommended, if you’re open to learning and discussion, and can handle the chaos.

-rsh

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