BrokerIPTV: Drew Meyers, Community Manager with Zillow.Com and Drew I know you were present the other day at bread stock kind a talk about social networking and things of the past video and really the market. What is the really the world according to Drew and what you see in from this Zillow world?
Drew Meyers: So I mean at Zillow we are all about transparency and web 2.0 and I really believe the agents should be out there putting their listings basically. I think on a couple of panels I listened in on I talked about the long tale and I really think agents need to be taking advantage of that and putting the listings out there for every one but either whether they want to go through like a apostles or a [inaudible] that syndicates out their listings start to basically like hot pads, Zillow, Trulia. Yahoo is going to beside doing this as the enhancement today announced.
BrokerIPTV: What do you guys do in here as far as a community blog Wiki and the kind of social networking at Zillow?
Drew Meyers: So I think the biggest thing at Zillow that we are doing community wise is Zillow discussions. So we have a pretty big discussion board and we are getting I mean we have roughly the last figure I dont know the latest figure, but the last figure I heard was 50,000 posts and it is going very low we have a pretty vibrant community and I am in there a kind of every day just they can show people are attacking each other what ever keeping people on track by for the most part of we kind of keep our hands out and let the community kind of go on its own and then talking about the real estate market. They are talking about free places to market your website. They are talking about kind of foreclosures and the advantage of cross of words though. I think that is the really cool thing and then I mean obviously in the blogging world I write a bunch on Geek essay [phonetic] blog. So that is really focused totally on real estate technology and so thats kind of where I spend the majority of my time both things over discussions and on Geek essay blog.
BrokerIPTV: Well, fantastic so I guess of there is one take away from Drew what would it be as for agents in the future here?
Drew Meyers: I think be transparent and be very very genuine. I think all the information out there and I think consumers are going to very quickly kind of see through people that are basically just trying to do market themselves, so generally have an interest in anywhere you are contributed in on line
BrokerIPTV: Great well I appreciate all the work you are doing at Zillow Drew, thank you very much for the interview.
Drew Meyers: Thank you.
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