Boundaries

A morning rant:

Probably not my favorite moment of RE BarCamp Denver (#rebcden) but it certainly was the most memorable. Thirty minutes into a presentation, a real estate agent took a call during a presentation and then continued on with the call for half a minute at an audibly unacceptable level. The speaker bravely avoided acknowledgment of her diva act. Finally, a gentleman sitting close by, asked her “to have a little respect for the speaker” and to stop the call. She packed up her shit, walked to the aisle, spun around and muttered “Asshole”. When she left, a half dozen people thanked him.

It led me to think about the differences in boundaries that people have. She obviously has no boundaries, she’s just a rude piece of shit. His boundaries gave him the green light to confront her, as the rest of us, stunned this imbecile had the nerve to conduct a call in the middle of a presentation, sat silent. Our boundaries hadn’t been broached, they’d been dulled by the shocking nature of what was developing.

Boundaries are a nurture thing. They are shaped by friends & family growing up. How do they get checked when we’re all grown up? By society? Peers? When & how did this woman come to believe this behavior was acceptable?

Finally, why was she at RE BarCamp Denver?

Caveat Emptor: From This Day Forward

I need a place to express myself in bits longer than 140 characters. To vent when something pisses me off or to cheer when I am inspired.

Going forward, future entries may insult or inflame your sense of sensibility. My posts will most definitely contain profanity. If you find profanity offensive but are open to the notion that it can be useful, watch this movie FUCK. If it’s still offensive, move on. The law of CMD + W exists here.

Consider this a pg. 13 classified ad announcement to the world, my catharsis is here. This is my place to be a little more authentic & a little more vulnerable.

RE BarCamp SF trading cards anyone?

Back at RE BarCamp SF 2008, RealSeekr & RealEstateZebra teamed up and produced some fun RE.net trading cards (see below). These cards are brilliant. Growing up collecting baseball cards stirs the compulsive desire to complete my collection.

So, if you’re going to REBlogWorld 2009: bring ‘em if you got ‘em!

10 Influential Monkeys You Should Follow on Twitter

Highlighting social monkeys on Twitter is a great way to make friends and more importantly get links & web traffic, so here are 10 influential monkeys to follow on Twitter. The foundation for this recommendation; all 10 monkeys have 1000+ followers. Surely any monkey with 1000 followers must be influential. When these monkeys tweet peel a banana, followers go ape shit. Monkey see, monkey do. Three cheers to influence!

If you are a monkey and aren’t on this list yet, don’t despair. Goto wefollow.com, type in “monkey”, and start clicking the button. Other monkeys will follow you back and soon you will have 1000 followers and be eligible for inclusion in the followup to this post, “I’m a Monkey Too”. It’s really that easy. Again, it’s that easy.

1. Monkey_Cat
   
2. cheekee_monkee
3. TradingMonkey
4. mmamonkey
5. azzmonkey
6. thetweetmonkey
7. Gear_Monkey
8. WealthMonkey
9. chiefmonkey
10. Wise_Monkey

One school of thought making it’s way around the inter-web is that follower counts are the foundation for determining influence. Does this account influence you to do anything?

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