The Ninth Annual National Real Estate Cyber Convention and Exposition opens its seven-day run on Sunday, February 21, and is open to the entire real estate community worldwide.

The event is all online. Exposition-only passes are free. Featuring hundreds of booths open 24 hours a day with the latest new ideas, products, and services of interest to todays real estate professionals, expo attendees can win substantial door prizes, hear presentations, view video presentations, get brochures, and talk live with the vendors.

The convention will feature four major keynote addresses plus 50 nationally recognized real estate trainers, authors and industry leaders. Keynote speakers are:

• Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist of the National Association of Realtors®, "The 12 Months Ahead Whats Going to Happen"
• "Mr. Internet," Michael Russer, "Dominate Your Online Competition"
• Randy Eagar, President of the Computer Camp, "10 Ways to Propel Your Business into the Real Estate Recovery"
• Jennifer Allan, author of Sell with Soul, "No More Doom & Gloom Lets Get Ready for the Real Estate Boom!"

The event producer, CyberConventions.com, announced a grand prize drawing of a luxury cruise for two to be held on Saturday, February 27 at 6 p.m. (EDT) the final day of the convention.

Convention information and registration can be found at www.cyberconventions.com/realestate.

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In Part Two of her Trends and Gems from Connect NYC two-part series, Inman News' Bernice Ross reviews four hot, FREE Web tools for real estate agents:

1. StatCounter.com
2. Tumblr.com
3. Meetup.com
4. Foursquare

Read more at Inman News.

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If you can imagine what the future of real estate looks like, you may win some prizes or be a published writer featured in Inman News.

Inman News is exploring what the next decade may hold for real estate professionals in "2020 Re-Envision: The Future of Real Estate Brokerage," an editorial project that features a survey and related articles.

Guest essays will be chosen and published and prizes for survey takers and writers include Amazon gift certificates and tickets to the upcoming Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco.

Visit Inman News for more details and the link to take the survey.

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You can now access FREE archives from the January 28 REALTOR® University Webinar Summit, providing great information on popular topics from tax tips to tech tools:

• Feast or Famine? The 2010 -2011 Economic Forecast
• How to Make 2010 a Great Year with an Effective Business Plan
• Top REALTOR® Tax Write-Offs and Other Things You Should Know
• How to Re-define, Re-invent & Re-fire your Marketing Messages
• Top Ten Money-Making Tech Tools in Real Estate
• There's an App for That!
• How to List More Properties at Higher Commissions in 2010!

Click here to access the archives.

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In this video from Inman News of the 2010 Real Estate Connect conference, Charles Moore, president and CEO of McGuire Real Estate, says he expects to see an "equilibrium where prices are meeting demand" in the housing market this year, with activity up from 2009. It will still be a "hard year," he says, even though he expects 2010 will be an improvement from the "great transition" in 2009. 2011 "will ultimately be the year we celebrate," he adds.

View the original post on Inman News here.

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