The RESO 2015 Fall Conference: Green Data, Broker Standards Adoption, and more

Over 300 Tweets and 836,914 impressions--those are the social media stats for the RESO 2015 Fall Conference. Though just a handful of people were behind those Tweets, the #RESO15 hashtag offered an incredibly informative look into the conference activities.

We followed the hashtag for the entire three days that the conference took place. Day 1 saw the U.S. Department of Energy talking about how to incorporate energy data in listing information. Day 2 offered a flurry of activity, including talk of how to brokers to adopt Data Dictionary standards. Our co-founder, Marilyn Wilson, even hosted a broker panel discussion entitled, "How RESO Standards enables innovation for the new brokerage models."

To keep you in the loop on conference activities, we followed the hashtag on Twitter and curated the event's best Tweets. Follow along with the conference in the 140-character posts below.

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Day 1

RESO - DoE has 5 Accelerator Pilots @RMLSweb, @IRESLLC, @MREDLLC , @MRIS_REal_News and the NE energy efficiency partnership #BigData #RESO15

RESO - DoE mentions the feeds coming from @HomesDotCom as part of the #realestate industry's energy accelerator initiative #RESO15 #BigData

RESO - DoE focused on RESO Data Dictionary to help define a new kind of Green fields - Green Verification Fields #greeneconomy #BigData #RESO15

RESO - During DoE workshops: Will Energy Score adoption be resisted by #realestate agents as some listings will have low scores? #BigData #RESO15

RESO - @kmalyala suggestion at DoE meeting re: low score homes: Give buyers a game plan to improve now, up future value later #RESO15 #BigData

RESO - 2nd suggestion: Focus on cost savings in energy game plan given to home buyers, stay away from value proposition #RESO15 #BigData

RESO - RESO Crawford: RESO wants business needs brought to the table, driven by volunteers and workgroups #RESO15

RESO - DoE wants to get more energy data into #MLSs; RESO helps as one of the few standard providers in real estate #RESO15

RESO - Energy industry to the real estate industry: How do we identify the right green data to share with the buyer? #RESO15 #Energy

Day 2

Marilyn Wilson - Just about 1/3 of REALTORS are now in MLSs that are Data Dictionary certified. The deadline for Data Dictionary Certification is looming!

Marilyn Wilson - Where are we going? The entire process within the standard - everything from listing input to Consumer display! The holy grail! #RESO2015

Marilyn Wilson - RESO can support standard rules - the rest of us need to work on the non-standard ones! #RESO2015

Marilyn Wilson - Let's define and publish unique IDS for every property in the US, according to @mwurzer . Agent rosters too! #RESO2015

Marilyn Wilson - Brokers are now realizing their pain points can be solved with standardization that RESO can enable! #RESO2015

Marilyn Wilson - Were at a cross-roads - adoption of Data Dictionary is critical for cooperation - if we don't get it brokers will go elsewhere #RESO2015

RESO - #RESO15 Themes + Goals: ED Jeremy Crawford discusses RESO activities with Data Dictionary a top priority #BigData

RESO - Michael Wurzer CEO/Pres Flexmls @flexmls #RESO15: #broker involvement vital now because standards adoption is key to survival of brokers

RESO - #RESO15 Crawford: RESO hasn't focused on marketing outreach to brokers; now that we are, brokers are starting to get it, see RESO's value

RESO - Rebecca Jensen CEO @MREDLLC #RESO15 MLSs are not going away, change, yes, disappear, no #MLS #broker #realestate

RESO - Michael Wurzer CEO/Pres @flexmls: "MLS isn't about technology, it's about cooperation - that won't change" #RESO15

Paul Stusiak - Seems like ‘overlapping market disorder’ is the phrase of the day. Is there a cream for that? #RESO15

RESO - Crawford #RESO15 - Sees more cooperation - not competition - among MLSs than ever.

RESO - #RESO15 Internet of things- Chad Curry Center of REALTOR Technology-Computers sensors the size of a grain of sand; put them in paint?

Marilyn Wilson - @CRTweet How about harvesting light in one room via a solar panel and transfer it to another? Love this stuff! #RESO2015

Krishna Malyala - #RESO2015 @crtlabs @chadcurry @CRTweet "Volltron and BEDES can be used creating smart homes to understand different metric like air quality

RESO - Future of real estate from @CrtLabs: DoE efforts realized - energy data, air quality data, tied to every listing #future #RESO15 @REALTORS

RESO - Future of real estate @CrtLabs: Wouldn't it be great if every listing showed the cell phone strength at the home? #BigData #RESO15 @REALTORS

Kristin Shaffer - @CRTweet: listing data is everywhere -- set yourself apart by providing consumers with data about homes they *haven't* seen before #RESO15

Paul Stusiak - Q: Is it good to standardize data definitions? A: Is world peace good? - Paul Mathew LBNL got a good laugh #RESO15

RESO - Mathew: How do you get new standards adopted when the common response is "Just use my terms"? #RESO15

RESO - Mathew notes that RESO will help to bridge 'two different worlds of data' - mashing up BEDES and RESO #RESO15

RESO - New RESO Board member Tom Flanagan @tflan @AlainPinel #RESO15 pleads for cross-platform standards, ie no Adobe Flash, please

RESO - @marilynwilson Why not a TSA-Pre type approval for data use by brokers that doesn't fit under current policy? #RESO15

RESO - Broker suggest what not to do: Tei from @nexthomere frustrated by getting the same listing in multiple markets, Gartner agrees #RESO15

RESO - @DanTroup What RESO is doing is awesome: It's making things go faster. Our industry has to move faster #RESO15

Marilyn Wilson - Technology companies asking for standardized display and display rules! This is the heart of many problems in our industry. #RESO2015

Marilyn Wilson - Should there be a deadline for Vendor Data Dictionary compliance once the MLS dictionary compliance has expired? #RESO2015

RESO - #RESO15 @kmalyala Data duplication - one of the biggest issues; crazy when same property has 2 different list prices

RESO - #RESO15 Duran @ YoData: Crucial for RESO to move beyond being perceived as being an #MLS org, getting more brokers is crucial #broker

Marilyn Wilson - Kristin Shaffer asking for MLSs to provide TRUE adoption of the Data Dictionary, not replicating and create potential breakdowns #RESO15

Kristin Shaffer - "customer service is an attitude, not a department" loving learning more about? @councilofmls MLS best practices at #RESO15

Marilyn Wilson - Brokers are looking for ways to get richer data to evolve property search to millennials and others #reso15

Marilyn Wilson - Brokers looking for agent data standards, not just property records #reso15

RESO - #RESO15 KW gets most MLS data from aggregators - works with ~20 MLSs

Day 3

RESO - BDX Tim Costello: Argues data & search taxonomy is unique for new homes, new home buyers #RESO15 #HomeBuyers

RESO - BDX Tim Costello: Says challenge is that new homes are only found through non-deterministic search #RESO15 #search

RESO - Big laugh #RESO15: BDX Costello is asked why new home builders don't offer marriage counseling: 'cause it sets up opp to sell 2 homes later

RESO - @jeremy6988 Crawford ends the conference with final #RESO15 hashtag tally: 300+ Tweets and Retweets for 836,914 impressions in 2.5 days