Inman News’ Real Estate Connect SFO 2011 is  July 27-29, in San Francisco. The prominent real estate news and research firm also collaborates for a twice-annual free-of-charge pre-conference one-day workshop presented by real estate publisher Property Portal Watch. PPW is part of Australia-based real estate digital marketing firm Classified AdVentures.  We’ll be at both events, bringing back to AIM Group clients by tweet, post and Classified Intelligence Report the important news, insights, and ideas you need to succeed in the real estate advertising industry.

The theme of the Tuesday workshop is The Future of Property Portals. The format is the sharing of successful case studies. Topics and speakers include an overall presentation of the global market including statistics and portal rankings by Classified AdVentures CEO Simon Baker. The rise of vertical search engines and their usefulness in the real estate market is the topic of a discussion by Javier Ortiz, sales manager for Spain’s Mitula. A Move. Inc. executive will share tips about using mobile and social media to drive leads, traffic and revenue to your real estate site.  Here’s the complete agenda, as of this writing.  Here’s the agenda for Real Estate Connect. Follow @ClassifiedTiger on Twitter.