MIAMI—Women are key players in commercial real estate, and groups like Commercial Real Estate Women are right there to support them. CREW-Miami just rolled out a regional education campaign to encourage commercial real estate professionals to tap into new technologies and embrace social media platforms to generate new business opportunities, build professional relationships and gain competitive advantage.

Dubbed Inspiring Innovation, the new campaign coincides with the organization’s 25th anniversary. Maria Juncadella, CREW-Miami’s newly-elected president and principal at Fairchild Partners, is leading the way.

“As technology rapidly changes how business is done, it is important for the commercial real estate industry to be at the forefront of new technologies and social media tools that can lead to more successful transactions and stronger professional relationships,” Juncadella said in a statement. “Through the ‘Inspiring Innovation’ campaign, CREW-Miami will focus its efforts on educating its membership and the broader business community on how to best tap into these new technologies to better grow their business.”

According to an October report from Forrester Research, about half of the devices on corporate networks will be mobile by 2015. With that in mind, CREW-Miami will develop programming to educate commercial real estate professionals on the new technologies, real estate apps and social media tools available in the market—and how these can help them grow their business, as well as creating an industry blog on its website that will give members a platform to discuss real estate topics and new industry developments in real time.

Beyond the new campaign, Juncadella is pointing to commercial real estate trends in Miami for 2012. As she sees it, Miami’s commercial real estate industry is recovering at a steady pace, as the international investor appetite for quality assets continues to drive valuable market transactions, a trend she expects to continue into the New Year.

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