I have to admit sometimes when I read across the blog landscape that is Active Rain I am amazed about what I read.
Newbies or new consumers to this social media must wonder, is this real estate related?
Much of the time, NO, but most likely the author is a real estate industry professional. What you are seeing is that
YOU Are The New 21st Century Reporter.
Print newspaper circulation is declining not that it is not a good medium but more it is being read "online" by younger generations instead.
But the latest 21st Century reporters have expanded. They are
YOU, the blogger.
With pad in hand for note taking, a camera or video, they take those Active Rain eyes and bring it back home and post.
From the sublime to the ridiculous of course it might turn out as far as content. But up it goes on the Internet to stick. Great discussions on how to lose your real estate license, is there a stigma with foreclosures anymore, passionate feeling articles on losing a husband to Alzheimer's, the latest businesses opening in town, to this weekend's arts and crafts or balloon festivals, to can you identify this bug in the backyard or an interesting photo.
It is all their for your digestion, entertainment, thought, pondering, or inevitably incorporating into your life, the life of your family, the life of your business. Mainly good stuff. Occasional rants and disagreements but overall worthy articles (posts), each and every one of them.
Now that you have been handed your blogging credentials particularly here on Active Rain, someone may ask which school of journalism you got your training from? We all learn from each other in THIS school of blogging. It is the school of life. Sure, putting sentence structure together grammatically correct, not being wordy, and spell checking are all integral to a good article. But a lot of it is practice makes perfect.
I look forward to more and more of you who are READING in the blog world turning that around and WRITING with passion, flavor, and your local expertise.
You bring the part of the world THAT ONLY YOU CAN to the rest of us. I wonder if Horace Greeley one of the early publishers of newspapers in New York in the early 1800's could have ever imagined how far we would come?
Let me know if you know of a new job for Clark Kent. We'll set him up a Facebook page and you can be his new friend or you can follow him on Twitter flying about the city. Of course now he has more time for Lois. I hear she is taking up Staging after seeing that Clark's bachelor pad was a mess. He didn't get home often with his "other" job.
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