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Project Blogger Round Up Week 11 June 18-24

Hitting week 11 we've got 5 judging opportunities left. This has been a long and tough competition. I have to congratulate those teams that have held in there. Coach and apprentice alike have put a lot of effort into creating a successful blog. A number of unfortunate difficulties tripped up some teams early-on but now most active participants are hitting a stride quite well. While only one team will win, a lot of people will gain an improved focus and style for their blogging.

These are the posts by the apprentices. For more information on the Coaches please Check out Joel Burslem's Coach's Corner at The Real Estate Connect Conference Blog.

We are considering ditching the audience Voting all together, in favor of perhaps more public voting. I'm listening for suggetions.

To follow the competition see:

The Project Blogger Group.
Project Blogger links. courtesy of Cheryl Johnson
Project Blogger Weekly Rankings
ActiveRain Tags for Project Blogger

Apprentice:Theresa Lussier Coach:Greg Swann, BloodHoundBlog Blogs: TheBrickRanch.com, Loose Screws 6/24 Small home/ Big ideas 6/24 My Favorite Book 6/24 Fave Dry Blogs 6/23 Northern Dayton Post Office Information 6/23 Time for Dayton’s CityFolk Festival 6/21 MCM in Huber Heights; What it is and why I love it. 6/21 Clark State Performing Arts Center announces 07-08 season 6/21 Hazardous Waste Disposal Day in Dayton Ohio 6/21 Time to turn it on and crank it out! 6/21 If you really want to learn, learn from the best 6/19 WSWO Dayton Oldies update 6/19 Cub Foods is pulling out of Huber Heights 6/18 What is the state of the nation’s housing?
Apprentice: Ines HegedusGarcia Coach:Paul Chaney Blogging Systems Group Blogs: Rick & Ines's Blog, Miamism.com 6/24 My 10 favorite Active Rain Bloggers 6/24 Active Rain bash in Orlando 6/23 Summer Activities in South Florida - Rapids Water Park 6/22 Miamism Fridays 6/21 Tax reform for 2nd home owners and commercial properties 6/20 Fisher Island's life line 6/19 Blog marketing help everyone can benefit from 6/18 Hurricane Season - are you ready? 6/18 Hurricane Season - we're not talking football
Apprentice: Jackie Colson Miller Coach:Jim Cronin, The Real Est ate Tomato Blogs: RealEstateSizzle, The Real Estate Sizzle 6/22 Find The Perfect Place to Live 6/22 Change Your AR password,My Site Had an Unwelcome Visitor! 6/20 We Need a “Real” Plan to Cut Property Taxes in Florida 6/20 Tampa Theatre…A Historic Landmark in Downtown Tampa 6/19 Florida Voters are Not Satisfied With The Property Tax Reform 6/19 Buying a House in Tampa…For $500,000 6/18 What Do You Think of the Florida Tax Reform Plan? Vote Here! 6/18 Is it Project Blogger or Project Porker???
Apprentice: Kevin Tomlinson Coach:Ardell DellaLoggia,Searching Seattle Blog Blogs: Miami Beach Real Estate, SouthBeach Real Estate Blog 6/24 Fresh Data: Miami Beach Condo Statistics 6/23 The Very Best Advices From the Project Blogger Coaches 6/23 The Top Ten Blogs Outside of Active Rain 6/23 My Top Ten Favorite Active Rain Bloggers 6/20 BREAKING NEWS: Two more condos bite the dust! 6/18 How Consumers Use Real Estate Blogs
Apprentice: Tisza MajorPosner Coach:Drew Meyers, Zillow Blogs: Route66iving.com, Tisza's Blog 6/24 How To Work The Streets For Fun And Profit... :-) 6/23 How I Gave Up Project Blogger And Learned To Love The Bomb... 6/23 Independence Day Is Party Time Family Style Here In Claremont 6/22 Attention: There Will Be No 100th Post... I Declare This My 101st. 6/20 Are You Getting The Home Of Your Dreams Or Just Buying Trouble? 6/19 99 Blogging Posts On The Wall... 99 Posts Right Here 6/19 I Think Therefore I Blog... Sometimes...
Apprentice:Julie Ferenzi Coach:Jeff Turner Real Estate Shows Blogs: Living In Plainfield Julie's Blog 6/24 My 10 (or so...) Favorite Blogs on Active Rain 6/22 Plainfield Real Estate \| Friday Fun Facts 6/21 Buyer Appreciation Month… 6/20 The Best Time to Buy Real Estate… is now! 6/19 Plainfield Property Taxes \| 2006 Assesments 6/18 Family Fun \| The DuPage Children’s Museum, Naperville, IL
Apprentice:Mary PopeHandy Coach:Frances Flynn Thorsen theRealtyGram Blogs: LiveInLosGatos.com, Silicon Valley Real Estate Commentary 6/24 Tait Museum Happenings 6/23 Feeling Hot? Cool Off in an Off-The-Beaten-Path Place 6/22 Oil in the Belwood Area of Los Gatos 6/21 A Hidden Treasurein the Village Lane Area of Los Gatos 6/20 Free Music In & Near Los Gatos Starting Tomorrow Evening 6/19 What To Do With The Last Big Orchard in Los Gatos? 6/19 Active Rain Featured Posts: How To Write Them 6/18 What Will Happen to the Land near Office Depot? 6/18 Home Stretch of Project Blogger...What I've Learned So Far
Apprentice: Vali Wimberly Coach:Teresa Boardman Blogs: Denverfresh.com, Vali's Blog 6/23 Built Green ~ What? 6/20 Greetings from St. Paulasaurus.(guest post)
Apprentice: Kelly Kilpatrick Coach:Joel Burslem, Future of Real Estate Marketing Blogs: Kelly's Creed, Rancho Santa Margarita Lifestyles 6/18 Comparing Apples to Apples in the Housing Market
Thank you Inman News for co-sponsoring this contest! Please check out their Bloggers Connect Conference where the winners of Project Blogger will be presented.

Posted by Caleb Mardini on 06/26/2007 04:34 PM

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17 Comments on Project Blogger Round Up Week 11 June 18-24

JUN

2007

Caleb - if you did away with the 'audience' voting as you mentioned, who would make up the "more public" voting? Does that mean people outside AR?

I applaud all the apprentices for hanging in there each week - no walk in the park for sure!

It has been a tough competition and those that have hung in there have really worked hard and had to develop thick skin.

Parked...I need this to come up in my email so I can get back to it :)

TLW...ROAR!

JUN

2007

Thanks Caleb, This is such a helpful compilation each week and I really, really appreciate it.

Did some of the apprentices just not post anything again this week? (If so, is there any word from them or their coaches as to what is going on?)

Ann, I don't know if this wold work but if we say...set up blogs (or one blog) which members could comment on...each person commenting would cast a vote. That way we'd have accountability. This is only a thought right now.

Or i could pick a time period to have people email in their votes.

Hey Caleb,

This one of Kev's was missed:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/131259/For-The-Techie-In

Can you get it in there? Thanks.

Hi Caleb,

I think that the email idea might work, but I also think that the blog post with the vote in the comment would be a good idea as well. It would definitely ensure that only one vote could be cast by one person for one blogger. I for one, would be fine with whatever the results were. I have said all along, that I don't care if it is in my favor or not, if I find out that something is unfair I think it needs to be changed. What is unfair to one is unfair to all. And I am confident that everyone involved in Project Blogger feels the same way.

So I think that I would would actually lean more in the direction of the blog comment voting personally. After all blogging is supposed to be about accountability, right? And it might help to increase Active Rain membership as well.

Take care all, help lots of people and have a wonderful day!

Tisza

Even with comments, people can still use fictitious names. It would probably help some. I have been spammed on my own site with people who sign up for my free teleconferences with phony names. It makes me think some people just have too much time on their hands....Too bad

The quality of what's being written and the lessons learned in the process are all good here!!! Congratulations to everyone for hanging in and making lemonade!

Ardell The cuttoff date for this list was the 24th I'll have that one in next weeks list. Thanks!

Caleb:

Why don't we just keep changing the rules from week to week??? Isn't that what you've done anyway. You seem to have someone that you want to win, so why don't you just name them now.

Sorry, that I continue to get the readership vote, no matter how hard you try to manipulate me out of it. I'm over it. Someone from AR hacked into my site and disabled my site meter...any idea who would have my AR password?????

Maybe it's exactly the same person who wants to keep changing the contest from week to week.

The posts keep coming. That's great. They say practice makes perfect! Congrats on the post and to everyone in project blogger.

JUN

2007

Caleb, If you're looking for a more foolproof way to do the vote, why not have AR members log in, vote and have their name somehow stick to the vote so it can be seen that they only voted once?Not sure if it's technically doable,but that might acheive the desired end (and the vote would be not for one week, but the blog as a whole).

Jackie, Did you see the results of the manipulations? We had some weeks with 1,500+ votes and others with around 200.

JUN

2007

You might want to do the judging as a "sticky" post. I had a HARD time finding it.

I am shaking my head because last week, the judge gave me a bad time about the My Blog Log widget and this week, the judge is telling people to add it.

Again, if we were a litter of puppies, we'd be biting people by now due to the contradictory reward and punishment situation.

I was disappointed that this judge did not give us any constructive criticism. If I didn't score, I'd like to know what he thinks I could do better (besides add an email subscription button). I agree with Kevin that the blogs are MUCH more than gadgets and widgets.

Congrats to all who scored this week. You all did a great job.

May I also suggest that the judges for the remaining weeks be folks like us who sell real estate, either residential or commercial?

Thanks for the update.

Mary

Hi All,

Mary, I heartily concur on all counts. And even I am seriously getting a little snappish over contradictory information. I would also have liked a bit more constructive criticism. I would also hope that the remaining judges, even if they do have something to sell, have not sold it to any of us. That makes the results, no matter how valid they may be, compromised in a way that they should not be.

When you find out that there mighthave been an opportunity for something unfair EVEN IF NOTHING UNFAIR OCCURRED it really makes everything suspect. Although I am grateful for what I did receive this week, I do wonder if what was on AR and our participation there was given any weight at all. That is the problem with not having a firm set of criteria to use as measuring sticks - no consistency... hmm, that seems to have been said a time or two before :-). I was going to continue to discourse on this topic, but see that it is getting lengthy, so I think I am going to observe blog etiquette and complete my discourse on my own personal blog :-)

Thanks again Caleb, for all your hard work and for your attention to the earlier problem :-)

Take care all, help lots of people and have a wonderful day!

Tisza

NOV

2008

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