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Carnival of Content: Winners of Round One

Wow! There was a flurry of posting activity as the competition heated up and contestants got there articles in just before the deadline last Friday at Midnite (PST).

Before we announce the 1st Round Winners, allow me to briefly recap:

Mission Statement: The ActiveRain "Carnival of Content" is a twice monthly contest to challenge, encourage and foster better and improved quality writing from among our membership.

This contest will accomplish two goals:

provide greater quality articles of enhanced value for Localism/Consumers
provide excellent examples of what constitutes good blog writing for our members

This week's contest was specifically for Real Estate Agents/Brokers. The 2nd Round (July 23rd thru July 27th) will be for Mortgage Lenders/Officers. Then the 3rd Round is for Staging Professionals. It is our intention to offer contests that will encourage/challenge improved writing from all the various categories of ActiveRain membership.

The contestants for our 1st Round, Real Estate Agents/Brokers, had to write an article on the topic/subject "Best Advice/Tips for Buyers or Sellers in a Slowing Market."

You can read the rest of the contest rules and criteria by going here.

The Prizes

No contest is complete without prizes.

All winning articles will get 'Featured' on the Blog Dashboard.
Points - 1000 points will be awarded for 1st Place; 750 points for 2nd Place; and 500 points for 3rd Place.
The winning articles will also get published on SoundBiteBlog.com.
There is a good chance the winning articles will make it into the "Week In Review" for Monday the 16th!

The Judges

The distinguished panel judges for Round One were selected from among our ranks. They included Carole Cohen, Leigh Brown, Donna Harris, Jay & Monika McGillicuddy, Linda Davis, Chris Elizabeth Griffith, Tim Maitski, and Gena Riede.

And Now!.... Without any further ado, here are the Winners of The Carnival of Content Round One!

First Place and Winner of 1000 points: Lenn Harley

Second Place and Winner of 750 points: Thesa Chambers

Third Place and Winner of 500 points: Laura Warden

We had many very excellent articles that were submitted, making the selection of our winners all that more difficult. Thanks for everyone who entered. Here are some honorable mentions:

Rick & Ines; Lexa Montierth; Suzanne Sands; John Evarts; Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman; Bryant Tutas; Teri Eckholm; and William Johnson.

Posted by Rich Jacobson Your Kitsap County WA Real Estate Agent on 07/16/2007 05:49 AM

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50 Comments on Carnival of Content: Winners of Round One

JUL

2007

Thanks for not making us wait until tomorrow night :) You judges picked some good ones! Thanks for the Honorable Mention!

Lexa Montierth

Lexa - Thanks so much for submitting your article. Keep up the excellent work. Consumers will find you and love your writing!

It was interesting to receive an alert on my post congratulating me for 2nd place... thanks - I did not expect this - wow

Whoa, I need to step back and take that all in. Congrats to the above mentioned, as I browse the selection.....it's very impressive indeed. Game on!

Thanks for the honorable mention and the great job you did in organizing this. Many Thanks again,

Sincerely,
William Johnson

This was a good contest and all the entries were excellent.. Congratulations to the winners..

Nice job Rich,

Congratulation Lenn on a fine job.

All the contributors were winners as they were all great posts. But, there can only be one winner and I enjoyed reading each and every entry, Congratulations to all

Rich, you had some hearty competition with this contest. Anyone new to the network can read and learn from the posts and bloggers that were contestants.

Wonderful contest, Rich ! Congratulations Lenn, Thesa and Laura ~ good work !! Kudos to the honourable mentions and the esteemed judges too.

Congratulations Lenn, Thesa and Laura, great job!

Rich,

Great contest! Congratulations to Lenn, Thesa & Laura! Also, thanks for the honorable mention! :)

congratulations to the winners. I read Lenn's and Thesa's fantastic. Off to read Laura.

Congratulations to all! Everyone was a winner. And thanks Rich for putting it together. The morgage people will have a tough act to follow.

Congrats to all the winners and good luck in the next round to all.

I read all the articles and they were wonderful. Excellent choices. Thanks for appreciating content of article reanther than quantity of articles.

Thanks to the judges and a special THANKS to Rich for organizing this very important and worthwhile Contest. Good content help ActiveRain, Localism, our own web sites and all our images on line and in our community of - Geez - I can hardly believe it, 38,378 members.

Active Rain ROCKS.

A Very Grateful

Lenn

Congrats to Lenn, Thesa and Laura...Tough job to judge such a good group of bloggers in the competition...Thanks for the Honorable Mention :)

Congratulations to the winners and everyone who submitted. It was enjoyable reading them all but very very hard making a decision!

Rich - this was a great contest, and what great posts to have chosen as the winning posts. Congrats to the winners as well as to the honorable mentions!

Ann

CONGRAT'S Lenn Harley, Thesa Chambers and Laura Warden!!!

Congratulations to the winners and those that received honorable mention. It is contests like this that bring out the best in people. Rich, thanks for organizing a great contest.

Congratulations to all the winners and the honorable mentions. I think this contest is one of the best on AR. It encourage great content and is instructive. Thanks to all the judges for taking the time to read all that great content. Could you provide links to the honorable mentions? Thanks

Good job with the carnival Rich. AND a big congrats to Lenn, Thesa and Laura. All three were certainly deserving. Lenn's post was outsatnding!!!!!!

The winners make it easy to understand how they were picked. It was very enjoyable reading.

Great job everyone! The entries were excellent with many informative posts for consumers!

Congrats to everyone. It was a very hard decision and all the point totals were so close.

Morning Rich! First congratulations to all the winners and thank you Rich for putting it all together. Now I have another bunch of great posts to catch up on.

Congrats to the Champs!

Great contest...

I look forward to reading those that I missed!

Congratulations to ALL the winners...and to those with honorable mention! There were some GREAT articles it must have been very hard to judge.

A big YEAH!

Yeah to the Judges!

Yeah to the "Honorable Mentions",

Yeah to the Winners,

and Yeah to Rich for putting this on!

It was definitely hard to select a winner, thanks for the very thoughtful posts that were written and submitted! Lenn, you're an example to us all.

Congratulations to the winners! And really to everyone who put themselves out there and submitted a post for the Carnival. And thank you for asking me to judge it was a pleasure to be able to read such good quality submissions! Now I look forward to the next 'leg' of the Carnival.

CONGRATS to the winners! Thanks Rich for hosting this very BIG job. You picked some great posts.

Congratulations winners! You helped to keep the Rain as awesome as it is and even better with the wonderful blogs you create!

Sharon

Kudos to Rich and the Judges...and of course the writers. AMAZING!! EXCELLENT!!! AWESOME!!! And you know I don't CAP it if I don't MEAN it. Fabulous from start to finish!

I liked Thesa's the best, mainly because it played out of local area. But also because it answered "my beef". You can give advices without mentioning "slow market". Sometimes I'm too literal. Most times I'm just looking for the low point. Occupational hazard. I'm always looking for a home's defects while the buyer looks at strengths. My auto-pilot goes to "what's wrong with this".

The end result of Rich's idea? What's wrong with it? NOTHING!! SIMPLY MAHVELOUS!!!

Looks like they have set the bar for those of us that are going to enter the mortgage carnival. Going to have to sharpen up the old brain cells to enter a worthy entry.

Congrats to those that entered and to the winners; you all had excellent entries.

Congradulations to all the winners, runners up and those who entered the contest, you are wonderful and articulate.

WooHoo! Personally, I would like to thank RICH...who inspired me to write ....localism style. WooHoo to all the winners...and who else would win but MS> HARDCORE Real Estate....the one and only LENN! I would also like to congratulate eveyone else who participated ....we all did a good job....WooHoo!

Rich, thanks for putting this together. It was a lot of fun! Congrats to the winners.

Jason, nothing like a good round of golf top clear the cobwebs out.

Congrats to all ... I especially would like to thank you Rich...

This contest is exactly what the rain doctor ordered :)

TLW...ROAR!

Excellent choices. These are outstanding - congratulations to everyone who participated, but especially to Lenn, Thesa, and Laura. There was some stiff competition.

Jeff

Rich, those were excellent Posts especially Lenn Harley's Post, and talk about an All Star panel of judges!!!

OK now how much do we have to bribe you with to get a peak at what the topic/subject is for the Mortgage Geeks :)

Congratulations to all! There were some great entries here!

Thank you Rich for this opportunity and thank you to all that sent your congratulations... and Ardell a special thanks to you.... I am still an armature :p

Rich,

I've come back to this post three times today and re-read the posts and comments. Quality, Quality, Quality.

Rich - You and the judges are awesome for devoting so much of your valuable time to this contest. I really enjoyed reading the posts. Again....thanks!

JUL

2007

Congratulations to all the winners!! Lenn, that was an excellent article. A lot of detail and research.

Judges, you did a great job! It must have been difficult going through all the articles. Thank You for taking the time to review all the submissions.

Rich - great Contest! You really had us working for this one. 1000 points is a great prize and Lenn definitely deserves it.

JUL

2007

Good job to Lynn. I really enjoy her blogs and I believe she deserved this one.

JUL

2007

Great, great, great, great articles!!! Congratulations to all winners and all bloggers submitting their posts for this wonderful contest!

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