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Press Release: ActiveRain Founders To Announce Winners Of Blogging Competition At Inman News’ Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007

By ActiveRain Real Estate Network

Real Estate Technology with ActiveRain

July 30, 2007 08:50 AM

SEATTLE, July 30, 2007 - ActiveRain CEO Matt Heaton and President Jon Washburn, co-founders of ActiveRain, the nation's largest social networking site for real estate professionals, will announce the winners of Project Blogger at Inman News' Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007.

Project Blogger, sponsored by ActiveRain and Inman News, is a four-month contest among 12 teams competing to see who will be the next big real estate blogging talent. The winners will be named Wed., Aug. 1 at 2:00 p.m. at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

In announcing the winners, ActiveRain founders Heaton and Washburn will highlight the successful strategy and tactics used by the winning bloggers to claim top honors in the annual competition.

"Real estate professionals who understand blogging have a competitive advantage in today's marketplace because the overwhelming majority of real estate transactions begin online," said ActiveRain CEO Matt Heaton. "Blogs that demonstrate your local market expertise networking with other professionals online is one of the best ways to grow your business."

Hosted by Inman News, Real Estate Connect is the premier executive gathering for everything related to real estate, technology and digital media. This year's event is expected to attract more than 1,500 agents, brokers, technologists, opinion leaders, entrepreneurs, decision makers, press, analysts and investors from across the country. Real Estate Connect SF '07 also includes four pre-conferences: Internet Marketing Bootcamp, Connect TECH, Broker Internet Session and Bloggers Connect.

The complete program details are available at: http://www.realestateconnect.com/sf07.

About ActiveRain

ActiveRain is the nation's largest social networking site for real estate professionals. More than 30,000 real estate agents, mortgage lenders, appraisers, title company officers and others in the real estate industry participate in the network to exchange ideas and generate leads. For more information or to participate in ActiveRain, visit http://www.activerain.com/.

About Real Estate Connect

Real Estate Connect is the premier real estate, mortgage and technology conference, drawing the industry's most influential decision makers, opinion leaders and technology experts into an active forum for discussion and debate. The event is organized and produced by Inman News the nation's leading independent media news service and licensed content provider for the real estate, mortgage and real estate technology sectors. Inman's clients and partners include 50,000+ Web sites and 250+ U.S. newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, Comcast Spotlight, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS MarketWatch, and many more.

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Jason Sardi

Auto & Home & Life Insurance throughout North Carolina - Charlotte, NC

Your Agent for Life

This should be interesting, there were some incredible writers and coaches involved.

Jul 30, 2007 07:28 AM

Cathy Tishhouse

RE/MAX Showcase Homes - Royal Oak, MI

Royal Oak Real Estate

I am looking forward to the announcement--particularly reading the successful strategy and tactics used by the winning bloggers. I am new to blogging and want to keep growing my skills and identifying my own voice to make valuable contributions to the Real Estate community.

Jul 30, 2007 07:34 AM

Rich Jacobson

Fathom Realty West Sound - Poulsbo, WA

Your Kitsap County WA Real Estate Broker

Will the proceedings be televised?....Maybe someone could video the event and post it using YouTube?

Jul 30, 2007 08:51 AM

Mary Warren

Las Vegas, NV

I'm anxiously awaiting the results...thanks for letting us know! I assume you will post the results here as soon as you know! If not I'll get Kelan The Great to come and get you all!

Jul 30, 2007 09:25 AM

William Collins

ERA Queen City Realty - Scotch Plains, NJ

Property and Asset Management

Matt,

Thanks for the post. This is spectacular. The community should get a lot of mileage from this.

Jul 30, 2007 03:43 PM

TAMMY DEHART

Coldwell Banker Hartung and Noblin - Tallahassee, FL

Realtor, GRI, NAPW

Thanks Matt for starting such an open free site for all of us to vent, inform or learn from. This is the first site I have ever been apart of where one day I am 1 of 3 people in my area to read and write about my industry and 6 months later there are hundreds. It's humbling and yet impressive to see so many people from all over the world come together on one site and get what they need and that I was one of the first in my little area from the beginning. I know ActiveRain has been around well before I found it, but I am watching our industry grow with the technology and this is a perfect example of success. I'm sure that the professionals that take these extra steps, even though unfamiliar, are the most successful and helpful with their clients, because they obviously care enough to take the time to keep up with what's new. Even-though I am not in the first or second slot anymore, I still appreciate the advise I read and take what I can from other professionals experiences. Congratulations and Good Luck on ActiveRains continued success.

Aug 04, 2007 04:59 AM

Dwayne West

Atlanta Real Estate - Canton, GA

Canton Georgia Real Estate

All of this is good new for Active Rain. It will continue to grow in many ways as it gains a string hold in the real estate industry.

Dwayne West-Atlanta Real Estate specialists

Aug 11, 2007 03:16 PM

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