I thought that it would be kinda cool to do a little recap of different things that happened on ActiveRain and blog themes that seemed to be running through the week. With so many posts getting made and 10-20 being featured each day A LOT of great posts get missed. I'll try to do a "week in review" for the next couple weeks and then like a blog carnival maybe someone else can do it for a week or two.
The week started out on a pretty scary note, when we had a serious hardware failure on our database server very early Sunday morning. This took the ActiveRain offline for most of Sunday, ruined our weekends, and sent many members into ActiveRain withdrawls. Luckily from then on the rest of the week got better, I couldn't have gotten any worse could it...
The best way to review the week is simply to provide links to many of the posts that made the week what it was.
Blog Carnivals:
This week was the inaugural edition of the Carnival of ActiveRain, a blog carnival to feature top blog posts in various categories by ActiveRain bloggers. Thanks again to Maureen and Dmitry for putting in the effort to get this started.
Best Off Topic/Humor Post - Hosted by Maureen Francis & Dmitry Koublitsky
Best Tips and Tricks/Best ActiveRain Community Submission - Hosted by Maureen and Dmitry + Mary Mcknight
Best Industry News Submission - Hosted by Jay Thompson
Best Lender Submission - Hosted By Brian Brady
Best Real Estate Opinion Submission - Hosted by Colleen Kulikowski
There were also two major offsite blog carnivals to note featuring many fine ActiveRain Bloggers...
Halloween Carnival - Scary Real Estate Stories - Hosted by The Real Estate Tomato (offsite)
Weekly Carnival of Real Estate - Hosted by Jim Duncan (offsite)
Regional Consumer Content:
A little less than two weeks ago we launched a new way to catagorize and display blog posts regionally. This in creating a great resource for consumers to find regional information such as market reports written by our members. We put up several posts about this effort The consumer connection, Categorizing posts for the consumer audience, Reaching Out and Your Towns? Results. There's also been some great regional content written by members this week that is worth highlighting.
Cascade Mountains - By Toby Barnett
Let's go shopping in Miami - By Enrique Garcia & Ines Hegedus-Garcia
"The Boatniks" - Life on the Kitsap Peninsula - By Rich Jacobson
Here's the story on Story, Indiana - Cynthia Sloop
Lake County, Florida (Part 1) - By Jason Price
Worthington Ohio - By Maureen McCabe
Life on a Rock... Part 1 (6 part series) - By Kelly Mitchell
Lexington Oaks in Wesley Chapel - By Jeff and Laura Miller
Reasons why people move to Southern Colorado - By Dena Stevens
Colorado Springs & the Pikes Peak Region… All You Need to Know (and more!) - Derek and Mariana Wagner
ok, there is more but I'm tired of copying and pasting links...
More PR and other good things for ActiveRain
Just to toot our own horn...
Write-up about ActiveRain at realtor.org - By ActiveRain
Inman news article uses ActiveRain as a source (again...) - By Matt Heaton
How we parlayed 2 Sales and 3 listing by using Active Rain as a marketing tool! - By Scott Daniels
New Investor Client Because of ActiveRain - By Donna Harris
Active Rainers and Inman News.. (Thank you Matt) - By Christine Forgione
Thank You Active Rain !!!!!!!!!! - By Jay LaGace
Great educational posts
MIAAOR - REAL ESTATE BLOGGING 101 - By Colleen Kulikowski
Real Estate Blogging 101 - How to Get Started - Defining Your Theme - Joe Bartos
How to Add Pictures in Your Blog - Kristal Kraft
Writing effective blog articles - Barry Hurd
Some other notable posts
As I was going through the featured posts for this week, here are some others that seemed to stick out for one reason or another...
Fear Not Disintermediation; It's Customer Relevance You Should Focus On - By Bill French (stuck out because of how well written out it was for a tech guy :)
Adventures in 1st Time Home Buying: "Do I Need Money to Buy a House?" - By Rich Jacobson (stuck out because if was some of the best presented consumer content I've seen on ActiveRain)
Another Animal Lost to Extinction - By Lisa Dunn (stuck out because it was a very witty and fun post)
Fixing the Traditional Trick-or-Treating Model - By Jonathan Dalton (stuck out because I'm still laughing)
Authentic Living - By Sara Washburn (stuck out because it was a great first blog post, from an ActiveRain co-founders wife)
"No Brokers Fee" or just the old "Bait and Switch" - By Mitchell Hall (stuck out because Craig Newmark stopped by to comment and set things straight)
The Confusion of Predatory Lending........ - By Jeff Belonger (can't remember exactly why it stuck out but I had it in my bookmarks to include)
Even if you don't feel like doing it. Do it anyway! - By Bryant Tutas (stuck out because it inspired me to do something I was putting off)
I'm still working on this loan application - By Brian Brady (stuck out because it was so wity, I wanted to feature it but had just featured two of his other posts a minute earlier)
Don't Volunteer Information to Prospective Buyer - NAR Legal Update - Stephen Scholl (Stuck out because of how asanine legal issues can seem)
Sorry, but A LOT of great blogs and bloggers didn't get mentioned here. There was ONLY 1,240 blog posts made this week and about 110 featured posts to go through, so if you were writting good stuff and didn't get a mention I'll probably catch you next week.
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