The image to the left is a technologically enhanced scan of the human brain.  You may notice the different "pretty" colors.  Please note the following:

1) The blue areas:  These are the areas of normal brain activity caused by reading the user-friendly and informative articles written by such experts as Teresa Boardman and Broker Bryant.  

2) The yellow areas:  These are areas of gray matter mush created by reading article after article of MLS statistics posted to Active Rain without so much as a pretty picture to look at.  

This rather severe and problematic diagnosis is knows as Informationus Overloaditis and has only one cure:  Quality Content.

If you want to get featured on Active Rain...If you want to make a lasting impression here....Please, I beg of you, consider the following points:

Blogging is a social medium:  The idea is, at it's grass roots,  to develop relationships with other people.  In a perfect world, you would develop a readership who would love you, cherish your opinions, and seek out your advice.  This is how we get clients from blogging.  In order to develop said readership, there are a couple of things that you must do:

1) Win their minds:  For this purpose, your statistics are perfect.  Everybody loves a good brain workout.  Trying to wrap my mind around what all of those numbers mean and how it applies to my business is great fun....for about 5 minutes. And then I have to.....

2) Win their hearts:  Because, at the end of the day, nobody gives a crap about your stats unless they value you as a person.   You must, therefore, offer something of yourself in your posting.  Sure, it took you thirty minutes to dig up those stats and post them here, but honestly.  I could train a chimpanzee to do that in a few weeks.  Trust me.  I just trained them to write this post (I'm in the Bahamas with the Tropicana Bikini team as we speak).  But I digress....

If you want people to value your writing and return time after time to your blog, you have to offer something interesting.  If not, you run the risk of being viewed as an information depository rather than a human being.  And I, while trying to read your posts, end up like the poor fellow above.  Some commentary to go along with those stats would do nicely. Tell us about yourself.  Play nicely with the other people who blog here.  If you can't do that, do me a favor and at least copy and paste the following picture so I'll have something to give me that warm and tingly feeling I'm looking for.  Thanks very kindly.

For Clarification of what I'm talking about, visit this Real Estate Tomato Article

*Update:  After further consideration, I'd like to ammend my original train of thought on this post.  Stats are not evil.  The more I think about it, the more I realize that I sometimes want to read statistical based posts.  They give me fodder for blogging.  However, I think I like them better when they're in table format.   And, I still think they should have pretty pictures.  But, it's just my opinion.