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What I'm Reading - Feb 20th

A collection of posts or links, outside of ActiveRain, from the last week or so that I found interesting:

Scoble on Real Estate Blogging
Seth Godin on Potlach
Future of Real Estate Marketing informs me of a cool new idea: Top Commenter's Roll
Everyone needs a 30 sec TV Show Opening pitch - not sure who told me about this
A brief aside about apologies - The section is about halfway down the page - Thanks Seth Godin for the recommendation
Zillow graphs Household sizes and Sq/ft
Joel Spolsky on Customer Service
Greg Swan on an insanely great idea - REMBEX.com
Real estate agents hate Levitt - Freakonomics
AdAge writes about keeping consumer generated contect in check
Real estate video tours - WellcomeMat.com - like YouTube for real estate?
Links mentioned in Dustin Luthers Blogging Seminar

Posted by Jonathan Washburn on 02/20/2007 08:47 PM

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17 Comments on What I'm Reading - Feb 20th

FEB

2007

Jonathan you and I sound a lot alike (I hope that does not scare you lol) I spend way too much time perusing the blogosphere looking at this kind of stuff. You have several here I have not seen though and I thank you! Like the top commenter idea and post. I love the Trulia idea of two searches joined with an instant graph. Now, the difference between you and I for sure? I would have to figure out how to do it! More homework.

Carole,

I do spend a lot of time perusing the blogosphere! There is a lot of very good information that our ActiveRain community should be aware of out in the blogoshere. Going forward I am going to try and do one of these mini blogs as often as possible.

Whew! Just got back from checking these out! Joel Spolsky's article on his perspective on Customer Service is refreshing, and so true....Remarkable indeed!

So many great ideas and posts...thanks for linking them for us!

Hey! This looks like an "Old School" Blog post. I love it. Thank you for the links!

I, too, travel the web for wisdom.

There are so many fresh thoughts out there and some do not even pertain to real estate, but give you a different perspective of what is on people's minds nowadays. Subscribing to interesting ones can fill up my email, but I keep a folder of what I feel could potentially grow my business.

And with a click, I am off to check some of these out!

---Rhonda

Jonathan..... thanks for sharing these... I haven't spent much time perusing the blogosphere. hhhhmmm Carole, you need to get out some. ;o) Hope all is well. Jonathan, again, thanks for these links.

Jonathan

If you had time to read only one--which would you recommend?

Jonathan,

These are great posts, I never paid much attention to those 30 second elevator pitches before, i have heard them all numerous times, but they just never stood out. I need to make sure mine is as memorable and these if not more, to really hit a homerun when meeting prospective clients. Thanks for posting these

Jonathan, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Scoble, was kind to mention me again and link me to his world read geek blog, only to tease me for not blogging in a month. Slapped my hand big time. A quick jolt back to the blog world. Ouch!!

FEB

2007

Nice Jonathan. Everyone should read Freakonomics- it should be standard reading for every human being, in my opinion. Just great stuff.

I have a book that I would highly recommend. It's not in front of me right now, so I can't remember the author's name, but it's called:

What Clients Love

And I would recommend it to all of the ActiveRainers. (is that a word?)

Karen,

Thanks for the recommendation! I will check the book out. Since AR is so new, I don't think we have official terminology down yet. When talking about ActiveRain Network Members I typically shorten it to just "Rainers", but "ActiveRainers" works too.

Have a great day!

For the first time in months, am reading.... A BOOK. Gasp! And the author is not going to write back if I leave comments in the margin.

I didn't see these.

I was looking at the last one"Real estate video tours " , i've been using Obeo.com

It looks free, is it?

I really appreciate the outside links - saves time for some, and brings good blogs to those like me whojust don't have the time to be everywhere. You should also post about Freakonomics and add it to the AR Book Group. It was an interesting book.

OCT

This post is a nice pick. I loved Scoble on real estate blogging

DEC

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