I am SPEECHLESS!  THanks for putting these resources together and this is the second time this week I have been choked up and speechless in the rain!  WOW!  Thanks again!

Great resource - thanks for putting everything together in one spot  

Have you guys ever considered sending out a greeting "packet" with link to something like this to new members.

It might help.

Me

Does this mean I do not have to go back over my Bookmarked Blogs? Well I just Bookmarked this one.

Craig,

We are actually working on a series of training emails for new members. Thanks for the tip.

Yep!  Another one Bookmarked and we thank you for it!

Jonathan,

Very good information here that I am sure will benefit many of our members. Thanks : )

Anything that would help promote A/R is a plus.

Are you planing on adding other member photos, maybe some mini profile or mini backgrounds on some members?

What a great resource - this is what I call beginner's homework!

Outstanding resource!   And nice job with the collage, Blanca! 

Wow! I feel so incredibly honored to be grouped with such a distinguished group of contributors. It really makes me realize how much I have grown to value and appreciate this amazing community!

Excellent resource guys. This is going to be very helpful for new and old members alike. Great job putting this together.

Great Resource for everyone!

This is fabulous.

The link goes to the wrong place for my SEO post.  The correct link is:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/57364/Do-You-SEO

Laurie

It is great because people help each other and everybody wins, great postings and bloggers

Big time kudos on this one. Lots of good stuff all in one place.

This is pretty cool. It will be interesting to see this grow a little and hopefully it's very helpful to the newbies. Gee, even helpful to some of us. Thanks for putting this together...

A great list of resources, that have must have taken awhile...to bad one of the bloggers mentioned is longer here.

What a great resource! It's not only helpful for newbies. I found a few I'd missed, and a few I enjoyed rereading and am now ready to do something about.

More and more reading material - thanks for the time and effort in pulling this all together for us!

This is an awesome compilation of resources!  Folks should be able to find whatever they need from here...

Instant resources I love it. It is Bookmarked for shore.

Thank you !!   This is terrific - everything at my fingertips.

Wow, we certainly blog about blogging a lot! This is a good index that would benefit the new folks greatly.  Hope you can pull it together so they can get a copy.

kk 

Caleb....  maybe add this one in there?? My pockets been picked...... Plargiarism at its best!!!

There were a lot of links added in regards to plagiarism. And there was even a solution added at the bottom of the post.

Man oh man, somebody did a lot of work on this! Beautifully done! Kudos!

This is a great resource for all of us. Thank you AR.

Great set of resources. Thanks for putting this together.

Jeff

Great stuff guys... all the newbie bloggers and some us older members will benefit with this resource....

I for one am bookmarking it.....

=-)

Thanks for the post. This is a great resource. Retrieving posts will be much easier.

Hi, I am one week old on AR today.  This is wonderful.  I was looking all over for how to...   Thank you for putting this together.  Doreen

Is there any way this can be featured in the Newbie Group?

When someone signs up, this blog should be automatically sent to them in an email!!!

along with Bianca originaly "how to" guide.

With chat rooms, often folks who are in the same region will EVENTUALLY get together for a party or lunch or something. I'm waiting to hear about a Silicon Valley Active Rain party. Wouldn't that be fun?

This has been book marked, 4 blogs written I have a long way to go.  Thanks for the resources.

This is a wonderful " mini summary" guide to Active Rain, one to be read by all!

 Blanca, Your are wonderful to put this together. Thanks rain gods for all the work that went into this post.

OK so much reading; so little time!

Margaret,

Actually Colleen Kulikowski helped us to compile this post.  We used Blanco's collage that she created for another post of hers.

Karen,

I added this post to the Newbie Group.  Good idea! Thanks for suggesting it. 

~jon 

That is terrific and thank you Colleen! What an awesome amount of work! You are amazing; all of you for the way you are working together to make Active Rain so successful. 

Jonathan -- Thanks for the mention...   It was my pleasure to help!

Wow, what a great resource.  Thanks for mentioning one of my posts.  I enjoy the community and hope to be able to give back to it by adding value to other readers.  Keep up the great work in the Rain.

Hey AR... Thanks for compiling this..  This a great place to direct newbies to learn the ropes.   Thanks for including me..  Very nicely done.. :-)

Ahhh. Very nice. Lots of great ideas in here.

I would say more but it looks everything has already been said. I prefer not to mimic other people's comments :)

TLW...ROAR!

Hi Craig,

I finally stopped posting and started reading all about the benefits of Active Rain. This resource guide is fantastic. 

I truly believe my blogging will be a whole lot better as a result of finally using all of the tools available.

I can't believe how many great articles here that I NEED to read that I wouldn't have found with out your help! Thank you!

What a great compilation.  Thank you.  This will take days to get thru!!!

Very nicely done. We have been away for a week and we have a lot of catching up to do.

I think I'll be checking back to this one honest. I need to bookmark it...

Awesome!  I've just bookmarked this one so I know I can get back to it again someday.  Thanks!

Good job and thanks for including me.

Great idea, great concept.  Hey, why is my picture not up there? J.K.

happy selling,   Bill

Great resource spot, I'm bookmarking now!

Thanks! 

This is a great idea.  I keep having these types of questions, and I will bookmark this for furture reference. Thanks.

Thank you so much. I really needed alot of this material! This is great.Keep up the good work

One of my posts is a resource?  I am honored.

This post rules...It encompasses everything.

How do we keep it front and center?

TLW...ROAR!

This is wonderful that you will keep updating and ".... refeaturing this post so new members can see it...." And this answers TLW  good question above.

Thank you for adding me. I, too, am honored.

Wow, how did I miss this?  Thank you for the mention. 

Way cool to this Texas boy!

Guess I know what I'll be doing for the next day or two! This'll slow down any progress (used very loosely) that I MAY HAVE been making (in my own mind, right?) towards completing my new, first-ever website! As always though...

Thanks, yet again, for this "ABC's of AR Encyclopedia"! By the way, I've seen this before, but am unsure how to pull it off?!? Anybody out there tell me how to get the AR Logo onto that first-ever website of mine that I'd been working on? No rush now I suppose, since I'll be reading your newly-introduced encyclopedia for some time now. And of course, every post in there (I imagine) will inevitably link somewhere else, so once my ADD kicks in, it could be days!!!

Thanks again guys ... as always, another 5 Rating & another for the Bookmark!

Scott

Great source of information. Thanks for the update. I am always surprised at some of the great stuff I am missing. Summaries lik this are invaluable.

Jeff

What a great idea to keep reposting and refeaturing this. So much good stuff gets "lost" as newer posts replace the older ones.

Wow....that was an excellent post. I love having these. It makes finding blogs so much easier. It also helps to catergorized them. Thank you.

Wow, what a cool collaboration of resources.. thanks!

Thanks for putting that summary together and thank you to all that were featured..   we appreciate all your sharing ... it will help us all do better!!!

Awesome group of resources! All together in a tidy little package...

Excellent idea...I consider this a "master bookmark".  Thanks AR....!

Very helpful!

Thank you very much for the photo and the mention.

Woah ... This is great! Many thanks for the mention, too.

I think this is a wealth of information, but have you noticed there are not a lot of references to the real estate business. If Active Rain is a Real Estate blog, how is it that there is no references to the real estate industry.

Blogging is a non-contact sport that pertains to conversations within an industry or subject. So why is all the reference to "how to blog" receiving such acclaim. Someone running across Active Rain Blogs should receive some information about real estate and the "business of real estate". If this is not true, why does Active Rain Exist. Perhaps it is only made up of those individuals that are looking for their 15 minutes of fame.

Thank you so much for this!  I have bookmarked for repeated use :)

I LOVE all the great links in this post - such an awesome post to keep updated and to have bookmarked to easily keep referring back to.

Ann

I'm going to bookmark this one...then I'm going to go up there and see if one of the links tells me how to retreive my bookmarked posts :)

I'm looking for "how do you change the name of your blog, if anyone has that answer, would appreciate it as my Blog Apprentice wants to do that.  I'm sending him a li