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Eco All Star August Localism Challenge- Oh My!

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Real Estate Agent with thredUP.com

We are in the middle of judging the Eco All Star August Challenge right now and are in a dilemma!  We have a tie for all places!

They are all so good, local, great pictures....

So, as the judges we decided to get together and figure out a tie breaker.  First, what is the reason why we did this?

The NEW Localism is all about talking WITH the consumer not TO the consumer.  So, how can WE as a group provide approved content to Localism, provide the consumer with amazing LOCAL information....

And get them involved with the site, blog, comments...It's about making connections.  Finding like minded people in the community that want to share information as well?

Well, we decided to look at the criteria again:

  • Must be about your Community-  Yep.
  • Have local pictures to associate- Yep.
  • Tagged Properly-  That too.
  • Grammar and Spelling-  Yes.
  • Interesting, Unique and Different- All were that too.

So what can we do for a Tie Breaker?  Oh my, that's tough.

The last item on the Challenge was actually a Bonus.  It was meant from the beginning to help be a tie breaker...so we are revisiting this one.  This is the only part of the criteria that none of the posts had:

  • Bonus if it is an interview or otherwise and the local business, etc. comments on the post.  Remember, the end goal of Localism is to get the community involved..i.e. YOUR Community

We decided that this would be a fair tie breaker.  So...

We are extending the challenge for Another 3 days, until September 6th!  :) 

janeAnne, Mary and I are challenging all of the entries to go meet to community.  Let them know that you wrote about them and that you are passionate about what you do.  Invite them to hop over and meet your online community VIA Localism!  We will revisit all of the entries and check out the comments to see if your community has hopped in. 

Many of you did amazing and put in several entries, but to be fair we only chose one per person to judge so here is the list of the ones we were looking at.  See you on the 6th!!!!

John Novak
Sylvia Barry
Diane Aurit
Joan Whitebook
Laura Warden
Debra Kukulski
Rich Schiffer
Mark Hall
Kathy Toth
Pete Jalbert
Chris Shouse
Pam Dent
Katerina Gasset
Dena Stevens
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Comments(5)

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CONTACT janeAnne365@gmail.com

YAY-yeah! Go Eco-All-Stars!!!!!!!   and a big GREEN thumbs up!!

Sep 03, 2008 02:27 AM
Stephanie Edwards-Musa
thredUP.com - The Woodlands, TX
knitwit at thred UP

Hi janeAnne,  I'm excited to see how this turns out.  Are we leaving this open to new entries also?

Sep 03, 2008 02:39 AM
Sylvia Barry
Coldwell Banker Previews International (#1 Marin_Sonoma_San Francisco_North_Bay) - San Rafael, CA
Marin and Sonoma Real Estate Leading Expert

Hi Stephanie, JaneAnne and Mary - First, thank you for sepdning time judging.  That's a lto of work!

I noticed this update due to a comment on the original post.

Does this mean only the ones who have entered on and before 08/31 are asked to solicitat local comment for tie breaker or can PROs submit new entries and/or update our entries until September 6th? 

Thanks for clarification.  

Sep 03, 2008 02:41 AM
Stephanie Edwards-Musa
thredUP.com - The Woodlands, TX
knitwit at thred UP

Hi Sylvia,  Our initial reaction was for just the original entries to get in on the tie breaker..and we are still kind of going back and forth...

But, I'm kind of thinking (and I hope Mary and janeAnne hop in) that Eco All Stars is about raising awareness in the community and writing good stuff.  We hope that all members of the group will go out and get the community involved to raise awareness and hop in to comment not just for the challenge but from here on out.

I am not opposed to new entries.  Also, if the entrant feels that we didn't pick the post they wanted, I can change that also. 

 

Sep 03, 2008 03:25 AM
Lisa Hill
Florida Property Experts - Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Beach Real Estate

CRAP! I was still trying to decide on what to blog for this contest, and missed the deadline. I think the entire month of August, every blog post I had planned, ended up being replaced by something else on the day I had planned.

Sep 03, 2008 04:18 PM