"Teams, lay down your keyboards," It's time to take a break. It's week 14 and contest blogging is done. I'm sure both coaches and apprentices are thankful ;). We're taking audience votes via email please send in your votes now. Voting closes this Friday. Follow the link for instructions. After the results from Week 3 are completed and the audience votes are verified we'll present the winning team at Bloggers Connect.

14 weeks is an incredibly long period of time for a contest of this sort. Our teams have put in an amazing amount of work. Staying in and a part of this contest is an accomplishment in itself. I've also been continually impressed with the efforts put in by all of our judges. This week's judges were no exception. John Paul and Deborah Micek took a lot of time and put together a video to help wrap up the judging for this contest. Please go over and check out the results at Tribalseduction.com.

Deborah and John Paul Micek are founders of the international business coaching company, RPM Success Group Inc. They are experts and in-demand speakers on online persuasion and New Media Marketing. They work with business owners, marketers, and sales professionals around the world from their offices overlooking the North Shore coastline of Oahu in Hawaii. Coach Deb and J.P. are authors of the underground hit book, "Secrets of Online Persuasion" and creators of the ONLY Web site system that works FOR you: BLOG i360.

	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Audience	Totals
1	Mary Pope-Handy, Frances Flynn Thorsen	100	100	65	100	35	35	100	100	80	50			80	50	213.57	1108.57
2	Jackie Colson-Miller,Jim Cronin	65		100	80		80	50	65	35	35	100	100	35	80	263.12	1088.12
3	Tisza Major-Posner,Drew Meyers		65	80	35	80	65	65	80	100	65	65		50		82.01	832.01
4	Kevin Tomlinson, Ardell DellaLoggia			35		50	100	35	35			35	50	65	65	181.11	651.11
5	Theresa Lussier, Greg Swan		80		65	65				50	80		80	100	35	1.71	556.71
6	Ines Hegedus-Garcia, Paul Cheney	35					50		50			80	65		100	70.05	450.05
7	Kelly Kilpatrick, Joel Burslem		35	50	50	100		80		65							380
8	Julie Ferenzi, Jeff Turner	80	50								100	50	35				315
9	Vali Wimberly,Teresa Boardman	50														3.42	53.42
10	Madison Hildebrand, Dustin Luther																0
10	London Whitted, Pat Kitano																0
10	Michael & Barbara Daley, Joe Ferra & Rudy Bacharty																0

*1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th places are determined each week. For the judging points allotted are 100, 80, 65, 50, and 35 respectively. Audience points are divided from a total of 815 points and represent proportionally the number of points earned by the member through voting.

For judging the penultimate week of the competition I asked one of the original contestants, Pat Kitano of the Transparent Real Estate Blog. He offers sound advice for any blogger looking to improve what they do. Please check out the results at the Transparent Real Estate Blog. Pat Kitano is currently the Managing Principal of Domus Consulting Group, a management consulting firm working with real estate brokerages, title insurance companies and Web 2.0 companies to develop technology marketing strategies. Pat is a regular speaker and commentator on real estate industry and technology issues and am always on the lookout for a "transparency" angle.

The for week 12 are by Niki Scevak of the Homethinking blog. Niki is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Homethinking LLC, a service that helps home owners choose real estate agents based upon what they have done and consumer reviews about the job they did.

Oliver of vFlyer is week 11's Judge. The results are posted on the vFlyer blog in two sections. The overview with the rankings, and a more detailed summary with advice. Oliver Muoto is a co-founder of vFlyer (http://www.vflyer.com). vFlyer allows real estate professionals and other online sellers to create "eye-catching" listings once and then have them distributed to all the leading online marketplaces like Google Base, Trulia, Propsmart, Oodle and Vast. vFlyer enables agents to further distribute and syndicate their listings by allowing them to generate HTML for used on sites like Craigslist or ActiveRain, PDFs that can be emailed or printed, and listing widgets than can be embedded on blogs and social networking sites.

A thorough judging analysis for week 10 was conducted by Marc Davison of 1000Watt Consulting. With 25 years in Advertising, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Marc Davison is bringing a lot to of experience to the Project Blogger competition. Beyond this competition, 1000 Watt consulting brings a lot of that experience to The Real Estate Industry in general , working with brokers, associations, and technology vendors the company works on strategic planning, website analysis and other aspects of marketing and advertising. Marc, put a lot of time into making notes for everyone this week.

I'm very excited say that Judging this week we have Jessica Swesey Managing Editor of Inman News the largest online real estate news service providing information to both consumers and industry professionals. Jessica serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Real Estate Editors, a national trade group of real estate journalists and public relations specialists. She received her bachelor's degree at West Virginia University. Jessica has done fundraising for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training program, which helps fund research and community programs for all types of blood cancers. She also volunteers her time maintaining the team Web site and enjoys training for marathons.

Thank you David Gibbons, Director of Community Relations for Zillow. David put together a terrific critique of the contestant blogs for this week. I had the pleasure of meeting David at the Recent ActiveRain Gathering here in Seattle and he's wonderful to talk to. I love the input he's given us this week. I think all of us can gain a lot of information from looking into his efforts.

Judging for Week 7 was by Keith T. Garner of The Center for Real Estate Technology

Keith Garner is credited with bringing blogging to The NAR. Keith is the Managing Director for the Center for Realtor ¨ Technology. He's been with the center since the beginning in 2001. He's been involved with the creation of the Realtor ¨ Secure Program. Keith worked with the Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS). He is an information source for NAR's leadership, and has written a number of white papers and delivered quite a few presentations.

Judging for Week 6 was by Mike Simonsen of the Altos Research

Mike Simonsen is co-founder and CEO of Altos Research Corp., the premier source of real-time real estate market intelligence. The company helps real estate agents and brokers easily reach their clients through innovative local real estate market analytics, reporting, and web tools. He's been blogging for since 2005 and cites it as the single most effective market channel his company uses.

Judging for Week 5 was by Galen Ward of ShackPrices.com

Galen Ward is the co-founder of ShackPrices.com, a Washington state real estate search website with an innovative map-based search interface. Galen created ShackPrices.com in 2006 with partner Doug Cole with the belief that home buyers need context when they're looking for a home. At ShackPrices you can learn about the surrounding area, the nearby shops, the character of the neighborhood and the style, size and price of a "shack." As a member of the Northwest MLS, ShackPrices lets people search through over 40,000 Washington State homes for sale.

Galen was one of the first co-bloggers to join Rain City Guide and blogs from time to time on the ShackBlog. Galen understands that any criticism he gives other bloggers could easily and accurately be applied to him.

Judging for Week 4 was Caleb Mardini of The ActiveRain Real Estate Network

Judging for Week 3 is undecided. (I'm working on it.)

Judging for Week 2 was Jonathan Washburn of The ActiveRain Real Estate Network

Judging for Week 1 was Matt Heaton of The ActiveRain Real Estate Network.