New Localism: Understanding Sponsorships

Hi Cj, You did an exemplary job of laying this all out. Have you ever set up a folder on your desktop for saved links that you want to look at ,at a later time? I did this about a week ago and it is working out very well. I wanted to listen to radio shows you posted here so I copied the links, pasted them to the desktop and dragged them into the folder. Then, when I get time, I will go listen to them and I thank you very much for providing them. I gave up bookmarking posts as often as I now can just copy the link and drag it to the folder and then I have them handy without having to remember why I bookmarked the post. Nice job and congratulations on the feature.

With all your skill in technology, perhaps you have a better way of doing this. I will check back and see if the way I mentioned is good over the longer term.

Cheryl- Again an excellent resource for all of us....so much info, and I had looked at the La Jolla one, only because I had just done a blog on La Jolla and wanted to see where it went.  That's when I saw Roberta and wondered how she had that spot....now I know.  They still have a lot of work to do on getting the right infor into the right spots though....and for new info maybe we need to better tag them or something if they are moderating everything.

Hey Cheryl, sorry to annoy you with my buttons, but I love them.  Buttons call to action.  And, action is what we want in our real estate blogs, right?

Of course, when they do not work correctly, that's annoying ME also!  :-)

Now... I need to figure out which of my posts has a broken link.  Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

Cheryl,

I just love your clean straight forward posts with lots of graphics that help everything make sense to me. Thanks for this post.

I've yet to dive into the new Localism, but have been reading the blogs that the majority seem to be against it in it's present state.  Your example doesn't seem too intrusive... as long as the "Contact Me" button doesn't appear.

Cheryl,

No worries...  :-)

Now that Active Rain is syndicating posts to Localism (in a different format) and the new outside blogs, it does open the subject for discussion.

I guess I do not feel too strongly either way.  On one hand, I wouldn't mind standardized buttons to keep a professional look for Localism as a whole.  On the other hand, personalized buttons are part of my branding and ties directly into my outside blog creating an easy transition from Active Rain/Localism.

Good post, as always and excellent feedback!

Cheryl, great tutorial again! I'll be reviewing your post and the others in depth before jumping out of the Rain. ;-)

I'm still open and looking for info thanks for the links to the information.

Cheryl, what I don't get is...the fact that you can sponser communities in a city but you'll see posts in a community that talk about another community.  If you enter a community, you should only have posts that talk about that community.  If a consumer wants to hear about a particular community and they go to that communities page only to be reading about an entirely different community that doesn't make the page relevant and I would think it would turn the consumer away.  For example, if you have the Community of Miami and you go to the community and are reading posts about Pembroke Pines - ?????? Do we know if this will change or not?

Cheryl,

Going over what you explain here gives me a little better understanding of what the new Localism is all about. I'm still going to wait and see what will evolve in the next several weeks and then decide how to approach it.

Thanks so much for the information. I will definitely check this out. On my outside blog on the New Localism has absolutely no reference to the locality only blogs that should have been posted to members only. It is very frustrating ...especially when I have check others and your samples and they are done correctly.  My locality is not a huge important or big metropolis.

 Because of what our area has to offer and its location to Pittsburg and Cleveland and a huge

multi million dollar project coming to town, I would like  Localism to be able to benifit us.

If  only 10 % of the post have been edited and their on 10,000 post and we are a smaller

locality, my guess would be....we are in for a long wait.  I wonder if buying territories will cahnge the content and get rid iof the personal blogs sooner than what AR could edit the post?

Great post that I bookmarked

Cheryl, Thanks for providing more clarity on this. When I think about Localicm as a "group blog" it makes much more sense. From what I understand of the "sponsorships" they are really nothing more than a blurb about the community that is being sponsored and I understand the blurb has to be approved by the editors. It will not be advertising.

I do use buttons on some of my post. I agree with you that "buttons" shouldn't be on Localism.

Now I still feel we need the ability to decide which of the 3 sites (AR, Localism, Outside blog) our articles get posted to. Being able to chose all 3, 1 or any combination would really help with giving the 3 sites a distinct look. I would also be much more inclined to write hyper-local stuff that's not related to buying and selling real estate if it didn't show up on my AR blog.

Well done Cheryl.

I have been avoing watching the videos, I guess I will have to throw some popcorn in the microwave and actually watch them.

Thanks, Charyl. I listened to most of Brian's interview but ran out of time. Haven't listened to the other one yet. I like th idea of call to action buttons but would not be opposed to a standard button for consistency sake. The buttons I use do not who up the same way in all platforms anyhow.

Jeff

Nice layout really:)

I think localism is going to be tweeked a bit.  I don't personally see a problem with the contact buttons so long as they are not huge and interfer with the content.  I can see both sides to that argument, however.  It will be interesting to see what works.