I'd be lying if I didn't say I like it when I get recognition for my writing, only if it's good that is. And I believe all of us like recognition. So how would you feel if you wrote a Post and it got Featured not once, but several times :) How would you feel if your Peers actually decided the Cream of the Crop. Quality writing stands out, Regurgitated Writing gets old fast. The Big Fish in the small pond usually gets eaten by the Shark sooner or later .
A Featured Post to many is a Coveted Prize
by it's very nature it is supposed to be the best of the lot. But is it really?
Think about this....when you write for this forum, or any other forum, hopefully you put some effort into your work. Hopefully you have not just read someone else's stuff and then re-written it.
There is, or should be, real pride in good work. It doesn't matter the job as long as we can say we did our best. Whether we sell houses, flip hamburgers, make loans, or crawl under houses to see what might lurk under there.....we just need to do our best.
And the Company doesn't matter either as long as they take care of their employees. Remember back to jobs where the "Boss" favored a couple people over others, how did you feel? Did it affect your bottom line-your pay?
Now move to today's technology.....think about your Blog.Recently there was a big hulla-ba-loo over one Forum that didn't appear to have their members best interests at heart. A lot of work was put in by people that trusted "the boss", only to get shafted.
Think about another Forum where rumors were flying about "who" and "why" their blogs had issues......and then went offline. Do we really know what goes on behind the scenes of any of these forums? Whose interests are they watching out for?
And then we come to your writing, your desire to get your name out there for business purposes, and to also be "found".In any large Forum it's not easy for sure. And hopefully the Cream of the Crop does indeed rise to the top. With Blogging or any other Job we'd be lying if we said we didn't care if we got recognition for good work.
The Prize that some think of as the measure of quality, on this Forum, is the Featured Post. You decide if these are really the Cream of the Crop.
Have you written anything on other Forums? How well was it received? Did you find that being a big fish in a stocked Pond meant very little in someone else's Pond? When all is said and done, we all know who has risen to the top and why.......
By: Kathy McGraw-Broker/Realtor for CELLing Realty in Riverside County CA
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