The Odysseus Medal: Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix Real Estate,
Post Archive,
RSS FeedPosted: Sunday, September 16th, 2007, 12:00 pm MST
Category: Blog Carnivals, Blogging, Marketing, Real Estate, The Odysseus Medal
We had a ton of very strong entries this week. I had to eliminate more than half to get to a short list of twenty nominees. If you didn’t make the cut, don’t despair. You’ll come back even stronger next week. Everything was terrific, a real treat for me going through them. These twenty survivors are must-reading.
Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.
Voting runs through to 12 Noon PDT/MST Monday. I’ll announce the winners of this week’s awards soon thereafter.
Here is this week’s short list of Odysseus Medal nominees:
- Jonathan Miller, Real Estate Employment: Lower Bar = Faster Response To Market Conditions
- Brian Brady, The Difference Between Right and Wrong
- Steve Leung, What to Do If Your Offer Isn’t Accepted
- Dan Melson, Should Lenders Be Permitted to Sell Real Estate?
- Michael Wurzer, Is Data Free? Or Is There No Free Lunch?
- Joel Burslem, Storms Ahead for Real Estate Sites
- Howard Arnoff, Was Alan Greenspan to blame for the mortgage mess
- Shailesh Ghimire, Cash Out Re-finances, Bankruptcy Reform as Possible Causes of Subprime Meltdown
- Jeff Brown, The Laws of the Physics of Investing — Attention Real Estate Investors
- Dr. Housing Bubble, Guest Post: Emergency Response Team: Tools to Prepare Yourself for Buying in the Future
- Daniel Rothamel, Does the Real Estate Industry Deserve a Bail-Out?
- Jonathan Dalton, Will a Slow Market Change the Real Estate Industry? Not as Much as You Think
- Joshua Dorkin, How Failures from the Maestro, Alan Greenspan, Lead to the Mortgage Crisis
- Dustin Luther, Rules for Rain City Guide Contributors
- Dan Green, Why Mortgage Rates Have Dropped Over The Last 28 Days
- Jay Thompson, A Day of Mixed Emotions
- Jonathan Miller, Reserve Judgement: The Econometric Disconnect And The Housing Market Reality
- Brian Brady, How to be a Successful Originator For About $25,000
- Kris Berg, Dogs Playing Poker – What do you do with great property photos?
- Jeff Kempe, Attorneys, Condescension, Immaculate Perception and the NAR
Deadline for next week’s competition is Sunday at 12 Noon PDT/MST. You can nominate your own weblog entry or any post you admire here or, more easily, here.
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