{"id":1543,"date":"2007-06-15T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2007-06-15T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T17:01:48","slug":"what-makes-a-group-blog-work-it-aint-duct-tape-and-baling-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1543\/what-makes-a-group-blog-work-it-aint-duct-tape-and-baling-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a group blog work? It ain&#8217;t duct tape and baling wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Meyers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnivalofrealestate.com\/multi-author-real-estate-blogs-thoughts-from-the-experts\/2007\/06\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Carnival of Real Estate blog<\/a> has a post this morning on what makes multi-author weblogs work. He interviewed me, Dustin Luther of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rain City Guide<\/a> and Jessica Swesey of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.inman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inman News Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like this: &#8220;What are the top three things that lead to a successful multi-author blog?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m tempted to answer talent, talent and talent. There&#8217;s more to it than that, though. BloodhoundBlog is blessed to have very talented writers, but we&#8217;re twice blessed that they&#8217;re such thoughtful, thoroughgoing people. Add to that they are so easy to get along with, and we have a killer line-up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots more where that came from. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnivalofrealestate.com\/multi-author-real-estate-blogs-thoughts-from-the-experts\/2007\/06\/\" target=\"_blank\">Give it a look<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Meyers at the Carnival of Real Estate blog has a post this morning on what makes multi-author weblogs work. He interviewed me, Dustin Luther of Rain City Guide and Jessica Swesey of Inman News Blog. Like this: &#8220;What are the top three things that lead to a successful multi-author blog?&#8221; My answer: I&#8217;m tempted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13558,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13558\/one-lucky-son-of-a-bitch\/","url_meta":{"origin":1543,"position":0},"title":"One Lucky Son of a Bitch","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"November 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What I like so much about BloodhoundBlog, is that as a general rule all points of view are welcome. 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