It’s that way for you folks, too. I can tell by the People’s Choice voting, which is always broad and deep.<\/p>\n
Together as writers, readers and judges, we are building something that matters, something that calls enduring attention to works of the mind that might otherwise just scroll away. The winners are worthy of note, to be sure, but simply to make the short list in this competition is a mark of excellence. If you make it this far, you’re keeping pace with a very fast crowd, an achievement hard to match.<\/p>\n
And with that, to the winners:<\/p>\n
I am in love with this idea, The Odysseus Medal competition. We judged ordinary Carnivals several times, and I was persistently underwhelmed with the overall quality of the entries. We judged hard, so the winners were truly worthy of their honors. But too many of the also-ran entries were just link-bait, entered solely to get […]<\/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":[21,3,6,5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blog-carnivals","7":"category-blogging","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-the-odysseus-medal","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1823,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1823\/last-call-for-odysseus-medal-entries\/","url_meta":{"origin":1863,"position":0},"title":"Last call for Odysseus Medal entries","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The short list is no shorter -- twenty posts so far -- but there's still room for you -- or for someone whose work you think deserves attention. 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Jeff Turner wrote an excellent post on why real estate video is unlikely to supplant virtual tours<\/a>. I agree with his take and then some, and it’s something I’ve been meaning to write more about. But there are other, better uses for video in real estate. I’ve discussed a couple — videotaping your first tour of a home at the listing appointment, or taping the final walkthrough as a gift to the buyers<\/a>. Russell Shaw brings us another, using video as a real estate sales training tool<\/a>. Russ is just getting his sea-legs in the oceans of do-it-yourself video podcasting, but his initial effort won him this week’s People’s Choice Award.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/WinnerTheBlackPearl.jpg\")
Who is not rapt paying attention to the world of mortgage lending? Yesterday at open house, seemingly, it was all anyone wanted to talk about. As the Times<\/i> rundown on Countrywide makes <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"