{"id":2655,"date":"2008-02-25T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2008-02-25T13:16:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:16:55","slug":"the-odysseus-medal-the-art-of-rhetoric-and-the-rhetoric-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2655\/the-odysseus-medal-the-art-of-rhetoric-and-the-rhetoric-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odysseus Medal: The art of rhetoric &#8212; and the rhetoric of art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/WinnerTheOdysseusMedal.jpg\" align=\"right\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2651\" target=\"_blank\">As I said yesterday<\/a>, I had already picked this week&#8217;s Odysseus Medal winner, so I didn&#8217;t include his posts among the Short List of nominees. Instead, I&#8217;ll present them here. The Odysseus Medal this week goes to Mike Farmer for his <i>tour de force<\/i> series of posts on Web 2.0 and the real estate practitioner. Mike had an astounding <i>thirteen<\/i> posts on the Long List last week, but the eight posts (!) cited here are a cut above everything I saw last week. These are Mike&#8217;s essays, in chronological order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/blog\/2008\/2\/18\/real-estate-web-20-community-part-one.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real Estate Web 2.0 Community part&#160;one<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/blog\/2008\/2\/19\/real-estate-web-20-communitygroups.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real Estate web 2.0 &#8211;&#160;community\/groups<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/blog\/2008\/2\/19\/real-estate-web-20-i-just-want-to-sell-real-estate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real Estate Web 2.0 &#8212; I just want to sell real&#160;estate<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/blog\/2008\/2\/19\/real-estate-web-20-a-personal-network.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real estate Web 2.0 &#8212; A Personal&#160;Network<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/blog\/2008\/2\/20\/real-estate-web-20-google-is-watching.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real Estate Web 2.0 &#8212; Google Is&#160;Watching<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/blog\/2008\/2\/21\/real-estate-web-20-network-relationships.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real Estate web 2.0 &#8211; Network&#160;Relationships<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/blog\/2008\/2\/22\/real-estate-web-20-free-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real estate Web 2.0 &#8212; Free&#160;Speech<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/blog\/2008\/2\/23\/real-estate-web-20-brief-conclusion-whew.html\" target=\"_blank\">Real Estate web 2.0 &#8212; Brief Conclusion&#160;(whew)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t read them &#8212; or didn&#8217;t read them all &#8212; making the time will repay your effort. Cathy and I were talking about thanking authors for the gifts they bear &#8212; not as fawning fan mail but as a simple expression of gratitude. I&#8217;ll thank Mike now for this compendium, and I hope you will take a second to do the same by email or in a comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his weblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/WinnerTheBlackPearl.jpg\" align=\"right\"\/>The Black Pearl Award this week goes to Set Godin for <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2008\/02\/advice-for-real.html\" target=\"_blank\">Advice for real estate agents (quit now!)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The second asset to build is permission. It turns out (according to the NAR) that 91% of all Realtors never contact the buyer or the seller of a home after the closing. Not once. Wow. Someone just spent a million dollars with you and you don&#8217;t bother to call or write?<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity during the current pause (and yes, it&#8217;s a pause) is to find, one by one, the people who would benefit from hearing from you and then <i>earn<\/i> the right to talk to them. Earn the right to send them a newsletter or a regular update or a subscription to your blog. NOT to talk about what matters to you, but to give them information (real information, not just data) that matters to <i>them<\/i>. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2655\/the-odysseus-medal-the-art-of-rhetoric-and-the-rhetoric-of-art\/#more-2655\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said yesterday, I had already picked this week&#8217;s Odysseus Medal winner, so I didn&#8217;t include his posts among the Short List of nominees. Instead, I&#8217;ll present them here. The Odysseus Medal this week goes to Mike Farmer for his tour de force series of posts on Web 2.0 and the real estate practitioner. 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I can't imagine it will be any easier for you to vote for the People's Choice Award. What gets a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog Carnivals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog Carnivals","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blog-carnivals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2474,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2474\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-14\/","url_meta":{"origin":2655,"position":2},"title":"The Odysseus Medal competition &#8212; Voting for the People&#8217;s Choice Award is open","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A total of 15 entries on the short list this week, out of a long list of 55 posts. Vote for the People's Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy. Ahem: Please don't spam all your friends to come\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog Carnivals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog Carnivals","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blog-carnivals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1961,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1961\/dont-forget-to-nominate-the-posts-you-love-most-for-the-odysseus-medal-competition\/","url_meta":{"origin":2655,"position":3},"title":"Don&#8217;t forget to nominate the posts you love most for the Odysseus Medal competition","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been occupied by matters funereal, but life goes on. The deadline for Odysseus Medal nominations is today at 12 Noon PDT\/MST. If you know of something worthy of recognition, your own work or someone else's, nominate it now while it's on your mind. 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