{"id":2910,"date":"2008-04-06T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T19:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2008-04-06T08:47:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T15:47:47","slug":"the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2910\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-25\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odysseus Medal competition &#8212; Voting for the People&#8217;s Choice Award is open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have 14 entries on the short list this week, out of a long long list of 96 posts. I&#8217;ve already decided on the winner of the Odysseus Medal, so I&#8217;m not linking that way. This week&#8217;s Short List is all Zillow Mortgage Marketplace posts, all of them written by lenders. If you&#8217;re not interested, you&#8217;re just not interested, but I can&#8217;t imagine how you wouldn&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the Short List contestants wrote two posts each, so I&#8217;m going to count a vote for either as a vot for that person. If one of them wins, I&#8217;ll split the People&#8217;s Choice Award between both posts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/PeoplesChoice.php\" target=\"_blank\">Vote for the People&#8217;s Choice Award here<\/a>. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Ahem: Please don&#8217;t spam all your friends to come and vote for you. First, what we&#8217;re interested in is what is popular among people who would have been voting anyway. And second, I&#8217;ll eliminate you for cheating. Don&#8217;t say you weren&#8217;t warned.<\/p>\n<p>Voting runs through to 12 Noon MST Monday. I&#8217;ll announce the winners of this week&#8217;s awards soon thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Here is this week&#8217;s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:<\/p>\n<p>< ?PHP\n$AltEntries = array (\n\"Brian Brady -- Zillow Mortgage Bourse\t<a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2904\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">Zillow Mortgage Bourse: How To Acquire Long-Term Clients&#8221;,<br \/>\n&#8220;Brian Brady &#8212; Zillow Mortgage Marketplace\t<\/a><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2892\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">Zillow Mortgage Marketplace: One Way Transparency Like A Bad Online Dating Site<\/a>&#8220;,<br \/>\n&#8220;Dan Melson &#8212; Zillow\\&#8217;s New Mortgage Quote Forum\t<a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.searchlightcrusade.net\/2008\/04\/zillows_new_mortgage_quote_for.html\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">Zillow&#8217;s New Mortgage Quote Forum<\/a>&#8220;,<br \/>\n&#8220;Gina Gardner &#8212; Zillow Mortgage Reflects National Trends\t<a href=\\\"http:\/\/blog.mariah.com\/2008\/04\/dog-eat-dog-zillow-mortgage-reflects-national-trends-in-selling\/\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">Dog Eat Dog: Zillow Mortgage Reflects National Trends in Selling<\/a>&#8220;,<br \/>\n&#8220;Jeff Corbett &#8212; Zillows Mortgage Community\t<a href=\\\"http:\/\/thexbroker.com\/2008\/04\/03\/zillows-mortgage-community-the-consumer-is-ready-but-is-the-mortgage-professional\/\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">Zillows Mortgage Community. The Consumer is Ready, But is The Mortgage Professional?<\/a>&#8220;,<br \/>\n&#8220;Jeff Corbett &#8212; Zillows Mortgage Community, On The Cusp\t<a href=\\\"http:\/\/thexbroker.com\/2008\/04\/05\/zillows-mortgage-community-on-the-cusp-of-an-anonymous-transparent-credit-and-personal-information-exchange-between-mortgage-professionals-and-consumer-to-create-a-highly-trusted-mortgage-transactio\/\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">Zillows Mortgage Community, On The Cusp of an Anonymous Transparent Credit and Personal Information eXchange Between Mortgage Professionals and Consumer, to Create a Highly Trusted Mortgage Transaction Community<\/a>&#8220;,<br \/>\n&#8220;Morgan Brown &#8212; Zillow Mortgage Launches\t<a href=\\\"http:\/\/blownmortgage.com\/2008\/04\/02\/zillow-mortgage-launches-how-do-you-rate\/\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">Zillow Mortgage Launches &#8211; How do you rate?<\/a>&#8220;,<br \/>\n&#8220;Rhonda Porter &#8212; Zillow Launches On-Line Mortgage Quotes\t<a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2008\/04\/02\/zillow-launches-on-line-mortgage-rate-quotes\/\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">Zillow Launches On-Line Mortgage Rate Quotes<\/a>&#8220;,<br \/>\n&#8220;Rhonda Porter &#8212; Zillows On Line Mortgage Leads\t<a href=\\\"http:\/\/tgalleg.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2008\/04\/a-new-post-by-r.html\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">Zillow&#8217;s On Line Mortgage Leads: Is It For You?<\/a>&#8220;,<br \/>\n&#8220;Todd Carpenter &#8212; I have a war to fight\t<a href=\\\"http:\/\/blog.mariah.com\/2008\/04\/i-dont-have-time-for-any-salesmen-i-have-a-war-to-fight-yes-its-another-freaking-post-about-zillow\/\\\" target=\\\"posts\\\">I don&#8217;t have <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2910\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-25\/#more-2910\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have 14 entries on the short list this week, out of a long long list of 96 posts. I&#8217;ve already decided on the winner of the Odysseus Medal, so I&#8217;m not linking that way. This week&#8217;s Short List is all Zillow Mortgage Marketplace posts, all of them written by lenders. If you&#8217;re not interested, [&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":[21,3,4,26,6,5,19,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blog-carnivals","7":"category-blogging","8":"category-disintermediation","9":"category-lending","10":"category-marketing","11":"category-real-estate","12":"category-technology","13":"category-the-odysseus-medal","14":"category-zillowcom","16":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1963,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1963\/voting-for-the-people-choice-award-the-long-and-short-of-short-listing-odysseus-medal-nominations\/","url_meta":{"origin":2910,"position":0},"title":"Voting for The People Choice Award: The long and short of short-listing Odysseus Medal nominations","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Week by week, I'm seeing more and more great Odysseus Medal nominations. 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Vote for the People's Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface\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":2910,"position":4},"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. 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