{"id":909,"date":"2007-01-17T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T22:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2007-04-12T21:21:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T04:21:32","slug":"celebrating-the-spirit-of-transparent-real-estate-weblogging-bloodhoundblog-can-and-will-do-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/909\/celebrating-the-spirit-of-transparent-real-estate-weblogging-bloodhoundblog-can-and-will-do-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the spirit of transparent real estate weblogging: BloodhoundBlog can and will do more . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m thinking that I should take a much larger role in the growth of the RE.net. Many people are convinced that hundreds of agents and lenders will be starting real estate weblogs in the coming year. That may or may not be so, but it is a certainty that the sharks are circling in the water, looking for another pound of flesh. I don’t absolutely hate vendor involvement in the real estate blogging world, but I’d like to do what I can to make sure people are getting what they’re paying for — and not<\/i> paying to have smoke blown up their… noses.<\/p>\n

Moreover, I am very concerned that new entrants will miss the forest in a quest for leads. There is nothing wrong with forging business relationships through weblogs, but we will kill everything if the RE.net comes to be seen, in consumers’ eyes, as just another spamvertising channel. Weblogging is about the good, the true and the beautiful first, and only secondarily about commerce. If we screw this up, it won’t work — not for commerce and not for anything.<\/p>\n

I’ve talked with Brian Brady about doing blogging seminars<\/a>, and I’ve traded email with other RE.net luminaries on the subject. For the moment, I feel like this is overkill. Arranging an event is a logistical nightmare, and, even then, it’s tough to get enough people together to make a dent in the problem. Worse yet, somebody has to pay for a seminar, either the attendees or a sponsor.<\/p>\n

But what’s really needed is already here: Weblogs, podcasts and video podcasts. For now, I’m going to start putting together a basic set of tools in weblog and podcast form. As these materials start to gel, we’ll go buy some video studio time and commit the more important ideas to video podcasts. Maybe in the long run, we’ll produce a DVD or CD, but my thinking, for now at least, is that the best medium for discussing the world wide web is the world wide web.<\/p>\n

But wait. There’s more. I’m going to start a meme game that we can use to catalog the RE.net Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m thinking that I should take a much larger role in the growth of the RE.net. Many people are convinced that hundreds of agents and lenders will be starting real estate weblogs in the coming year. That may or may not be so, but it is a certainty that the sharks are circling in the […]<\/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":[3,6,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-weblogging-101","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1538,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1538\/an-renet-taxonomy-identifying-types-of-real-estate-weblogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":909,"position":0},"title":"An RE.net taxonomy: Identifying types of real estate weblogs","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a first strike at a taxonomy of real estate weblogs. 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