A dozen-and-a-half nominees, but seven of them are from BloodhoundBlog. We had a great week; there were five more that I had to wince hard and cut.
A lot from the news, as usual, plus tools, tips, tricks and techniques and the kind of deep thinking that makes this competition what it is.
Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.
Voting runs through to 12 Noon MST Monday. I’ll announce the winners of this week’s awards soon thereafter.
Here is this week’s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:
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"Galen Ward -- Photos Photos are worth 1,000 words (and a lot of money too)”,
“Kris Berg — The green room The Green Room“,
“Jim Cronin — RE weblogging The 7 Reasons Why Your (Future) Clients Should Care That You Are a Real Estate Blogger“,
“Jim Duncan — Martyr yourself? Are you willing to martyr yourself to the industry?“,
“Dan Green — Investors in ARMs Falling Prices And Adjusting ARMs: Real Estate Investors Have A Way Out“,
“Jay Thompson — Prize money? A Commission is Prize Money (?!?)“,
“Richard Warren — Trickle down The Economic Trickle Down Effect“,
“Rhonda Porter — Mortgage witch hunt The Mortgage Witch Hunt“,
“Steve Belt — Trulia Voices Opting out of Trulia Voices“,
“Brian Brady — Hiring a Realtor Hire A Realtor Like You Would Sign a Top NFL Draft Pick“,
“Bill Leider — What is a professional? What Is A Professional?“,
“Geno Petro — La spinster? Mademoiselle? Oui. La Spinster?…ZUT!“,
“Kris Berg — Gas guzzler My Hybrid is a Gas Guzzler“,
“Michael Cook — Perfect storm Real Estate Perfect Storm Warning: Do Not Miss This Window of Opportunity“,
“Brian Brady — HR 3915 HR 3915 Is Dangerous“,
“Teri Lussier — Twittering Twittering on a wing and a prayer“,
“Geno Petro — Search or sell Search Or Sell, Young Man“,
“Kris Berg — Genoa Petrol You, ma’am, are no Genoa Petrol!”
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Deadline for next week’s competition is Sunday at 12 Noon MST. You can nominate your own weblog entry or any post you admire here.
Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate, real estate marketing
Jonathan Washburn says:
I haven’t been following this competition. Who selects the Odysseus finalists each week?
I didn’t realize that of all the real estate blog posts written throughout the blogosphere, bloodhound blog represented almost half of the best posts this week. Very impressive.
November 4, 2007 — 1:35 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Who selects the Odysseus finalists each week?
Me. This week we had 48 nominees, so about one third made the short-list.
> bloodhound blog represented almost half of the best posts this week.
Allowing for my biases, BloodhoundBlog contributors, working here and elsewhere, do an amazing amount of exemplary work every week. I bend over backwards to be fair, especially judging for The Odysseus Medal, but doing exemplary work is how you earn a place at this table.
But: All I see is what I see. My goal in doing this is to see the best of everything, so I entreat everyone reading this to nominate the very best work they see on the RE.net every week.
November 4, 2007 — 1:51 pm
Kris Berg says:
Aha! I see I am holding the most lotto tickets. (If history repeats, I will be the biggest loser again).
Some really good stuff here. Go, Geno!
November 4, 2007 — 5:15 pm
Rhonda Porter says:
Bloodhound Blog has an amazing pack of RE bloggers and I’m honored to have my post included amongst them. Now I’m just trying to read through the one’s I’m not subscribed to (yet) so I can cast my vote!
November 4, 2007 — 5:40 pm
Joshua Dorkin says:
Hey Greg! I’m glad to see that you’ve nominated one of our fantastic contributors again this week, Richard Warren. His Economic Trickle Down Effect takes a great perspective on the economy’s decline. Good luck to him and all of the others!
November 5, 2007 — 8:07 am