The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open

by Greg Swann

Suburban Phoenix Real Estate Broker

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There are 36 entries on the short list this week. That’s a ton, but, even so, it’s less than half of what we started with. Given that it’s a holiday week, there was a lot of great stuff this week. We knew that going in, because both Jeff Kempe and Kris Berg hit home runs at the top of the week. 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 and vote for you. First, what we’re interested in is what is popular among people who would have been voting anyway. And second, I’ll eliminate you for cheating. Don’t say you wasn’t warned.

Voting this week will run through to 12 Noon MST Wednesday to leave time between all the Christmas stuff. 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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“Teri Lussier — Selling vacant How to sell a vacant home this winter: Make like a Boy Scout“,
“Geno Petro — Bumper stickers How do I really feel about that, I wonder?“,
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“Brian Boero — Redfin The school of Redfin, Part II“,
“Andrew Mattie — IDX Basic IDX Questions, Answered“,
“Michael Wurzer — Centralization Centralization Is A Bug“,
“Krista Baker — Marketing plan How To Create Your 2008 Business and Marketing Plan“,
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“Gary Elwood — Hidden desires Political Pollster Spills the Beans: How to Find Those Hidden Desires“,
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“Brian Brady — Jesuits Some of the Many Are Consumers“,
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“Russell Shaw — FTC A Bolt From the Blue for the FTC“,
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“Kris Berg — Science v. religion Science versus Religion“,
“Brian Brady — Technology Technology is a TOOL Not a Solution”
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