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I attended the VPTC “‘Casting for Customers” on Thursday and was quite impressed (as I fully expected to be) with the quality of the discussion. Cvillepodcast has the podcast and there is a brief blogging “primer” on Michael Prichard’s site.
Coincidentally, I came across this site yesterday, which led me to this blog discussing how and whether companies should integrate blogging into their corporate marketing plans. His arguments are against corporate blogs, per se.
I have just released, in conjunction with VirginiaPodcast.com, my first listing podcast for the property I am marketing in the Grayrock subdivision in Crozet, Virginia…. Please let me know what you think. I am looking for candid feedback; this is a good start and I have another one in the works. Thanks to Sean for all of his technical wizardry.
(I showed his house the other day, it is beautiful, but just not right for my clients)He says, in part:After two full years of continuous blogging, I am more imbued with enthusiasm about life than when I started. I think this is because I am allowed and encouraged to communicate my ideas with more people than ever before.One of the most important comments he makes is this:I get almost instantaneous feedback on how valuable or confusing my communication seems to readers. As a result, I am driven to communicate more effectively.I have been blogging for almost a year, and my blog has certainly evolved from this to what you see today…. Constant writing and critical and creative thinking forces me to one, develop my skills as a writer and two, be and project myself as being, a (the?)
Inman News – Real Estate News and Advice for Buyers, Sellers & Investors:What is Google up to? A screenshot of what appears to be a new Google service in the works called Google Base appeared on a Dutch blogger’s site, Seweso.com…. On Monday, another blogger reported discovering a new Google subdomain, base.google.com, though nothing appears at that address today…. The interesting part for real estate is that the screenshot shown on the Dutch blogger’s site shows a page where the user enters information about a real estate listing.This kind of scares me, from an industry point of view.
Today, as part of a larger post, I received a little bit of recognition from Cvillenews.com – Jim Duncan provides a great example of how a blog can be beneficial to its author and to the community…. Now, if you asked me to name three real estate agents in the area, I don’t doubt that I’d name him. The few hundred subscribers to the Charlottesville Blogs RSS feed may well do the same, as would whatever number of people read his site regularly. The benefit to me is that I now have a sense of area real estate — I understand what the trends are, how we’re impacted by national market changes, and I think I get how real estate fits into the large picture in Charlottesville.Going from “never heard of” to “one of three” is pretty good, and frankly feels kind of good.
Did you know that October is Virginia Wine Month?To celebrate, Tastings of Charlottesville has partnered with Wordcast Productions to produce the first Charlottesville/Central Virginia wine podcast. If you are interested in the region’s wine, this is an excellent listen. Central Virginia has an extraordinary number of excellent vineyards that consistently produce excellent wines…. I believe that this in an excellent opportunity to accomplish a few things – first, to continue my love of wine, second, to be a part of a format that I believe will only grow and three, increase my business’ and my blog’s profile in a segment of the real estate market I believe to be very desirable.
My personal favorite from QandO – Don’t get stuck on stupid.Fiber is Cheaper than Asphalt, a call for more broadband, something that Nelson County is working on (and here).Building homes few can afford.