The outstanding real estate “social network” ActiveRain has just held it’s own version of a Blog Carnival.
For those that don’t know of ActiveRain, it’s a social network for real estate professionals. You can build a profile (with one-way links to your website and/or blog!), participate in forums, contact other network members and they have a great blogging platform that is very active. The cost is right — free. It’s a wonderful place to learn and make business and personal contacts.
Maureen Francis, who blogs on ActiveRain and her “other blog” conceived of a great idea to get some of the “Rainers” involved in a Blog Carnival. She spooled up an ActiveRain only Carnival and the results were fabulous. Several Rainers agreed to host segments of the Carnival. Yours truly volunteered for the “Industry News” section.
Picking a winner among several great entries proved challenging, and made me a little apprehensive about my hosting of the Carnival of Real Estate on March 12. That should prove to be a daunting task!
The winning post in the “Industry News” section came from Toby Boyce who wrote a great piece titled, “Calling a Scam a Scam: But is it Really?” Toby’s an excellent writer and you’d be well advised to check out the rest of his AR blog.
For a peak at the other entries, that ranged from local happenings to “green” homes to bubble popping and a super piece on independent brokerages, go here. We even had Craig Newmark, founder of CraigsList leave a comment on an entry!
Winners in other Carnival categories were:
Carol Williams for Real Estate Opinion
Jeff Belonger for Finance
Damion Flynn for Tips, Tricks and Advice
Margaret Rome for ActiveRain Community
Linda Davis for Off Topic/Humor
ActiveRain is a serious blog platform. Yes, a lot of blog newbies are cutting their teeth there (and some of them are GREAT), but there are also some *outstanding* bloggers on AR, including multiple Carnival of Real Estate winners and finalists. It’s well worth a visit. Just beware of the ActiveRain Addiction!!
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I had to stop by and read your coverage of the first Active Rain Carnival… and also to see if there was anything new and exciting here about Chicken Little, crashing and booming and herd-minded snakes…
Thanks for stopping by! And there’s more to be had at the Chicken Little post…
Jay, Thanks for publishing the full list of Carnival winners. Somehow I missed Linda’s “Good Old Days”.
You were a champ for taking on the task of hosting. I, too, fear my future hosting of CORE. Thank you for your support.
Jay, thanks again for all your hard work you put into helping put this together. The Carnival of ActiveRain was simply awesome.
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