Realty Blogging - A "Blog Community"

“One of the biggest challenges facing your company is that, like it or not, your competitors are or will be using blogs.” “The question for you, then, isn’t should you get into blogs, but how will you get into blogs and how will you leverage them to maximize their return to your business?” - Jeremy Wright, Author of Blog Marketing That's part of the signature from a recent email conversation with Chris Bubny of Realty Blogging, leader of a network of blogging evangelists writing on effective real estate blogging. Realty Blogging is a great example of how experts and thought-leaders in the real estate and mortgage communities can bond together to form a "Blog Community". It’s an invaluable resource for daily updates on news, information, tools and tips on how blogging can be used as real estate marketing tools. As a new blogger I'm just beginnning to "see the light" in terms of the power of collaboration in Real Estate blogs. Appraisers have been effectively using web based email forums for years to network and share ideas amongst members of the forum. The problem with that is that we can often be "preaching to the choir". I believe that an effective and informative "Appraiser's Blog" can reach out to users for appraisal services and foster greater understanding of issues that we share.