Realty Blogging.The Most Amazing Dog?! I don't get it.
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Not sure I get that exactly, but I've been called much worse. Don't know about Richard, however. Or, maybe the person didn't like the book, calling it a dog. Or, maybe I'm having some whatsapp lead fun with you (yes, I am) and this is nothing more than just a link from a splog (spam blog), which it is. (but, hey, we'll take all the links we can get don't cha know.
Realty Blogging
The book written in 2006 by my former business partner Richard Nacht and I is now available in the new Kindle edition. If you happen to be one of the lucky ones to have gotten one of the devices in the short window of time before it sold out, why not purchase your copy. It's less than $10, so what do you have to lose. I'm a tech gadget wannabe. I'd love to have the latest and greatest, but, alas, my budget won't allow for it. Something about paying a mortgage and car note I'm told.
Still, that doesn't negate
The fact that I'd love to have an Amazon KindleClick to launch this SmartLink! Unfortunately, there is a seven month waiting list, according to one eBayer. Get this. this guy is offering a Kindle for auction that he doesn't even own!
The most amazing thing
though, is that he has 29 bidders with over 13 hours to go at the time of this writing, and the bids are up to $550!
Of course I've set up a watch on this item
I'll be bidding on it of course. It's only for the pure pleasure of seeing how much people are willing to spend on a gadget they'll have to wait months to own. That being said, I have added the Kindle to my wish list for Christmas. I figure they'll have made plenty by then.
There's an interesting discussion
Taking place among the LinkedIn Blogger's group, with some seeing virtue and some seeing vice. Lacking any conclusions myself at this point, here's a brief roundup of some of the conversation taking place. Huge Companies Form Blog Council - Shel Israel ANBT The Blog Council.
Josh Corporate Bloggers Form Blog Council - Rick Calvert
The Blog Council: a How NOT to Corporate Blog Guide - Marketing Pilgrim
Corporate Blog Council Should Swallow Hard and Learn from Critics - Paul Gillin. A search among my RSS feeds for the term "Blog Council" generates 159 returns to date.Blogrunner has a thread going on the topic
Several posts have been aggregated at Social Media Today. Add to that a Google search and one at Technorati and you have to conclude that the brains behind this venture, Andy Sernovitz, who founded WOMMA, certainly knows how to put philosophy into practice and generate significant word-of-mouth, albeit mostly negative at this point.
I admire men like Sernovitz
Even if their efforts are misdirected, as some would conclude, at least they're doing something noteworthy. In the spring of 2005, I attempted to start an association of bloggers that was not too dissimilar in its goals, that of bringing professional bloggers together in a conclave to discuss items like blogging best practices and ethical standards. It built up a small head of steam, but nothing of substance ever materialized. (My fault)
Back then, the idea of a best practices and standards scenario for blogging was met with some derision, and perhaps rightly so. But, these days, with blogging moving into the mainstream (at least that's what we keep telling ourselves), perhaps that time has come -- at least where large corporations are concerned.
I'm waiting to hear what pundits like Debbie Weil, who arguably wrote the book on corporate blogging, and Seth Godin, who wrote the book on just about everything else marketing related, have to say. The fact that neither have said anything may be telling enough.