Mar. 16, 2007 - My Project Blogger Apprentice

As seen this week in Inman News, we are getting ready for the kickoff of "Project Blogger".  The Competition is STIFF and the Coaches will be hard to beat!

Here's the meat of the Inman New story on the event: 

ActiveRain will select 10-15 blogging coaches to each train a real estate blogging apprentice of their choice. Over the course of about four months, the blogging coaches will aim to develop the most successful real estate blogger.

Coaches and apprentices will be chronicling their Project Blogger experiences on their own blogs and the Project Blogger group on ActiveRain. A few coaches who have already signed up are Teresa Boardman, who blogs at the St. Paul Real Estate Blog; Ardell DellaLoggia, who blogs at the Searching Seattle Blog; and Jim Cronin, who blogs at the Real Estate Tomato blog. More about the coaches who have already committed to the project is at the "Meet the Coaches" post at ActiveRain.

Teams will be judged each week and scored according to criteria such as degree of innovation in approach, consistency, quality of postings, the apprentice's community involvement, traffic or reach of apprentice's blog, and more.

The competition officially opens on April 9 and ends July 15. Winners will be announced at Bloggers Connect. ActiveRain will donate $5,000 to the winning team's charity of choice.

Interested observers can track each team's progress and updates on the competition at the Project Blogger Forum on ActiveRain.

Inman News' Bloggers Connect is the first conference for real estate bloggers. The two-day event aims to help real estate bloggers gather insights into best practices and the biggest rewards of real estate blogging.

By now you should be wondering who that handsome dude us up there in the photo.  YUP!!  That is my apprentice, Kevin Tomlinson the King of Miami Beach and South Beach Luxury Townhomes.  Stay tuned!  This could get fun!