This weeks' Grand Rapids Association of Realtors® e-mail newsletter announced the creation of a new entity...the President's Blog.  2009 incoming president, Greg Carlson wrote a short memo to the 2,200+ member association inviting the members of the association to participate in a "conversation' with him, the Board of Directors and the staff.

According to the communique...

"The blog will enable Greg to provide important GRAR updates and news regarding industry issues and trends.  More importantly, it will enable members to provide comments, feedback, and suggestions directly to Greg.  That feedback will then be conveyed to the Board of Directors and taken into consideration in the decision making processes."

I think this is marvelous! 

I'm thrilled to see our association making good use of the open forum that blogs provide to respond to member concerns and create a unfiltered avenue of communication to the leaders of the association.  It's definitely a change whose time has come!

Greg's willingness to be available to the membership through this forum is the sort of 'out of the box' thinking that leaders within our profession need to cultivate.  To date, most of the real estate blogging activity in the industry has been a conversation between agents and/or members of the public.  I think it's time, we used the creativity unleashed by this powerful tool to enable a conversation within our association leadership and it's members about the future they'd like to create. 

I'm curious...are you aware of any other Realtor® Boards/Associations that are using a blog to facilitate a conversation between its members?  If you're aware of one or are a part of one, could you post a comment.  I'm sure Greg and the members of the Grand Rapids Association of Realtors would welcome your insights.  Thanks.

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