Community is The Core of CoRE
It's hard to believe there have been 105 CoRE posts. This week's host, Toby Boyce posted earlier this evening on Twitter (@realtortoby) that He thinks that CoRE may have "jumped the shark" due to the amount of traffic to his blog as compared to his original CoRE hosting experience. I don't think that's entirely the case, but I do think those involved with the CoRE community as a whole have become busy and maybe a little complacent in their support and promotion. I will be the first to admit I am guilty recently of not writing posts like this one to draw attention to the weekly CoRE. The submission that I made this week was also my first in months. To top it off I fell behind in our volunteer duty of updating the podcast feed of CoRE audio interviews, which are actually very popular. I've taken care of the update and even decided to create the podcasts in an enhanced format. In the future I will be adding chapter markers that will make listening to the podcasts more enjoyable along with graphics and hyperlinks designed to draw a little more attention and traffic to the host via iTunes.So, if you're a Carnival of Real Estate fan, help the community out by writing a CoRE link post once in a while, make sure you have it in your blog roll, and please submit your best stuff every week. I think the most important thing to consider is your role as a host and your responsibility to showcase the best of the best in the RE.net. That's kind of hard to do if you don't have enough to choose from. CoRE is one of the few community based efforts without a bigger corporate agenda and exists in a completely transparent fashion. If you look at the CoRE site you will find nothing in the way of self promotion for the founders and hosts. Zillow has put a lot into it in the way of resources (Including a great redesign just a couple of weeks ago). There are a number of extremely successful and popular blogs in the RE.net that have received a tremendous boost, or even been put on the map because of CoRE. This blog owes a great deal of it's success to CoRE and that's why I am stepping up to help make sure it continues to do it's chartered duty, expose the best of the best in the RE.net to the rest of the world!
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posted by Mike Price at 9:45 PM
5 Comments:
Mike,
I totally agree that the Carnival of Real Estate is an important and exciting part of RE2.0.
I think there are a lot of factors that went into this Carnival's dissapointing number of entries.
1. Timing. RE.net seems to peak during the winter in creativity.
2. Interest. I think that too often we saw the same faces winning and are now paying the price.
3. Promotion. Those of us that have been involved in the CoRE for a while know its benefits and features. I was amazed by the number of Twits that had no idea what the CoRE was.
I think we all have to step back up and make it a point to being the CoRE back to its former self.
Toby, I think you make some very valid observations. I had a long talk with Drew tonight and they are very interested in breathing some new life into CoRE. It starts with us. Perhaps Active Rain is a good place to start talking it up.
Active Rain is a great place to talk it up and I think it is a great benefit.
And having been working with the "localism" and "ohio" carnivals I understand how hard they can be to keep moving.
The quality of entries have always included the "bottom" tier that shouldn't be nominated.
My concern was more the 19 entries. Granted, I've been bad at nominating my own posts - and have made it a personal committment to add more entries to the fray in the next couple of weeks.
Glad to hear that I spurred discussion.
Excellent points Mike. I have been remiss on linking to the hosts post. And I've only contribute a couple of times in the past few months. That's partly because I'm trying to only submit the "extra special" posts, and partly because I often forget.
I *loved* Toby's transparency and honesty in critiquing all the submissions. I think more of that could help, and motivate, contributors.
I will endeavor to be more active in promotion and participation.
We've already chatted about this at length offline, but thank you for writing this post Mike. I think a kick in the rear is great for the CoRE community as well as myself right now.
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