When bloggers collide
In my last post, I wrote about Hubbell Realty Co.’s new marketing tactic to sell some homes in West Des Moines.
It has stirred up quite a debate, including 18 comments on IowaBiz, a formal response from Hubbell and a spillover to at least two other Web sites.
Fellow IowaBiz blogger Drew McLellan garnered a whopping 47 responses to his Dec. 18 “Drew’s
marketing minute” blog post and Tim Johnson, another IowaBiz professional, received 10 comments on his post at www.carpefactum.com.
A perk of blogging for me is the opportunity to include a little personal interjection into my writing, something that, as an objective news writer, I don’t get to do very often. (Disclosure: I have no problem with Hubbell’s marketing technique in this case. I say if it works, they should work it. No harm, no foul.)
Regardless of how you may feel about this particular issue – the majority of commentators believe Hubbell has committed a serious transgression with its Hailey Brownstone site – the fact that a short piece written about social networking applications, and published on a blog, has stirred up so much interaction in the online community is a testimony in itself to the power of online communication applications of all varieties.
My objective is to keep the discussion, on this topic and others to come, moving forward in the new year.
Feel free to chime in.
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