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I posted this article yesterday on Active Rain a social real estate blogging site. So far there are 89 comments on the post. My first post back in June on the topic had 129 comments on it. So you can tell Blogging or anything to do with curtailing it is a hot topic for many agents.I love blogging and I was very interested, when this past May blogging was brought up at my National Association of REALTORS Professional Standards committee meeting in DC. My ears perked up and I watched and listened closely wondering where this was going. I was relieved when the topic was referred back to sub-committee for further study. This Nov 14th my committee meets again in Vegas and I’m sure the sub committee report will be interesting.

My article as it appeared on Active Rain yesterday….

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NAR looking at Blogs…what say you??

After a few mishaps getting to DC I’m happy that I can report that on Thursday May 17th I attended my NAR Professional Standards committee meeting.

I love being on this committee and am in the second year of my second 3 year term. After 4 years the newness has worn off but this year I was really looking forward to this meeting as I knew Blogs would be discussed.

The first part of the meeting is the Professional Standards Forum, the forum allows all REALTOR members to bring up their concerns about the code and the enforcement process as well as sharing of ideas.

As we entered the ballroom this funky looking tall guy in a white suit greeted people, congratulating them on being ethical and then poking fun at them! It was funny to see and I knew immediately who he was thanks to AR member Mariana Wagner who posted about how to be a slimy real estate agent, I think the majority of the attendees had no idea who Ted Truitt was. I could hardly contain myself as I watched their reactions!

We spent about an hour and half doing the open forum and then the committee meeting started.

First off…We passed a new Standard of Practice prohibiting members from misrepresenting their status as members or designees of NAR’s Institutes, Societies and Councils. This is a good thing in my opinion.

Then we tabled the Internet-related issues…blogs to name a few until November. The sub committee will be be looking at Article 12 to see if we need a broader more encompassing ethical direction guiding all forms of communication. They will also be looking at

1. A clearer definition of communications

2. REALTOR making anonymous comments on other REALTORS Blogs

3. REALTORS responsibility for monitoring/editing their own Blogs

4. REALTORS responsibility for Blogs run by licensees affiliated with them

5. Disclosure of time lag (hours or days) in posting comments to Blogs. Must the fact that a Blog is not run in “live time” be disclosed?

6. Posting unfavorable/unflattering (but truthful) comments to Blogs

I can’t wait till November to see what the sub committee comes back with. It should be very interesting and being a blogger I have very mixed feelings about some of this.

One thing I learned while in DC is that there are many-many people who have no clue what blogging is and surprisingly people in important positions who do not see any merit in blogging and will not encourage their sales associates to blog!

What do you think? Should NAR dip it’s fingers inside our blogs? Do we need NAR policing blogs? I think it’s going to happen no matter what but am curious as to my fellow bloggers feelings about this.

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