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FLORIDA
HOA & CONDO BLOG –
A
SUCCESSFUL FIRST YEAR!
By
Jan Bergemann
Published
April 12, 2013
When
we started this blog this week a year ago, we didn’t really
know what to expect. We just tried – hoping that homeowners
and condo owners would like what we had to say and give us their
input on specific issues discussed. To be very honest: I was
positively surprised about the number of hits and the number of
comments.
Last
month we had quadrupled the number of hits on the website
compared to the first month of its existence.
There
are a few other blogs here in
Florida
, dealing with the same issues. Not one of them comes even close
to the popularity of our BLOG!
I
think that the same topic discussed by an attorney, a community
association manager and a homeowner advocate makes this blog
especially interesting. Interesting topics create interesting
comments – and interesting comments and opinions are making
this blog a success.
Make
no mistake: We bloggers can only initiate the discussion by
mixing hot topics with education. The comments are the life
blood of this blog – nothing else. The comments posted are
showing how the readers feel – and what they think about the
topic and the post.
There
are some newspapers and private websites trying to get a blog
going. One newspaper had a very interesting blog that caused a
lot of readers to comment – until they turned this blog into a
private advertising page for two law firms – and it more or
less died due to lack of interest. Just look at the number of
comments under these blogs: Close to Zero! And if there are
comments, they are posted by other bloggers trying to cheer each
other up!
Controversy
makes every blog interesting. And there is plenty of controversy
found in
Florida
’s community associations. Actually, not a day passes by when
the media is not reporting about some serious problems in
community associations.
That
doesn’t bode well for the owners, but it sure gives us
bloggers plenty to write about!
I
wish to say “Thank you” to my two fellow bloggers and the
many interested folks who visited our blog and posted lots of
comments!
Let’s make it an even better year with hopefully more positive
topics. Thank you!
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