Indiana Sifuentes (Las Vegas REALTOR and up-and-coming blogger) emailed me this excellent article from Business Week:  Blogs Will Change Your Business - Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later.  The article, written in May 2005,  really drives home the power of why and how a blog can impact your business.

"...you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they're simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself. And they're going to shake up just about every business -- including yours."

Some other recommended blog posts for novice and more advanced bloggers alike:

• From ProBlogger - Blogging Tips for Beginners
• From Bootstrapper - The Business Blogging Toolset: 100 Resources for Entrepreneur-Writers

Must reads for Real Estate Agents - Blogs on Real Estate Blogging, Marketing and Technology

• Transparent Real Estate
• The Real Estate Tomato
• The Future of Real Estate Marketing
• Real Estate Marketing Secrets
• RSS Pieces
• My Tech Opinion - Technology for Real Estate