Real Estate Technology Coach

I will fully admit, I only have three quarters of the story on this one.  I say three quarters instead of half because I had screen shots and they really didn’t look Photoshopped.

Apparently, a local real estate blogger wrote an article talking about visiting a local body of water.  The body of water was misspelled repeatedly.  The accompanying photos had ALT tags and captions that made them appear as though the blogger was the photographer.  My informant sent me links to the original sources of the photos that showed the local real estate blogger was not, in fact, the photographer.

Again, I’m not sure about how 100% correct this is since things could have been changed, but my informant sent me the comment they submitted.  The comment that was very direct (I guess some could read it as confrontational, I didn’t), pointed out the misspellings and suggested the blogger be careful about appearing to claim rights to a photo.

Here’s where this becomes a Choose Your Own Adventure as a blogger, do you:

1. Take offense, fix it and delete the comment
2. Take offense, cool down, fix it, approve the comment and publicly thank the person for helping

Now, I guess we can all deal with this in different ways.

Here at RETechCoach, please feel free to offer suggestions.  We all make mistakes and we would rather learn from them and have you keep coming back thinking we’re reasonable people.

UPDATE: We were told by our informant to check out the latest post from the blogger in question and it appears as though it was all a simple mistake anybody could have made.  Kudos to the blogger for accepting constructive criticism and making things right in the world!

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