Hey social media types: Thought y’all (or more specifically, your members) might be interested in knowing about a new blogging benchmarking survey that we’re running at VARbuzz.com.

The Center for Real Estate and Social Technologies (CREST) is a new research and education program for REALTORS® who use social media in their business. CREST’s first initiative is a research survey that seeks to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about real estate blogging:

• What’s the average number of comments on a post?
• How many posts do REALTORS® write per month, on average?
• What’s the most common blogging platform?
• How many RSS subscribers does the average real estate blog have?
• And much, much more!

If you know of any REALTOR® bloggers in your neck of the woods, please send them to VARbuzz to take the survey. Also, if your communications department would be willing to announce this survey to your members, I’d be happy to provide them with a copy of the aggregate results and the executive summary when it’s ready. It will make for a very interesting story for your blogging agents and brokers!

Contact me with questions ben at varealtor dot com.