There was a blog post made today by Michael Thornton called, You've Come A Long Way Baby, which was very cool and showed us the original posts made on Active Rain and how to see who our newest members are, but it also told us that we were close to our 1 millionth post with an approximate 140,000 members.  The very first comment on this post was by Penny Hull - who "did the math" - and informed us that that was only an average of 7 posts per member.  WHAT?  How is that even possible? 

I joined Active Rain on 6/12/2008, and did not post for the first two months...guess the kids getting out of school really threw me for a loop or something...but I have (as of this post) 70 posts on Active Rain in under a year, which I though was kind of slacking on my part, but at least that's more than a post per week. It is hard for me to write intelligent original posts sometimes...there are days when just nothing comes to me...but then I go back and look at my note on my desktop about blogging ideas or something will come into my email inbox that sparks my thought processes, or as was brought up here on AR this last week in a blog post by Diane Rice, a comment that I post on someone else's blog will inspire my own blog post.  So, I figured that perhaps that's the reason why there are so few posts per member of Active Rain...maybe it's hard for them to come up with original post ideas as well. 

So, I did a little research into the last few posts that have given out ideas.  Here they are:

• http://activerain.com/blogsview/52419/Top-10Business-GeneratingThings-to-Post-on-Your-Blog
• Apparently Sue Argue suggested this site (can't find the post that she suggested it in though?): http://www.famousagents.com/content-ideas/
• http://activerain.com/blogsview/182652/Need-a-subject-for-a-blog-post
• http://realestatetomato.typepad.com/the_real_estate_tomato/2007/07/food-for-fodder.html
• http://www.rsspieces.com/a-yearrs-worth-of-real-estate-blog-ideas

Those were all found just by using the search feature quickly.  And if they don't suit your needs, do your own search...search by season or general topic, etc...

Let's get those numbers up people...the only way to win the game is to play...and the only sure way to lose the game is to take yourself out of it by not participating.  Participate in your membership at Active Rain!