The Personal Property Appraisers Post

I have mentioned over the past few months the new webzine/blog project I was working on. The site is a "non-denominational" site, designed for all appraisers, with news and appraisal related content unfiltered by any group or association. I am very excited about this project as it has been extremely well received by fellow appraisers. I expect it to be a destination site for personal property appraisal news and content.

The Personal Property Appraisers Post will soon launch, but I wanted AW Blog readers, many who are going to be Appraisers Post contributors the opportunity to visit the site and view some of the appraisers who have volunteered to participate in this project. I hope to eventually get between 30-50 appraisers and related industry professionals involved in the site. Each committing to post at least once every 4-6 weeks. With the proper balance between posts and contributors, the site should always have new and fresh content. The contributors all have direct access to the site for posting, reinforcing the Independence of the site.

The site currently has about 20 contributors listed, enough to soon officially launch the webzine, with still more to be added over the next few days. I will post to the AW Blog when the site officially launches. Some bugs in the template have just been worked out, (Internet Explorer users could not view the side bar) and a few more posts need to be posted.

There are currently two post on the site, one from Stephen Sweeting, ASA who wrote about the art market in Canada, and a new post from David Maloney, AOA CM who just posted on the appraisal debate of Inspection vs Non-Inspection. Both are excellent articles for the appraiser, and what I hope to be representative of the content that will be regularly posted on the Appraisers Post. The Appraisers Post currently has a CPA/attorney and an attorney/appraiser as contributors and will soon be adding other specialties such as fine art and decortive art conservators.

Please take a few minutes and visit the site. More content will be posted shortly with interesting topics such as appraisal professionalism, furniture designers of the 20th century and building and maintaining an appraisal library. The site will also contain information on upcoming conferences and appraisal related education and events.

Visit the site at www.appraiserspost.blogspot.com

If you are interested in being a contributor, and like to write, click HERE to email me. Remember, the time committment is minimal, only one post every 4-6 weeks of about 300-800 words.