I’ve been looking for other bloggers in San Ramon, Danville, Dublin and Pleasanton, CA for months. There don’t seem to be many, in fact, I’ve only found two. So, I decided to create some.

I teamed up with Pat Kitano of TransparentRE.com to teach some blogging classes in the bay area. We have our third class coming up on Feb. 27 in Pleasanton. The focus of the classes has been oriented toward the real estate industry since we’re all in the industry, but I have been putting more and more attention into bringing in more business people from other areas.

Blogging is a fantastic way to increase your presence on the Internet. When I show people what is going on with The Harper Team site and the search engines like Google, their jaws hit the table. It’s one of those things that you really can’t grasp the significance of until you see it.

But this post isn’t about getting you to blog – it’s about a great group of bloggers I found throughout Contra Costa County. They’re the type of people that make you proud of your community. They’re an elite group of high school students and you can find them at I Should be Doing My Homework.

This is a blog community sponsored by the Contra Costa Times – our hats off to them. The CCTimes had an article on this group of bloggers on January 30 which is where I learned of them.

Since then, I’ve stopped in a few times and left a comment or two on some of the posts. There are a couple of students that are prolific writers. I doubt that they realize the impact that blogging can have on their futures at this time. In a year or two, maybe sooner, these students could be known-figures on the Internet with audiences in the tens of thousands. I’ll be interested to see where it all goes.

In the mean time, a salute to the students, their schools and parents and the Contra Costa Times.