Haven't heard the word before, neither had we. We looked it up and it looked like fun!

More than you ever wanted to know about a Southeast Michigan Real Estate Team. We are based in Birmingham, Michigan home of the world famous WOODWARD DREAM CRUISE. (The Woodward Dream Cruise is the world’s largest one-day celebration of car culture that attracts over 1.7 million visitors, and more than 40000 muscle cars …)

 
Linda Davis, a fellow real estate blogger, has memed us. Her blog Eastern CT Blog Buffet is creative and well written. The term "meme" (rhymes with dream) seems to have evolved from a book by Richard Dawkins in 1976. As it relates to blogging, I rather like the definition provided on The Daily Meme.

WEB - Our first real estate website was in 1995.  We have gone through numerous total revisions and use a website designer, Sandy Teller of Sizzling Studios.  Like most websites our first one was all about us. Now, it is all about SE Michigan and the Birmingham Bloomfield Hills area and what our prospective customers and clients want to know.  Our main Real Estate site is www.WhitehouseS.com. Our second site where clients and customers can search for available property, get a current value for their property or have a search set up that updates them on what’s available every morning is www.SEMichiganHomeInfo.com.

Computers – Our first computer was an Apple with a floppy drive and a modem. Our real estate office didn’t have a computer yet. They only had a Silent Thermal printer terminal. Our first venture into computers was to find a way for our Apple computer to communicate with the MLS so we could get information before most agents got into the office in the morning.

EMAIL – Bulletin Boards and Email became part of our daily routine very early.  Today the fastest and quickest way to reach us is via email as we all carry a Blackberry. Speaking of Blackberry (BB) let me share why we will never go to another communications device. The BB has a little known capability called PIN to PIN messaging. If you know the PIN number of another BB you can send a PIN message just like email. The difference being that a couple of years ago when the whole East Coast had a major power failure cell phones and email were useless but PIN to PIN still worked and I could communicate with my wife across town and our daughter in Chicago to get the lastest news. I now ask every BB user for the PIN number of their Blackberry.  

BROWSER – Simply IE.

GROUPS -  We belong to a group of the top 200 or so agents in the world know as the CyberStars.   I’m also a member of a Community Zero group with my Cyberprofessional family. These groups, with many common members, share their exceptional marketing skills openly with one another making each and everyone of them the top marketer in their individual market areas.

BLOG PLATFORM – I use Real Estate Blog Sites because I think Bill French is a genius and I love his Myst Technology. I love COO Kristin Veraldi who is always quick to respond which is important if you are a blogger. The previous two sentences were written by Linda and I just copied them because she is right. At one time I blogged on Active Rain, mostly to other bloggers but I have not found the time to keep up that blog.

Test Messaging - Yes 

RADIO – I’m not a big radio listener.  I am currently listening to Greek lessons on my I-pod as we are headed to Greece in September.

MUSIC – I like country music and Broadway musicals like Phantom of the Opera.

TV – 24 is the only program I plan my schedule around and if I do miss it, I have every show on Tivo. 

BOOKS – I read mostly fiction – the last book was James Patterson’s "Step on a Crack." I also like John Grisham’s writings.  One of my favorite inspirational books is "Illusions" by Richard Bach.

PODCASTS – Don’t listen to them.

COMMUNICATION – I prefer e-mail or Text messaging.

MAGAZINES – Power Boating, Great Lakes Boating and Wired.

This photo was taken in the Canadian North Channel and it shows why we like boating.

NEWSPAPER -  Wall Street Journal

REPLY TO LINDA – who said "I’m meming all my friends in my Real Estate Blog Site’s yahoo group!  I’m curious to see how many accept the challenge." Challenged accepted.

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