On your mark, get set- BLOG!

You might have made history!

...as far as I know, our little get-together was the

FIRST EVER REALTOR BLOGGING SEMINAR IN WISCONSIN

Thanks for coming-

Here are the links resources to get you going as promised.

Remember-Be yourself, take small steps, lurk and learn,

and get into the conversation where you are comfortable.

...and have FUN!

(...remember, sometimes blogs are NSFW -

but don't worry about this one!)

http://obeoman.blogspot.com
Real Estate Is Crazy – a crazy real estate blog. Laugh. Learn. Live.

www.activerain.com
On line community of real estate agents.

www.wannanetwork.com
On line community of real estate agents.

www.facebook.com
Social utility

www.myspace.com
Social network

www.friendster.com
Social network

www.blogger.com
Free blog by Google

www.googleanalytics.com
Free analytics to track your blog performance.

www.wordpress.com
Free blog

www.typepad.com
Free blog

www.rsspieces.com
Learn how to blog for real estate-SEO, RSS tips

http://www.stpaulrealestateblog.com/
Teresa Boardmans' real estate blog, linked to her CWB website, her other blog and activerain

http://www.1000wattconsulting.com/

Common sense for the new market.

http://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/
Edgy blogging collaborative, bucks the mainstream

http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/
The best blogging hub for Real Estate

www.inman.com
Hard news for Real Estate

www.rismedia.com
New trends for real estate

www.swanepoel.com
Opinion leaders for real estate

LINK TO BLOGGING PPT

Hard Knowledge for Soft Skills

...stop back and let me

know how you are doing!

Blog on,

Steve

Obeoman

Why me?-Why now?-Why not?

?

No email.



No internet.



Limited phone service.



For almost two days at the WRA Winter Convention in Lac du Flambeau, WI.



Diogenes got nothing on me.



After spending the past two days wandering around the conference with my laptop open, looking every bit the beggar I was, I made it to my email. I had been able to make a couple of phone calls during the interim, including one from the front desk at the hotel with Obeo president Glade Jones which disconnected for no reason, so everything was OK.



I was even able to hook up the WRA staff with signals on their laptops, but no signal for Steve.



Interesting what happens when you can't see what is going on. Or read. Or hear.



The bad winter weather goes to worse and your company president misses a connection from Utah on the way to a REMAX agency in Madison, WI event with one of your largest clients, the broker and 120 of his best agents. Glade sent me an email, of course. The weather was bad enough to send him home to Salt Lake City.



I also got an email from Jonathan Nicholas, Obeo sales VP, who was also on his way to Madison-to the same event. When he got there-I know he had planned to be-he wrote me an email that HIS email got stuck in a server in La-La land.



Well, you see, this is why Glade was going to Wisconsin because we hadn't heard from Jonathan, who was out there doing the national-travelling Obeo thing with our other clients.



So far, so good. I managed to get enough of a phone signal to call John Murray, our Madison photographer at the event who told me he had arrived at the event alone.



Okay.



Meanwhile, business continues as usual in the background. WAY-background. Of course , questions I could normally answer, things I would usually do remain undone. It is a darn good thing I set up an out-of-office auto reply. I wonder if it went anywhere, or if anyone read it.

Tours, photographers, later, rental cars , now, uploads, Ruth, when, refunds, Dennis, adjustments, Melynda, hotels, how, return receipts, flights, John, downloads, Kennedy, hot wings, -21 below, why.



Finally, two signal bars on the screen while I am kneeling in the lobby at a coffee table .



It's Bill Gates' world, we just work in it.


Amen.

Obeoman

steven.stearns@obeo.com

CALLING ALL WISCONSIN BLOGGERS, OR WANNABEBLOGGERS!

...or wannabebloggers!

I am working on a blogger meet-up - date in November to be determined -

-location likely to be in Ft. Atkinson, between Madison and Milwaukee;

-anyone who is currently blogging or wants to learn about blogging;

-Agents, brokers, independents,-ALL ARE WELCOME!

The idea is to get together, talk the blog,

have a nosh and maybe bend an elbow and make a friend or two!

If you are interested, leave a comment or email me directly at

steven.stearns@obeo.com

Let's get together and have some fun!

Obeoman

steven.stearns@obeo.com